Traditional Western Medicine
Narita was a budding champion. Or a budding competitor, at any rate. She had been performing very well in the snowboard downhill races in Australia, and was looking forward to trying her hand overseas. So it was unlucky when she wiped out on her last day in the Australian season, and landed on her back, hard. She took a few days off, swallowed an unadvisable amount of painkillers, and waited for it to wear off. Except it didn't. The 29-hour plane flight to Scotland did nothing to improve her situation. She gritted her teeth and soldiered through, cramped and folded five ways in an airplane seat, and when she got off the plane in Edinburgh she was comprehensively stuffed. Her neck cricked, her back cracked, her shoulders twitched, and her hips made the kind of suspicious and alarming noises more usually associated with elderly people's walking frames in the terminal stages of conditions leading up to drastic and invasive surgery. At the age of 22 she ...