“Why didn’t anyone tell me I looked like the Hunchback of Notre Dame?”
One day this past Christmas season, I was sitting next to a friend of mine’s son, who had been complaining for the last four or five months of rib pain and chest pain.
His parents were really worried about him.
He had been given two inhalers by two different doctors, thinking that his lungs were creating the rib pain.
That didn’t seem to make a difference.
He likes to ride his bike, and is currently studying abroad.
As I sat next to him, he leaned forward, and I poked him in the middle of his back and said, “Is this tight?”
He about jumped up off the couch!
He turned to me and said, “Yes, that’s really sore and really tight.”
I sneakily took a picture of him candidly while he was grabbing a snack, and I also took a picture of his dad talking with my husband.
Then I did another thing I like to do: quickly whipped together a little collage (pictured above) and showed it to him.
That is when he said, “Why didn’t anyone tell me I looked like the Hunchback of Notre Dame?”
He and I did one little workout session before he left to go back to school.
This is what he wrote me 2 weeks later:
“I just wanted to update you that I’ve been doing a lot better. The exercises have made a huge difference. I also have a posture corrector that I’m going to start wearing semi-regularly. :)”
If you’re curious about one of the things I had him do, here’s a link to me doing the exercise at home. It’s a bit of an advanced exercise.
Here’s to balance strength and happiness, and yay for not being a Hunchback!
Happy FriYAY!
🙂 Laura
