LIFE CHANGING
Before…read moreseeing Lisa, due to incessant, constant chronic pain, if death were to have come my way - I, honestly, might have seen it as a relief.
The day I walked into Lisa's business about a year ago, I was a completely different person. I was 53 years-old, yet I walked like an elderly person. I had a large dowager's hump and could not stand straight. I was 50 lbs. heavier. And though I had so many things for which I was grateful, quietly, my pain made me miserable. The worst part was I had completely lost hope that I would EVER feel better. (Why would this small woman help me, when years and years of physical therapy, specialists, surgeons, neck, spinal and sacrum injections, and countless medications hadn't?)
I had a constant chronic headache since 1986 (every second of every day). I'd get debilitating migraines on top of the constant headache pain. In 2008, I was in a really bad car accident (a truck came through my side of the car and, essentially, through me - completely twisting my pelvis and sacrum.) Afterwards, I ended up dragging my left leg for nearly three years. The physical trauma of the accident activated dormant fibromyalgia. So, not only was I dealing with the constant head and back issues, but every single joint in my body hurt. My body felt like a giant bruise. Then, in 2020, I got Covid, which led to Long Covid, and it greatly intensified the fibromyalgia inflammation.
Through the years, I still tried to remain active, and would push myself to do physical activities (like renovating our home). But often, I'd find myself holding back tears. And if I did physical work during the day, I'd pay for it by being in excruciating pain all night.
Despite my high tolerance for pain (living with chronic pain will do that for you), my first visit with Lisa was probably one of the most physically painful experiences of my life. (She told me later she thought I would never return.) Well, thankfully I did. With every visit, she has expertly and diligently been working away at the countless years of built-up inflammation and dangerous, blood-restricting knots.
Every person (doctors, specialists, etc.) who had previously touched me said I had the worst knots they'd ever touched (especially about my neck and head). Once, a chiropractor even began to cry, and said, "Oh my god, how can you live like this?"
Before, no matter how great something was in my life, my pain was always forefront in my brain. It was like trying to enjoy a beautiful painting through smudged, scratched, broken glasses ... in the dark ... in the fog. Now, I can actually enjoy my life. I can be more present for my husband, his kids, our dog, and my friends. I can actually enjoy vacations. I am now able to do physical work all day long, and instead of my back being in constant pain, I am actually kind of surprised if something hurts. I still have a slight headache, but I remind myself that Lisa is working through 38 years worth of garbage in my body. I never thought I'd find ANY relief, whatsoever, for my headache. I now can stand completely straight. I no longer have an unsightly, painful dowager's hump. And I've lost 50 lbs. (I believe this is not only due to my ability to increase physical activity, but due to Lisa working so much inflammation out of my body. She actually works up a sweat while working on me.)
If you suffer from pain, and are lucky enough to get an appointment with her, DO IT. And while you're lying there on the table, experiencing the searing pain caused by her freakishly strong hands, ask yourself, "Okay, would I rather go through this ONE HOUR of pain - or be in pain for the REST of my LIFE?"
I'll take an hour of pain any day.
In addition to her years of experience and expert deep tissue massages, Lisa is, hands-down, one of the best humans I've ever met. She's incredibly honest, caring, often hilarious, and hard working. She gives everyone her all. There is absolutely no doubt she feels that her true calling on this earth is to help others.
She is a true healer - in every sense of the word.
I can't even think of a proper way to express my gratitude.
I now actually have hope that one day (soon even) I'll be completely pain free.
Finding Lisa has been life changing. Truly life changing.
