Beautiful Door
I had to go to the hosipital last week for an ultrasound, x-ray and finally a cortisone injection in my shoulder —it had been aching for ages and making me lose sleep, as it’s the shoulder on the side I sleep on.
While I was waiting, I admired this automatic sliding glass door — they could have made it in plain frosted glass, to keep the entry to the treatment area private, but instead they gave us this little bit of beauty — eucalyptus leaves and blossoms.
The injection worked, and I’ve had a few good nights of sleep. Thank you hospital people.
Hello Anne! I am so very sorry to hear about the shoulder. If you have a myofascial massage specialist in your area, you might try massage. The fascia get kinked from poor body mechanics or trauma and that can lead to chronic issues. I greatly admire western medicine but MDs don’t have many tools to heal soft tissue problems. i actually came to your blog to ask if you have any need for an administrative volunteer. I am retired and dead bored. I love your writing and would be happy to do some minor website updates or PR work if… Read more »
Thanks for your concern, Annie, but I tried massage, physiotherapy and targeted exercise before going the hospital route. As for your very kind offer of help, I’m not looking for an assistant at present. I like to do my own thing. I do know that there are parts of my website that need updating, but they’re not urgent and I’ll get to them eventually. As for the blog title bar, the top Blog that turns colored when the cursor is over it is the link to the current blog, whereas underneath that, where it says blog archive it’s a link… Read more »
Hope the cortisone works for a long time, Anne! But what a joy to see that door – something beautiful to think about when one is probably anxious about treatment!
Thanks, Constance — so do I. And I was a bit anxious about the injection, as a friend who’d had the same thing in a different city told me it was horribly painful. But it wasn’t at all. I just sat in the comfortable waiting area, reading and glancing up every now and then at the beautiful door.
That is lovely, and no doubt gives good vibes to whoever walks through and sees it. Glad the injection worked.
Thanks, Malvina — yes, it’s a lovely and calming sight, and so much nicer than a plain clinical frosted glass door.