There's a possibility I'm exploring.  Please keep your fingers crossed that it works out.

***

The date that I set my friends up on went well, but no chemistry.  Oh, well.  Better luck next time.

***

About two weeks ago, my back started bothering me.  Everytime I sat down, I'd get pins and needles in my lumbar area, as if my circulation was cut off.  My husband called in a man named Roger.  He's an elderly gentleman who is not quite a masseuse, not quite a physical therapist.  He's one of these people who has an intuitive sense of lamig (literally, cold spots) and bara (literally, blockages).  What he does may be classified as a deep-tissue massage or reflexology with a little folk medicine thrown in. 

The sessions with him can be brutal.  If he detects a problem spot--he feels lumps in your muscles--he will work on it until it disappears.  The process of making the lumps disappear is painful. However, his treatments are amazingly effective.  I don't have the pins and needles anymore.