Feels Good Feelin' Good!

For those of you who listen to Shannon and me every morning you know I love playing golf and do so on a regular basis when the weathers warm. I even make 2-3 pilgrimages a year to Florida or Vegas to get some golf in during the winter. You also probably know that all of this has come at a price. I, like you have a sore or stiff back on occasion. But not anymore!

During the last year I have given myself the gift of going to a chiropractor, Dr. CJ. He's got me fixed up, and I feel better than I've felt in many years. I go in about every 2-3 months, get tuned up and I'm good to go! Golf, yard work, getting out of chairs, it's all good. I had an appointment this morning and I was all geeked up to go. That got me thinking, who gets geeked up to go to the doctor? But when I go, I leave the office feeling really great!

You can't really say that about any other doctor by-and-large. You go to the dentist. He starts in with the sword or whatever that thing is, picking, grinding, jabbing....what the heck is with that? And keep in mind, what's the first thing a dentist always says,"You should never pick your teeth a sharp object." I'm down with that....why does HE do it? Then it's the goop on the spinning brush deal that tastes like, well you know. Then the x-raying inserts that make you feel like there's a Fedex box in your mouth. The whole visit is just lovely.

Can't say that about the regular Doctor either. You go in for a hangnail, and the next thing you know your clothes are off, and something cold and sterile is begin put somewhere on or in your body, (and the places vary) that is either uncomfortable or just flat out embarrassing! Always seems too that they end up doing something that seems to us regular folk that has nothing to do with your problem. And don't you know THAT is always the fun part. And the people in and out of the room?? Please!

Then there are the various specialists and yearly tests and procedures, you know the ones I'm talking about. And I can't think of a ONE that I'm really fired up to go to. But Dr. CJ? I go in feeling good, and come out feeling even better. Funny, when your spine doesn't look like Mr. Salty, and mine did for along time I'm guessing, things are just better!

All joking aside, this is on my mind a lot this week. A great friend of almost 30 years is having back surgery next week, and things are going to be fine but he still has to deal with it. I don't envy him. He is part of the official Dew-Sweeper Tour. Four of us life-long friends that are lucky enough to be the first to tee off every Sunday morning in the summer at various courses in Northeast Ohio.

Good luck Joe Red! Get better and no, you don't get any strokes!