Having a feel

My house faces one of Kansas City's beautiful urban parks. I love my "front yard." I belong to "The Friends of Gillham Park," a non-profit service organization. One of our activities is to gather on the last Saturday morning each month to help give the park an extra spruce-up, picking up trash that sometimes gets missed by typical maintenance. (I also love this part - having my neighbors and friends help me take care of my "front yard.")



This last Saturday, as I grabbed my trash bag and started cleaning up, I noticed something. I was bending over and picking up little pieces of paper, glass, leftovers from car wrecks, like a young man - the man I felt like 10 to 15 years ago. That's different than the man I felt like a couple of months ago - when I was feeling like an old man, not a young man. Very simply, it didn't hurt, I didn't feel stiff and "old," every time I stopped over.



Why is this significant? This was day 51 of Vivix. I've had chronic pain in my hips, legs, and back for more than 15 years. I've spent thousands and thousands of dollars seeking help from physicians, dieticians, chiropractors, acupuncturists, Chinese medicine practitioners, massage therapists, reflexologists, allergy elimination therapists, psychologists, every woo-woo-ist you can imagine (including some religion-based helpers of mankind), all kinds of juices, supplements, and methods. I've learned a lot about myself and other people. When I started taking Vivix 51 days ago, I started noticing a difference in the pain. However, it has always been cyclicle, and I knew that I might be experiencing a low-pain fluctuation. To be fair, I would need 60 to 90 days to know if there really was a difference. There is. I can easily say (and I'm being conservative here), that my overall pain has been reduced 25 to 30 percent. Maybe it's been reduced 50% - pain is a hard thing to quantify - especially when we have a tendency to forget about past experiences with it (thank goodness for our sanity).



The pain still exists. It still fluctuates. I have good moments and not-so-good moments, fun days and not-so-fun days. But I know I feel a lot better - and I feel like a much younger man. And oh, by the way, my increase in stamina is still remarkable to me.