The Rents are getting old....
Parent- child interactions, somewhere along the way the role reverses, we the offspring start to take care of them, they may resist at first but after a while they will give in much like we did when we were kids. I was a pretty much a free range kid, she would shush me out the door i would go play for the entire day in the scrubby undergrowths of mesquite and cactus, my mom would call out for lunch, i would either come running or not come back at all until night time, when she would also call out to me. She gave the nick name her "wahalote" mexican spanish for turkey, for the creatures are known go to sleep whereever night time catches them, much like me. But anyway, Kaqimax and I are fortunate to live nearby our parents we talk to them on a weekly basis, her father has been sick this last couple of weeks and just now she was able to wrangle him to go see Genevieve for some acupuncture. She fielded the same situation with her mom a couple of months ago when she had an sinus infection and also went to Genevieve. About a month an half my mom slipped and fell and messed up her shoulder, she didn't tell me about it, after a while she would complain of pains, I was able to finally get it out of her she fell and started to tell her to go see a doctor. Like a good Mexican, she refused to go pay money to see a doctor but I guess since she has no medical insurance it really wasn't an option, she said she would get better on her own but she didn't and after a while I pointed out she was crooked, her left shoulder was higher than her right. She went to see some masseuses to get massage but it would make her muscles relax but did not really resolve her issue, I gave her some Reiki sessions along the way. After while her condition deteriorated until she could only raise her arms as high as McCain, and I pointed it out to her. Every time she would complain about her aches (which she did a lot in the beginning) I would ask her to go to my chiropractor she would always refuse. Finally this week after I told her how she might ended up permanently crooked and painted a future of her being a crooked old lady she gave in. Mind you, as harsh as all of this sounds we have a nice gently jovial approach to this which the Spanish language generally affords. She is stubborn but as soon as she makes a decision she demands action, no sooner she agreed to go wanted an appointment right away, I was able to get her to a Wednesday appointment and escorted her to his office. She brought her roommate with her for support and consolatory reasons I guess, also had pain in her lower back and knee. I helped them fill out the paperwork and actually went in the office with them, it felt strange to coddle her. Ron was charming as always made them feel at ease. It reminded me why I liked going with him, he studied my lower back injury made some comments as how I contributed to my injury but did it in a manner that was empowering, I felt I could get back on track, but it was up to me, not him and I think that did it for me. I had tried another chiropractor the year before, she told me how f*cked up I was and how it would take so many sessions to get things better, she made feel like I had no say in the matter, nothing I could do mattered only she could make me better. After the session, my mom thanked me and will be coming back on Friday on her own, it was hard seeing her grimace as he adjusted her, but it was just as rewarding seeing her relieved and feeling much better, her shoulder was back level once again, I explained this was just the first step in the direction, muscles have memories and things could revert back it would be a while before things were back on track once again its up to her to take care of herself. I know in time I will have to do this more often especially as they get older, Kaqimax talked about this and are trying to figure this out, how are y'all going about this inevitable truth?