I worked on a client today that really frustrates me. She keeps doing things that make it harder for me to help her.
Over the last couple of years, I have worked on this lady that suffers from RSD (regional Sympathetic Dystrophy), a chronic pain disease. She sees a pain doctor who along with giving her drugs does surgery to stop the pain. The problem is that in the surgery, he cuts nerves in her back. The problem with doing this is that nerves grow back. A couple of times, she has told me that the doctor said he can not keep doing it because the nerves grow back fractured. It does stop the pain, but it always comes back as bad as it was initially.
The work I have done has helped her a lot, yet she does not come in very often, maybe once every six months. And in between, she sees her doctor and has surgery. It is very frustrating. The surgery creates more scar tissue which cause more constricted fascia (connective tissue) which causes her pain. It has now gotten to the point that Myofascial Release (MFR), the primary method I use, probably can’t help her anymore.
I finally told her that I would do regular massage or Reiki, but I can no longer help her for her pain problems. She keeps doing things that make it more impossible for me to help. Everything I do is undone by her doctor cutting nerves. And now she is complaining because she can not work and her health insurance is running out.
I guess I just have to accept that she will do what she does, and that it is now beyond my ability to help her. But it is damned frustrating.