ai Chi or not Tai Chi?

Today's Mucusoidal Tissue Report is brought to you by Protonix. Protonix, Son of Prilosec, son of Zantac, goddess of proton pump inhibitors. (Not many goddesses of inhibitions out there, are there?) Yes. Protonix is my new med, a kind of Prilosec on steroids ... no, let not talk steroids, but you get the picture. It's supposed to reduce acidity in the stomach and esophagus, like, totally gangbusters. I await with flaming esophagus -- not to mention eyes, ears, nose, and throat, and I think the lower regions have their own conflagration going on. Seems improved. Let's hope so as last night was rough: me trying to sleep on my back on a slant results in snoring and noisy dreams, which disturbs, if not Katy then Alex who in turn wakes us.

More acupuncture today; was surprisingly sensitive to the needles & not relaxed or soothed as the other day. My philosophy on eastern medicine (based on Chi, as in Tai Chi) is that it's an abstract model, like any other descriptive philosophy, and all models have degrees of accuracy depending on what you try to do with them. Most of us still think of the atom as electrons orbiting a nucleus (if we think of atoms at all which I'm sure we all do). Even though that model is many decades obsolete, it works pretty well for basic chemistry. Works lousy for quantum mechanics, though. We'll see, though. I remain open to the possibility it may help. May also try some sort of Tai Chi, Qi Dong, sort of thing. Failing that, Ding Dongs.