A Salutary Tale

Don't overlook the obvious!

A man complained to his GP about a horrible pain which started at his knee, travelled up his side and into his neck. The GP prescribed a series of pain-killers, but eventually had to refer him to a Neurologist.

The Neurologist performed a laminectomy, but pain still started in the knee, travelled up his side and into his neck.

Half-crippled, he was now sent to an Oncologist who diagnosed Pancoost's Syndrome, performed an operation for lung cancer, prescribed cytotoxic drugs and a series of radiation treatments.

The patient was now a respiratory cripple, nauseous all the time and bald, but still had a pain which started in the knee, travelled up his side and into his neck. Further more he hadn't been given long to live.

In despair, he consulted an Osteopath, who twisted every joint in his body, and started up new pains in places where previously there weren't even places.

Finally, the patient saw a Spinal Touch Practitioner, who sympathised about the pain in the knee, which travelled up his side and into his neck, but could offer no solution, as he didn't really have any distortion when measured at the plumbline and he didn't have long to live. His advice was to put his affaires in order, make peace with the people he needed to make peace with, and to make the most of the time that was left to him.

"I've always wanted a really good suit," decided the patient, and so off to Moss Bros for the most expensive material and best fitting available. After six hours of attentive cutting and fitting the tailor asked the patient, "Which side does Sir, er, dress?" He coughed discreetly. "I've never thought about it," he mused. "Does it matter?" "Oh yes," declared the scandalised tailor, "because if I cut the trousers wrongly, you'll get a dreadful pain in your knee, that travels up your side and into your neck ......"