My therapist
friend said that phrase in a tone of voice that implied I was sculpting a stone
wheel from a boulder.
I’m writing
holiday cards to my clients, I replied.
Ohh, no, no,
no you will get carpal! she said. Let me show you my toys.
Out whipped
the tablet. With its apps. This one sends appointment reminders automatically,
along with holiday greetings and birthday offers. Au-to-ma-tic, she said, as if
it were a word I have never heard before.
Yup, that’s
me sitting there with my stones knives and bear clubs, sending out cards to
people whom I have been seeing for massages for so long they are like family.
But no, I am modern. My stamps are self-sticking.
I swear it is
not age. We are about the same age, my massage therapist friend and I, and we
have come up through the ranks into developing our own independent practices.
And I still
have an appointment book and pencil. And I send holiday cards. Handwritten.
As my
software engineer client told me one day, those apps. are great. Until all your
data gets stuck somewhere in the cloud.
Bah Humbug!
1 comment:
people says that
"Roland A. Labbe" designed the first application for a massage tools in 1948. Roland's illustration is consisted of a chair that is mounted on a pedestal which is a metal frame included to the back section of the chair. Roland's illustrated the chair to shake continuously in a pattern not like the milk shaker we got nowadays but in the much smother formation and stretch a persons hand along with lags.
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