California HAPPENINGS
NightLase, Dental Appliance, Ears and Airplane
NightLase® | Let there be Light
The right side of my head responded with deep feelings of relaxation sweeping through not only my head but my body. What a surprise!
The laser was used both in my mouth as well as on the head around the ear…which is normal. But my response was the surprise.
The right side is the ‘tight’ side and it is becoming apparent that there is a major change happening in this tightness.
These two ‘hot’ lasers are much stronger than the ‘cold’ laser I use at home.
The two light frequencies benefit connective tissue. My problem is definitely a ’tissue issue.”
My ENT was at a loss as ‘what to do’ with the nodule he palpated. And thus arrives regenerative medicine to amplify the benefits of ‘structure and function’ medicine – very different than the surgical and pharmacological avenues of help offered by a traditional doctor like my ENT.
The Osteopath | My Ears and My Back
I was surprised when I felt my Osteopath’s fingertips inside my ear canal.
That was different! And what I experienced as she treated my head from
inside my ear canal was mind-boggling. The temporal bone response
seemed very different than when approached from ‘outside’ on the skull.
She kept returning to a statement that was music to my ears:
“I can’t believe how loose your cervical spine is eight weeks after the PRP injections!” Amazing after only one treatment – especially at your age!”
This observation was from experience of many years with PRP with
many patients. And her second observation that the restriction had moved
lower down into my thoracic spine (mid-back) was definitely in agreement
with my Phoenix practitioners.
Recommending another round of Exosomes rather than PRP in my mid back was also surprising…not only to my ears but will be to my pocketbook as well!
Exosomes would help reduce inflammation and accelerate hands-on treatment
in the fascial change healing process.
Dental Dilemmas
800 Microns and Midline Madness
Two Dental Dilemmas for my dentist and one Biomechanical Baffle for my Osteopath.
The first request from the Osteopath for the dentist was adding 800 microns to my second ‘older’ appliance. 400 microns had created much consternation for him – 800 microns was ‘outrageous’! And cutting the device in half?! Another way to make him raise his eyebrows! I even brought him the articulation paper 400 microns thick for adjustment.
I had misplaced this second device in my home for the past four months. Never locating the appliance was infuriating – who knows when I might need this. The night before leaving for San Jose, my hands unexpectedly found the turquoise box that housed the appliance! I promptly put it in my purse. I was wanting to talk my two practitioners into splitting this second mandibular device down the middle. This discovery was perfect timing – meant to be?
800 microns were added to the left side of this second device at my Wednesday appointment. An unexpected ‘no-show’ with the Osteopath had me able to see her to determine which appliance was better. The 800 microns! However, since it had not been adjusted, she wanted to wait until the next day during my regular treatment and start adjustment.
We bantered back and forth over splitting down the midline of a mandibular device. I stated that I had four mandibular appliances that had been split in the past. This made no sense biomechanically to her. I provided a ‘piano teaching’
3-D perspective. Both of my osteopathic physicians graphically demonstrate the ‘torque’ in my head that can be amplified by the appliance when not adjusted – and out it comes. This has happened the last two months, being able to wear the device two days in June and one week in July. My suggestion that splitting the appliance would perhaps allow me to keep the device in my mouth the entire month giving support to the left side while not restricting the ‘tight’ right side left her shaking her head and saying ‘go ahead and try’.
I am most appreciative of these two doctors and their willingness to listen and try different approaches.
As the airplane was about to touch down on the runway, I felt something in the left side of my mouth.
I reached in my mouth and my finger located a piece of what looked like calcified debris.
As the plane bumped down onto the runway, I had this little piece of whatever on my fingertip
trying to put it in my EarPlane® case.
How I did this without dropping it I will never know!
I then located my bottle of formalin preservative in my knitting bag. (I have carried jars of formalin with me for the past three years – preparation for this ‘thing’ that drives me nuts in my tissue to appear in my mouth.)
I successfully managed to get this artifact into the formalin and the top screwed on before we landed.
I was in shock. What made this artifact appear?
The change in air pressure plus the dental change with an appliance reseated,
the NightLase® treatment and the hands on osteopathic treatment were a perfect combination?!?!
I had four glasses of ice tea in the San Jose airport before boarding the airplane and one hot tea on the plane.
I felt there was ‘no food’ in my mouth at all. Plus, this did NOT look like food.
Returning home Thursday evening saw me rushing around on Friday morning and dashing off to my
ENT’s office to drop off my ‘treasure’ from the airplane.
Our ‘portal’ communication is quite astounding. By Monday I had the report back and he has arranged for the MRI to investigate a potential ‘tear’ in Raphe (pterygomandibular raphe)….and trying to arrange the neuroradiologist
who is familiar with my case to read the film. The lab reported ‘vegetable matter’, not calcification; however, this vegetable matter was NOT the recent food I ate at the airport – it had been there quite a while to be solidified.
Will be interesting to see what he has to say….as well as my osteopaths.
My ENT is becoming well versed not only in a structural/functional medical perspective
but also in regenerative medicine – and how to handle ’tissue issues’ that lie in the beyond
of his surgical and medication realm.
This is NOT his orientation.
My bringing together two worlds of medical perspective keeps creeping into my awareness.
Educating doctors seems to be a constant in my appointments.
So, the question remains…
do I follow through with a
BPC peptide injection
into the inferior attachment of Raphe, thereby initiating and stimulating a healing response in my pterygomandibular ‘tendon’?
BPC peptides
are being used frequently.
They are not regulated
by FDA.
My memory of the throat injection
by my oral surgeon in 1998 jumps into my awareness with alarming clarity!
BPC or anesthesia is not the issue –
it’s the location that is
IN THE THROAT.
Would this again act as a memory trigger
of my 1972 anesthetic intubation injury?
My ENT has ordered an MRI with contrast per my Santa Cruz Osteopath’s request;
he is in touch with the neuroradiologist who has read my film before and hopes
to engage her once again.
My Osteopath and I are in agreement in thinking
that we must be very precise
in describing where to look for this tear – this is NOT
a common happening
by any means.
And once again the Waiting Game begins.
Hope and Fear, two sides of ONE coin, have no place in my consciousness…
Only falling into the groundlessness within the Boundless Presence
while waiting into Courage and Knowing…
as the MRI and the interpretation of my ‘airplane treasure’ come into focus.
Waiting