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—Standing for longer than 20 or 30 minutes pinches a nerve and causes pain which gets worse the longer I stand.—

Don’t punish yourself like that. I have big trouble just walking and standing hurts worse than walking does. I time my trips into town (grocery, Lowes, Wally) during low store traffic hours, like 7am. You may not be able to do that, but at least ride in a handicap scooter or something, don’t hurt your self. Nerve and orthopedic pain can be very serious, but I know you know that.

Yeh, I know it. Usually I just send hubby to store. Sometimes, though I just have to go, and I always get interested in stuff and then bam, it hits me, and I get in line.

Interestingly enough there is some evidence that working out with weights helps. I tried it a few years ago, and was able to go for an hour and half before getting the bad pain. However, then I got had some bad spells, and got away from excercising.

I am getting more energy now, so soon I will be working out with the weights again, Doc said to take it easy for a while, so probably gonna start after my next checkup.

I hadn't been to the doctor in a year so I was getting calls from his office to come in for a checkup. I checked all my meds to see what I needed to have him write a new scrip for and I was going to get an allergy pill since I sneeze for a day after I've been in the garden - I am allergic to anything that grows. Years ago, I gave myself shots in my leg and finally stopped that and stayed inside.

So, I went to the doctor. I put two Stevia leaves in a little plastic bag and labeled it. When I told him why I needed the allergy pills, I told him about the garden, that I had a container garden because plants died in the ground. Told him about net room, and gave him the bag. I thought he was going to kiss me over those two Stevia leaves. He just went bonkers about the net room as every time his wife's lemon tree has a lemon on it, a squirrel gets it. Told him just put a net over it, don't need a whole room for one plant.

Told him I had about 40 strawberry plants that should have strawberries in the spring and I have carrots and turnips and sweet potatoes growing. He was so excited, I thought he was going to go look at my container garden.

I wasn't expecting him to react like that. He said he could grow in containers, too, that he hadn't thought of it.

In between gardening talk, he did the prescriptions. Really, I wouldn't be surprised if he called me to talk more about container gardening.

One never knows what will happen when you go to the doctor.

As I was waiting to see him, there was a screen that kept changing showing the various doctors pictures there and their specialty and when his picture/name came up, it said he was elected the best physician in the county. I can tell you why that happened - he's the best looking doctor I ever saw.