Inger’s Blog

From Acupuncturists Without Borders newsletter:

HAITI PROJECT UPDATE 1/26/2010

We have just gotten news that our first exploratory team to Haiti will be leaving on Wednesday, February 3 for the Dominican Republic. Diana Fried, AWB Executive Director, and Julia Raneri, AWB Haiti Operations Manager and NADA registered trainer, will be going on a private plane with a group of doctors to the DR and going by truck from the DR to Haiti.

The doctors are very much wanting to have us with them, to help them with pain treatments, trauma, acupuncture anesthesia and to help the exhausted responders. They are doing many amputations in the field, and have warned us that it going to be extremely challenging both physically and emotionally. We will be going to rural areas that have not received many, and in some cases any, services and that were destroyed by the earthquake.

This group is generously offering us 2 seats on this flight. They have asked for us to help with gas for the plane. We would like to raise $1,000 immediately that we can give to them to support the flight to Haiti. If you would like to contribute to this important first flight, please click on to this link: http://acuwithoutborders.org/donate_haiti.php

We do not yet know if this where is our ground operations will be based. We have been working hard and around the clock and have been in contact with many organizations and individuals on the ground in Haiti, to find a secure and reliable way that we can set up and send teams. This is a HUGE job, and will take some time for us to get all the pieces we need in place to start sending teams. We hope to have things in place in the coming weeks, and our upcoming trip will be a large step in this direction.

      We are working closely with contacts at orphanages, street clinics,
     Port-au-Prince General Hospital, Dominican Republic Red Cross, and many
     other grass roots organizations and international medical teams.

To those who have written asking about the status, please have patience as we continue to work out details. It is a complex and difficult situation, to say the least. We will be in touch with you as soon as possible once we have details worked out.

We have received close to 200 applications from acupuncturists who want to volunteer in Haiti. Thank you to all who have sent information. We will be getting back to people on an individual basis, via email and in some cases phone, to move our volunteer plans along. As mentioned earlier, our priority will go to those who have been to an AWB training and/or have been in the field volunteering with AWB, and are AWB members.

 CLICK HERE TO DONATE FOR HAITI EMERGENCY RELIEF EFFORT: http://acuwithoutborders.org/donate_haiti.php
(100% of your donation will go to the Haiti program)

—Inger

For the past several months, my Chinese medicine practice has grown steadily. (And my blogging has taken a back seat, so apologies for that.) I have become so busy that treating patients only three days per week is no longer enough time for me to heal my patients and meet their scheduling needs. Something needed to change to accommodate this growth.

For this reason, I am very excited to announce I will be moving my practice to a wonderful new clinic space in Belltown, two blocks south of the Olympic Sculpture Park! The clinic is in a brand-new building with a street-level entrance right on Western Avenue. I will no longer be sharing treatment rooms with other acupuncturists but instead will have two rooms available to me, enabling me to better serve you. I will have my raw herbal and granule pharmacy, as before. This new space allows for far more scheduling opportunities. I can be available more than three days per week and after 5:00pm as needed.

The new address:

Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Center

2701 Western Ave.

Seattle, WA 98121

The building is on the northwest corner of the intersection of Western Avenue and Cedar Street.

My telephone number (206.227.0752), email address (ingerj.lac@gmail.com), and website address (www.ingerjohnson.com) remain the same. The website will be updated shortly with new address information.

I hope to have the opportunity to treat you at my new location. Take care, and here’s to the New Year!

—Inger

Come to the Book Fair at the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine (SIOM) on Wednesday, October 7, 2009, between 11am and 5pm in the break room. Representatives of People’s Medical Publishing House (PMPH), China’s largest medical publisher, will be exhibiting books, charts, and DVDs for sale at discounted prices. We welcome faculty, students, and the general public.

Titles to be exhibited include books on

• Clinical Practice of CM series on specific conditions, including Infertility, COPD, Stroke, and more
• Acupuncture theory and practice textbooks, exam preparation materials, and clinical research
• Chinese Massage Therapy
• DVDs on specialized topics
• Books for the general public on Diabetes, Arthritis, Migraine, Asthma, Endometriosis, and more
• Tibetan Medicine
• Dictionaries and Reference books
• The Illustrated Atlas of Commonly Used Chinese
  Materia Medica (deluxe 3 volume set)
• Wall Charts of Acupuncture Points (body, scalp, ear)

All at 20% discounted prices or more!

The PMPH web page will list detailed information about their products.

The address to SIOM is listed on their web page.

—Inger