Updates....good news actually!

[gimmethesimplelife]

I just wanted to post an update here. Thanks to expanded Medicaid, I have been able to start physical therapy and I have to say it's really helping. I have a greater range of movement and I don't dread getting up like I have been - it's not quite as difficult. Chalk me up as an ObamaCare success story - without this more than likely I would have ended out living on painkillers as an illegal alien in Mexico. No drama at all there - just reality. I'm very grateful I am not going to have to face that reality now and I will also keep up with the home exercises to keep progressing.

Still looking into getting a different mattress.....have not had time to get to that hotel furniture liquidator for a used sleep number bed. On the list.

Picked the rest of the oranges in my yard and am taking them along with soaps and shampoos collected from my Motel 6/Super 8 stays over the years and am taking them down to a homeless shelter along with some clothes I will honestly never wear. I'm doing something - something anyway - to give back. Also will ask about working up to eight hours a week as a volunteer, I know there is a food bank downtown that could probably use me.

And last - tomorrow I'm digging up my first beets and I'm so excited! I'll be taking pics and if there is somewhere here I can upload them (?) I will be glad to do so. That would be so cool if us gardeners could upload pics of our success! Rob

[Selah]

All great news and good things, Rob! Yes, I too finally have access to health care after close to a decade of going without--other than the most rudimentary of care--and it has made such an enormous difference in my life. Literally, the medical care I receive now has saved my life. Good for you, and good for you for being a mensch! :)

[gimmethesimplelife]

All great news and good things, Rob! Yes, I too finally have access to health care after close to a decade of going without--other than the most rudimentary of care--and it has made such an enormous difference in my life. Literally, the medical care I receive now has saved my life. Good for you, and good for you for being a mensch! :)Thanks, Selah! Rob

[Rosemary]

Great that things are working out. It just occurred to me that you started a new garden and then had back pain. Is it possible that overwork in the garden (bending, digging, lifting) triggered the back pain? That has happened to me a couple of times after not doing those things for our 6 months of winter (and it doesn't just go away overnight once triggered). Anyway, something to consider next garden season - start slowly and work into it.

[ToomuchStuff]

Great that things are working out. It just occurred to me that you started a new garden and then had back pain. Is it possible that overwork in the garden (bending, digging, lifting) triggered the back pain? That has happened to me a couple of times after not doing those things for our 6 months of winter (and it doesn't just go away overnight once triggered). Anyway, something to consider next garden season - start slowly and work into it.


Good thing to think about, Also something to ask the physical therapist. (how to get better and improve/not injure self, so you can then do more, which may lead to better able to work that contributes back, etc)
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