Jacob Lund / Adobe Stock traffic: entering through one door and exiting through another. Palpating, soft-tissue release, and inserting acu-puncture needles became increasingly different while using gloves. Back at home I began taking novel approaches in teaching my son aca-demics. He was learning addition with numbers 10 and under – so I started teaching him how to play blackjack (am I a bad parent?), and before long he knew how to add... and to always split eights and double down on 11. After school brought walks with my family which included Nitro our dog. By the beginning of April, I erected a badminton net in the backyard and my son and I played daily. For the first time in my life I baked cupcakes with the kids -and then an actual cake. I continued to deviate from the school curriculum (after all I was the teacher) so my kids and I did science experi-ments. We mixed vinegar and baking soda and filled a balloon with the product of the reaction (CO2). We made an egg turn to “bouncy rubber,” we bent water using a ballon, and we crushed pop cans by learning how to manipulate atmospheric pressure. Clearly, I was going out of my mind. When I was in work mode at home I taught weekly webinars and wrote six articles for this publication and an-other commercial magazine. I learned how I could do a live narration of my pre-recorded clinical webinars so I could provide more educational value to my students. By this time safety restrictions became even stricter in my office. Everyone who entered the building, patients included, wore masks. From the information availa-ble, the only thing anyone was sure about was that they were not sure. I felt that taking these extra precautions alleviated some anxiety from the al-ready angst acute patient. Bedtime rituals became pretty pre-dictable. I read my daughter the bed-time story 101 Dalmations -sixty-four straight nights. Ironically this led me to learning how to mix the occasional alcoholic beverage for my wife and I. For the first time I made an Amaretto Sour. I also routinely concocted a cranberry vodka martini with red and Now we will not even think twice white cranberry juice (I had no idea it about taking 2-3 weeks vacation. Re-came in white!). And amazingly my member that time you took 64 days coffee machine told me I made 184 off? Tough times don’t last but tough cappuccinos in 64 days. people do. Look for the silver What did my business This was, and linings in your practice. For mind learn from this? This was and will remain to will remain to instance, our palpation skills be a difficult time. However, if be a difficult will become extremely well we survived this -our business time. However, developed. The mechanore-can survive anything. As a if we survived ceptors in our fingertips and hands will become height-practice owner for 18 years, I this, our ened due to the months of always made it a point to set business money aside into a business can survive wearing protective gloves. The next time we take this savings account. Mutual anything. much time off of work we’ll funds, RRSP, tax-free savings plans are all good too. Make sure to probably be retired. Before this: I focus on saving because that proverbial never tried magic, or science experi-ments. I never went for walks on 64 rainy day will come. Before the pandemic, the most va-consecutive days. In this work stop-cation I ever took was 12 days in a row. page I played badminton daily, I was a blackjack dealer, a bartender, a ANTHONY LOMBARDI, DC, is a private consultant to athletes in the NFL, CFL and NHL, and founder of the baker, and a first-grade teacher. It is Hamilton Back Clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic. He teaches his fundamental EXSTORE Assessment System true what they say: life is stranger than and practice building workshops to various health professionals. For more information, visit www.exstore.ca. fiction. Stay safe. June 2020 Chiropractic and Naturopathic Doctor 13 www.Cndoctor.ca
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