Good afternoon gardeners. My tomato plants are all doing very well and I will need to stake them soon. After all my tomatoes were planted I decided to add some sweet peppers and zukes. I have had very limited success in growing zukes or any other type of squash. But I keep trying.
I thought I would follow up on the report of my first visit to the VA clinic that I made in last weeks gardening thread.
My local VA clinic sent me the results from my first visit to the local VA clinic. It is a six-page letter detailing all of the blood work results plus the X-ray results of my right hip. I have some mild osteoarthritis in my hip and they are to schedule me for a MRI. My blood panel tests indicate that I have a low B-12 level and need to have monthly B-12 injections. I am being sent the B-12 and needles in the mail. I am instructed to bring the B-12 and needles to the Clinic so a nurse can give me the injection. All my cholesterol levels are normal and very good. I was offered medication for my hip pain during this visit, which I declined at that time. I have changed my mind and have decided to see if the medication will help. Over all I guess I am in fairly good health except for the right hip problem.
Sorry for the deviation from gardening discussions.
That’s fine. Keep us updated on your status, and the VA performance.
I also have had hip problems and pain during the past few years. I found that a heated rice sock really helped, and allowed me to get by without heavy duty painkillers.
Rice socks are easy to make. Just get a really long tube sock. Take a big bag of rice and fill the sock up about 3/4 of the way.
Then tie a knot in the end. Put in Microwave for aabout a min. It will smell like rice for a week or so, but then it will stop smelling. Sometimes I have several going at once.
Put it on any joint that bothers you. It’s a really good neck support which is another place where I have some pains.
Walmart sells a moist pad with “beads” that feels really super too and it heats up in the micro wave, but gives you a moist heat. My mother’s doctor advised moist heat for her osteo arthritis.
I also read in my alternative medicine books that the increased heat will bring the body’s own healing elements to that area and help your own system to work better.
Hope you get to feeling better.
Suckeroos when your all not feeling well. prayers of health and wellness for all of our WGT FReeps who are illin’ out there....
Appreciate every single one.... Thanks Vets too.
Did they offer you Celebrex for the arthritis or tramadol for orthopedic pain? Both may help greatly if your arthritis is mild.
Oddly, here in Mo when weather is dryer, my garden does better. I have 6 volunteer squash plants that have come up on the edge of my compost pile and are setting fruit. Garden is great this year.