The pain of pain relief

Before


During

After

If you are wondering what this is, it's called "cupping", a traditional Chinese method of massage and pain relieve,involving the use of suction cups, to remove excess "bad fluid" from affected areas. Ok, I'll confess, the during picture is an exaggeration of the procedure. The pain on BH's face is real, but it was during massage that it hurt. The cupping itself was not, it was just mildly annoying.

The next question on your mind, is why? Well, BH drives long distance quite a bit, and this leads to poor posture...due in part to a locally manufactured car with poor car seat design and him, having poor posture in general. So, after feeling cheated by a chiropractor ( some guy in BU who touched his back, then charged a consultation fee of RM100), BH swore never to see conmen again. In my opinion, chiropractors are quacks, no offense anneh. We were however, left with a dilemma...what now? Michelle, LM instructor in Cheras recommended Jenny, this lady she sees for massage. Apparently Michelle's husband, Tony, suffers the same problem as BH and has had a lot of relief from Jenny.

Hence the cupping and subsequent crop circle appearance on his legs. Later, his and my whole backs resembled Kansas corn fields. People looking at us probably would have concluded one of the following:

1) He is a wife beater
2) She is a husband abuser
3) They both thought themselves kungfu fighters got into and massive fights
4)Aliens abducted them and with weird sense of humour, decided to replicate their crop circles
on their backs, which means...
5) The aliens are coming!


It was fun while the marks lasted, it felt like there were bruises all over and they were tender. I for one, won't go back, I can't stand the pain...as for BH..well, his back's not a problem at the moment.