Massages and a Blind Chinese Man

Sorry for the absence at the end of the Week of Bliss. Not much happening on day 4...until that evening. And that is the reason I didn't blog on day 5 either. You see, I was physically assaulted by a blind chinese man...
So, my loving husband has been telling me I should go get a massage. I've been putting it off, due to the awkwardness the language barrier presents. Blasen's boss, his wife, and the Chinese lady that works in their office came here for some business. So Blasen gets me to go with Nell (the wife) and Li (the co-worker) to get a massage. The place isn't that far from our apartment, so I agree. We get there and Li says she's getting a blind man. I say "Excuse me?". I figure this should be interesting, so I agree to the blind man massage too.
Now, I've had one professional massage in my life (thanks to Rachael and Ben) and it was really nice. Li tells me that this massage will be a little different, as it is more about pressure points and Chinese medicine. Okay. I'm still in. We get in the dimly lit room and there are three table there for the three of us and I think this is going to be even more awkward. Thankfully, there was no removal of clothing, however, I shouldn't have worn jeans.
Our blind men come in and he instructs me to lie on my back and starts with my head. It seems at first to be pretty rough, as I feel his fingers pressing thru my temples. He asks Li if this is good or more pressure. I definitely say enough, we may could even tone it down a bit. So, he continues with my head. It's starting to hurt and I'm thinking this is a joke on me and someone is going to stop it all soon. Once he starts the chopping move on my head and noone stops him, I start thinking this is going to be bad.
I don't know if words can explain what I felt over the next 2 hours...yes TWO hours. I thought it would never end. With each section of my body that he worked on, I thought "it can't be worse than the part before." Sometimes I just wanted to bust out laughing and other times I just wanted to cry. At times he was pushing on me so hard I thought my face was going to get wedged into the hole in the table. It was just painful. How anyone can enjoy this is beyond me! I think this was worse than childbirth...and I've gone thru that twice, with no epidural.
I just had to laugh when I got home and told Blasen about it. And then I took two tylenol and a hot shower before going to bed. The next morning, I could hardly move. I was sore like you had a good work-out the day before, but worse was to actually touch me...especially my lower back and shoulders. It burned like fire if you touched my skin. I actually thought I would bruise, but I didn't. By Friday afternoon, it was getting better. Saturday, I was pretty much back to normal. Now I have a funny story to tell of how I actually paid a blind chinese man to beat the crap out of me.