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One of THOSE weeks.... again....

Last week (well, really the last 10 days or so) was one of those weeks.  I think it started when I went to physiotherapy and she had a student in with her.  She wanted to try some new things, even though (according to her) my eyes were black and I looked terrible.  Sure, I thought, let's try something else. It wasn't much.  Really.  A few stretches on my feet, 3 stretches on each side of my neck and a thing that was supposed to work on my 'starle reflexes'.  I warned her that if she startled me I would start to tremor and sure enough, 2 flashes of her fingers over my closed eyes and I was shaking away.  "Oh, look, she was right, she is shaking, that is so neat".  Right.  Neat.  You tremor for 15 mins or 30 or up to a few hours, with stuttering and funny breathing and muscles tensing up even more and then you laugh.  Then came the needles for another 30 minutes.  I must have been extra tense because so many of them hurt t...