Re: whimp, whimp, whimper . . .

I don't know about that back2life. I'm a little suspicious of ads that
don't show the price on the front page. It looks interesting, though.

--
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"d'huit" <threecedars1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"kelly" <kelly.e1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A big hard hug Kate (I can do that virtually and not hurt you). You have
mastered so much this year and I am glad to see you can see the good this
week - that is hard when so much is going wrong and especially as a
gardener
in this lovely weather (I assume it is finally nice there too).

*** the good weather is finally just begining to make an appearance. i
miss
the connection i feel to growing things when my body permits me to be
gaia,
in microcosm, in my yards.

Can you get to a physio and see if it is referred pain from your hips?
The
spasming is a clue for me. This is what keeps happening and although I
feel
it in my lower back when the physio manipulates and applies ultrasound to
my
hips that fixes it a lot. Not all but a lot.

***hmmm . . . interesting. i hadn't considered hips being the source
problem, because my spine is such an incovenient mess. i have been
seriously thinking about getting one of those back2life (refer to:
getback2life.com) to see if that helps. i'm still not sure about using my
inversion table yet, even though my ortho said ok. i keep thinking i have
one leg a full inch shorter than the other (my femur bone has been
whittled
down by multiple surgeries), which just happens to be the broken-leg leg
and
i'm not sure he remembered that. and i keep thinking the ankle clamps
might
do a lot of pulling from the top of that foot near where the fibula is
broken at my ankle. i'm not sure it's wise to try it, until i know the
fibula is healed.

In the meantime, at trader joes (if you can get the guys to buy it for you
when they are out) they have the best pre grated mixture of asiago,
mozerella and I can't remember whatelse. I have been buying presliced
mushrooms which I am sure people look at me like I am nuts but there it
is,
jars of marinated sliced peppers which are yummy. You are ahead with your
dough (I need to find some of that). As for how much energy does it
take??
Too much some times.

***sigh . . . "too much some times" is sadly right. my mushrooms were
already sliced -- so you and i both are looked at that way.<smile> i love
asiago on and in lots and lots and lots of things. but on a pesto pizza i
love fresh mozerella and ricotta cheeses, when i have my druthers. it was
mainly slicing the fresh bells and marinated artichokes that did me in. i
agree with you about marinated sliced peppers. you ever try taking
marinated (in oil) sliced red peppers sauteed with just a touch of garlic
and olive oil, then tossing them with pasta? totally yummy for an
extreemly
simple sidedish. as for the pizza dough, just go to the pizza restaurant
where you like their crust the most and buy a couple of balls of dough.
vince's (whose dough starter is something like 50 years old -- the very
best
around here.) raw dough for one medium pizza is only one dollar. saves
me
a lot of work and tastes better than any pizza dough i can make from
scratch. most italian restaurants will sell their raw pizza dough.

Have a good cry, give yourself a hug, remind yourself that the ground is
still too cold anyhow, ask for help or hire someone (I am going to do some
of that this week - there is a company here called doggy doo which will
pick
up doo in the yard, change litter boxes and cart it all away - and I am
finally going to sign up. More about that another time). And a hug - yes
low back pain does radiate and boy does it hurt. A huge hug. And a
couple
of pieces of dark chocolate that I am going to buy this afternoon.

***my nephew is coming over tomorrow to build a little 12 foot
stone-rimmed
raised bed for me. i sooo feel like planting beans (already have the
metal
trellises and seeds though i know it's too early to plant them yet) for
some
inexplicable reason. maybe because they are almost instant gratification
the
way they bolt from the ground so quickly. and i want to put in (but i'll
have ed do that for me) an asparagus trench this year, in front of the
stone
wall, near the stone steps that broke my fall last june.

I wish I was close to you. I could sit and watch the yard and laugh with
you until we both cried. Maybe we could hire a couple of great looking
cabana boys to clean our yards and vaccuum and such......sigh I can see
them
now. we could sit in our chairs with our margaritas or hot rums or just
our
demerol and ogle.

***i wish you were close to me too. it's would be lovely to sit on the
patio with you. we could even feed the squirrels or birds or raccoons if
you'd like. maybe we'd get lucky and a doe and her fawn would show
themselves. last year her very young buck returned and walked right up
onto
my patio and held my cats enthralled on their window sill perches. i'll
hire a tanned and taut pool man in cut-offs, just to pretend he's working.
i don't need a pool to hire one, do i? i'm told i make good mararitas and
vodka martinis (though i don't drink martinis.LOL) if you can make a
decent
pot of coffee, i've got bailey's for coffee royals.

Such is the way of the gimp life. We cry, feel sorry for our self, get
angry, tell ourselves all we can do, laugh, relax and probably start
again.
In the meantime we have all these friends that will give us hugs.

***thank you for understanding, kelly.

hugs back,
kate

Another hug,

Kelly in BC

"d'huit" <threecedars1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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sigh . . .

can't rake my yards, can't use a spade to dig a hole, can't hoe, can't
weed
whack, can't use my riding mower, can't vaccuum, can't sweep with a push
broom or regular broom, can't mop the floors, can't shop anywhere without
a
motorized cart, can't walk a city block, can't stand in a line to wait
for
anything, can't stand on a pier to fish (sob), can't ride a bicycle.
can't.
can't. can't.

and last night i discovered i can't even stand long enough to make a damn
pizza (well, two pizzas; one to freeze) at home, even when i buy the
pizza
dough already made from my favorite pizza restaurant. come onnnn! how
long
does it take to slice bell peppers, artichokes, soft mozzarella cheese
and
to open a jar of pesto and spread it on the soft dough (that all you had
to
do was grab at its edges and let gravity stretch it -- all of a maybe a
minute.) and top with the sliced stuff?

gees, what a "backache"! got so bad, from just that tiny effort, even
sitting down didn't relieve it a bit. since when does low back pain
radiate
around to the front of you hips?--the debilitating low back pain is
familiar, but going to the front of my hips isn't and it's hellacious.
naturally, you can add back spasms to that crapola. and i think the back
pain even gave me a headache last night from trying to cope with it.
took
pain pills. gave up and went to bed and just tried to melt away into the
mattress. . . .and i'm still feeling it, today, from making those
pizzas
last night. this is just ridiculous! grrrrrr . . .

plus, i tink i haba code or hallurgies flarewing and i haba stuffy nodes.
i'm cranky. tink i need a hug.

i already had xrays on my low back done. doc said it must be referred
pain,
from someplace else in my deteriorating spine, cuz she didn't see
anything
in the xrays to account for the drop me to my knees pain.

i can type, can watch tv, can drive, can shop with a motorized cart, can
use
a swivel sweeper, can pet and lub my kitties, can (though barely make it
through it) clean their litter boxes, can use paper plates and eat lean
cuisine<g>, can read, can oil paint, can write, can go to the mailbox in
my
car, can use a telephone, can shower, can dress myself, can tie my shoes
(but usually only when they come untied, cuz i slip them on already
tied<g>), can do my research, can still design stuff, can laugh, can
feel,
oh cooooool! i can enjoy the raccoon that just snuck onto my patio right
this minute! soooo big and pretty. i can do lots of stuff! can. can.
can.
just counting my blessings. but somehow my eyes are leaking anyhow.
just
gave myself a hug while coughing my head off.

kate






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