Wiggle Room

Medical issues can provide situations where we feel we're between a rock and a hard place. What do we do when some of the pain we experience could be helped by certain activities, but those very activities would cause other pain we experience to increase? What do we do when a specific diet would improve our health, but we're allergic to the main components of the diet? These examples may sound farfetched. In fact, they are from real life.

So, what do we do when we're between a rock and a hard place? Search for wiggle room! Perhaps we can't fully do the activities that would really help us. Can we do some modification of them? Can we combine small movements from Qigong, T'ai chi, Yoga, or physical therapy? Maybe we can't get the full results we're looking for, but can we get some?

What do we do when we're allergic to foods that could be beneficial? Research, research, research. The answer may not readily reveal itself. That doesn't mean we won't somehow, in some way be able to address our health issues.

How easy it would be if life were simple! For those of us with chronic pain, life is already a bit more complicated than it would be otherwise. So it's time to be creative. It's time to persist.  And, when we really feel we're caught between a rock and hard place, it's time to wiggle!