Dooley Noted: 11/12/16 My husband went to a chiropractor for 2 years before he met me. He was on a very affordable plan, paying $95 a month for weekly adjustments. This cost him $1,140 a year. He asked the doctors many times if there were ways he could get himself out of neck pain. They showed him a few stretches that didn’t really suit his specific needs. So, he thought he would have to see … Read more
Dooley Noted: 11/9/2016 Leahy jumped on my side at 5 AM yesterday. He meowed in my face to feed him, as most cats do. I put my hand to brush him away. He put his up, too – across my face. It wasn’t a tap but a huge gash into my right cheek – nearly hitting my eye. As blood ran down it, I realized how threatened he was – and how not at home … Read more
Dooley Noted: 10/28/2016 Damn it, I’m a mess on this subway. But the gratitude runs so deep that it creates the sympathetic response my body chooses to balance with these parasympathetically-driven tears. I just left Einstein, where the students and faculty make me so excited to go to work every day. I rushed to an Uber, where the amazing driver and I talked about the beauty that is NYC. I chatted with my incredible husband, … Read more
Dooley Noted: 10/26/2016 In Toronto, I had dinner in complete darkness with one of my best friends and my husband. A blind man let us into the room, where not a speck of light shone through to illuminate it. I have never known such darkness. I was reluctant at first to be present, since a day of teaching with a sinus headache had left me a bit disheveled. At first, the darkness made me feel … Read more
Dooley Noted: 10/9/2016 Today, I turned 38. As I spend a glorious day off doing things I adore, I recounted some of the major things I learned at age 37. 1. People who tell you that you can’t have it all actually don’t have it all and are projecting their disdain onto you. 2. Breathing drills are never to be skipped. The breath is all you ever have. All else is … Read more
Dooley Noted: 10/4/2016 Last Sunday, Catalyst SPORT hosted the Breakthrough Strength seminar, which included bending nails and bolts, ripping phone books and cards, and driving nails through boards. You know, a typical Sunday. Chris Rider handed me a 6 inch adjustable wrench, and he told me I was going to bend it in half in front of the class. He said, “It’s just a wrench.” My husband turned to me and … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/29/2016 Formal anatomy instruction might be dying. Curricula are being cut all over the world in the instruction of anatomy to medical doctoral candidates. I’m part of some of these curricula. I’m a hard worker, no doubt. I’m not obsessed with work. But I took every anatomy job handed to me for one big reason: I knew anatomy dissection instruction was a fading pulse. And … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/27/2016 On this day three years ago, my father was celebrating his 72nd birthday. He was going through chemotherapeutic and radiation treatments, making him sicker than he’s ever felt in his life. We watched as he lost his gorgeous head of hair. We watched as he lost his joy for life, clouded by the medication attempting to save his life. Since he had a very aggressive form of … Read more
Dooley Noted: 9/23/2016 I have the honor of being a movement specialist. Something I do first visit, and every subsequent visit, is assess gait. I am fascinated by the ghosts of burden we carry as we move through space. The handbag a lady holds up on her right shoulder? It’s still there in her gait when she puts the bag down. The sprained ankle from junior high basketball? It’s still … Read more
1. Do consider all options to help with your ailments. 2. Don’t assume medications are without consequence. I don’t get cable. So I miss out on those fun lawyers, advertising to help those hurt by medications. The one I saw this morning was for those indigestion sufferers who experienced kidney damage after taking proton pump inhibitors, like Nexium and Prilosec. Your doctor took biochem. You can’t mess with the proton pumps of the stomach without … Read more