Hey,

Well apart from all the stuff going on with my eating something else came up about two weeks ago to do with my back problems as a result of my trampolining accident.

I was just about to start having my massage, when my mum asked Sam (the woman who does my back) if I was going to have back ache for the rest of my life. Sam said that it was possible and that it probably wouldn't be a bad idea for me to see a chiropractor and get it sorted properly.

She asked me to stand uo straight against the wall so she could have a look at me, I had to stand there in my underwear whilst she looked at different points on my body. This will probably sound strange but I have always said to my mum that I feel lopsided and heavier on one side, when I looked into the mirror different parts of me always looked out of place.

I have always told my mum this but like any of my other health problems she never took any notice and didn't seem to care.

After being poked and proded for about ten minutes Sam told me that I am lopsided. My ears, my neck, the tops of my shoulders, my shoulder blades, my bottom cheeks, my knees and the backs of my ankles are all out of line. After being poked and proded some more she managed to work out that my right hip is twisting forward causing the rest of me to be all out of line.

She said that when she first started doing my back it wasn't this bad, and that is was obviously getting worse. She also said that it could be quite serious, she had never seen someone as young as me with this problem before. The youngest she had seen was a girl who was 17, they didn't get anything done about it and by 27 she had curvature of the spine and could barely walk. I was quite upset about the whole thing, but also relieved because mum finally had no excuse not to believe what I was saying. Sam actually made her stand behind me and look how out of line I was.

Sam told mum to ring up as soon as possible and book an appointment with the chiropractor. Of course like usual I had to keep asking mum to ring up everyday for over a week. She started getting really annoyed with me about it, and I was begining to think she never actually intended to ring them, which isn't unusual and didn't suprise me the slightest bit. Last week she finally rang them up and made me an appointment for the 18th of June, its going to be really expensive, and my mum has made a point of reminding me of this at every possible oppurtunity.

She winds me up because what did she expect? Have children and not have to pay anything extra if something like this came along? I am really angry with her at the moment, but I wont go into that now.

Sam also told me, when I got about 2 minutes privacy with her that all the parts that are out of line have nerve endings that are connected to the brain and if they are damaged they can actually cause mental/emotional problems or make them worse or harder to deal with.

It was upsetting to find it all out, and to make things worse mum thinks its hilarious to be calling me loppy or twisted whenever she gets the chance, whether we have company or not.

I just hope that I can get it sorted, and that it isn't to serious.

xxxx