Crepes, Enrique, Coconuts y ‘Crystal Beds’
10 de Marzo
Yesterday mis amigas chillenas, Lorena y Mayita surprised me with a visit and
ingredients for crepes con papaya y mango. Que rico!
We were having a common conversation: where should we live? We both
see San Miguel as kind of temporary. Lor is currently leaning towards Cuzco. We
are both enchanted with Mexico but
the government . . . Lor: Asqueroso! Mayita: Wacala! I have not heard these
words before - to describe anything! Apropos, they come up with un petit masquerade.
Later in the day I'm feeling dizzy so I lie down for awhile and when
that doesn’t work, I take a walk , stopping at the coconut/corn
lady on the corner of Insurgentes y Hidalgo for an agua de coco pick-me-up. I walk on to visit Van at the
bookstore on Hidalgo. By then the dizziness is accompanied by severe headache.
I have a pretty good idea what's going on. Van suggests a blood pressure check next door-it is
as I guess, really high. I walk home and by the time I get there all
symptoms are gone! I look up agua de coco online and find the following:
“Coconut
water is rich in potassium, magnesium and vitamin C. All of these nutrients are
linked to lowering high blood pressure.”
I wake up in the middle of
the night with the same severe symptoms, remember there's a coconut in the fridge, and manage to get up and hack it open. I know I’m not out of the woods I reluctantly make an appointment
with a heart specialist - a friend who also has a heart murmur told me
about him weeks ago and now I’m
off to Mega to buy as many coconuts as I can carry. (except now there’s
wonderful thunder lightening and rain storm raging)
What brought it on? I’ve
been in a little bit denial for years. Meds always make me feel worse. I
usually think I'm as young and healthy as ever though this dear body doesn’t always comply.
Also on the corner of
Insurgentes and Hidalgo is a little Guatemalan tienda and in the back room
there are about ten or so black beds with digitized headboards. Allegedly,
lying on them regularly for 40 minutes at a stretch cures everything from
hernias to cancer and arthritis, there are testimonials on the wall to
‘prove’ it. My friend Katharine and I decide to try them. You lie
down, and Hester(!) the proprietor covers you with a black blanket, turns a
switch on the digital headboard and says she’ll be back in 20 minutes to turn
you over. The bed is supposedly made with magic stones (not plastic which it looks and feels like but she runs a lighter flame along them to prove it.) Spaced
vertically along the bed are large red star shapes (chakra alignment?). Katharine doesn’t feel anything but I
immediately feel a surge of strong energy that iss very intense and not
especially comfortable. We are sure she has left us there longer than the
proscribed 40 minutes. I feel drained
and derailed when it's over but
later in the day I feel a certain high (this is the Friday night of the
concheros) not unlike a drug with the accompanying come down.
I won’t be going back. If you’re curious, here’s a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o4zPLofU3w
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