Instead of running to the doctor for every achy pain, I sometimes wait until Mr. Blackburn says something like, “Sweetheart, I really think we need to take you to see the doctor.” Waiting a little too long to tend to something persistent is how I recently ended up in the ER, where I gratefully received three well-placed, miraculously effective injections into my neck (one into the splenius capitis, and two into a couple of different locations in the upper trapezius). If I hadn’t waite ...