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Monday, September 24, 2007

Acupuncture...real...sham...or both?

Interesting news story about acupuncture--I've heard this before.

I actually get acupuncture every other week for the usual ailment, plus carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis care. One very troublesome aspect of lupus for me is that I get tendonitis very easily, especially in my hands and feet, but have gotten flare-ups elsewhere. The acupuncture helps a lot with pain relief, and that's always a great thing for me. Of course, I do other things to help with the hand and wrist tendonitis, including using hand braces or at least support gloves when I type.

My writing is going well; I'm sending my poetry manuscript off, working on the book (the usual ailment is bothering me a lot, so I am not able to get to it as much as I want to, but I still think I will meet my deadline).

The weather seems to have changed, suddenly and overnight. I discovered a new crop of tomatoes on the vine nevertheless--don't know if they'll ripen before the frost.
My garden is a strange combination of fall and summer, with a new crop of roses about to bloom, some still in bloom, zinnias going crazy with wild color, and sunflowers full of seed heads. In a few weeks, I will be taking it all down, putting the garden to bed for winter. So many spiders wove their webs this year--there's an old saying that if "spiders are many and spinning their webs, the spell will soon be very dry."
But I think that probably applies to the dry summer we just had--a summer that, in retrospect, seemed too short

And not much else to muse on today--I am in the middle of an all-consuming project, so please forgive the narrow nature of these posts.

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