Preparing for Another Growing Season

I haven’t started my garden because our weather did not cooperate. Finally, it’s warm enough for me to start planning my garden. I don’t grow a typical garden because I can not dig in the ground; it takes too much out of me. I grow tomatoes and green peppers in big pots on my wheelchair ramp. Putting them on the ramp allows to me access my pots in my wheelchair. The hose is on our porch to make it easier for me to water my garden. I love watching all the plants grow each day. I grow my entire garden organically because it’s healthier for my family. My daughter helps me with the organic pest control. We grow tomatoes and green peppers every year. Last year, we tried to grow brussel sprouts, but I planted them in small pots. I usually save some of the green peppers and tomatoes for the winter months. Growing a garden saves me money on groceries because a green peppers are two to three dollars each. I love to put green peppers in stir fry’s and garden salads. I even love to eat them uncooked with salad dressing. Gardening can be very therapeutic for someone dealing with a chronic illness because it gives you a sense of accomplishment. These things are especially helpful when you live in constant pain everyday. It’s nice seeing the wonderful things in nature everyday during the warm months. I don’t like the winter much because the pain is worse. We are going to pick up the vegetables to grow next week.

Music Monday: Bryan Adams:This Time

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The Ins and Out of Womanhood

Having a teenage daughter, I have enlightened her about all obstacles of growing up. We had the typical Mother-Daughter talks about the facts of being a woman. As she’s got older we have a lot of talks about the real world. I have found that some of the talks are easier and some are harder. Trying to explain things without her being scared of the real world has been difficult as she’s a high anxiety teenager. One of the hardest things to explain to her why woman have hair on their legs, but we have to shave them. Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but that’s one of her biggest concerns. She doesn’t like to have even one hair on her legs. She’s at that age that the smallest things seem like the end of the world. Finally, I told her about getting permanent hair removal when she gets older is an option. I explained that she should check into all her options prior to having any optional procedure done. I did look it up myself and found some good information about it online about it feeling like a small sting on the skin which is good because she doesn’t cope with pain well. That probably goes back to having a Mom who lives with chronic pain. I did explain to her that it would take multiple times to remove all the hair. This seems to give her some piece of mind until the next teenage saga and trust me their will be many more.

Music Monday: Hold On by Wilson Phillps

As those who visit me for Music Monday I like the group Wilson Phillps. Happy Music Monday

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Happy Memorial Day To All

I would like to take this time to salute all the veterans out there with a Happy Memorial Day. Thanks for all your service work. To all those over seas and at home I wish you a blessed Memorial Day Weekend. Enjoy Yourself, but most of all stay safe. Thank you to all the family members that support their soldiers overseas and at home.

Happy Memorial Day to Everyone Else

Music Monday:Janet Jackson

Here’s a little blast from the past.

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First Year of Living with Pain

I can still remember the first year I had fibromyalgia before the lupus was diagnosis I felt like I was losing my mind. It took a long time for my doctor to listen to me that my pain was real and I finally had to beg him to give me something for the pain. I told him it was getting to the point that I could not stand the pain while working and it was interfering with my life. He was apprehensive to give me something at first, but he finally caved and gave me tramadol for my pain. I was able to learn what you should know about tramadol drug online because I wanted to still be able to function at work. I looked up all the side effects and if I would be able to take the medication without falling asleep. When I was on the medication I was not able to buy tramadol blue book . When I was taking it they only had the brand name, but since then they have a generic it’s cheaper and more people can afford to buy the medication on a budget. It was not an easy year to find out I had to deal with this pain every single day of my life. It wasn’t much longer that I learned that I had lupus.

Keeping My Fingers Crossed

Tomorrow, I am going to a new neurologist that I’ve had to wait for two month to see. I hope that she’s worth seeing. I sure do miss my old neurologist, he was a great doctor. Its ashame when good doctors leave. I am crossing my fingers that I won’t be dealing with another quack because I’ve had my fair share of them. The 100 questions I’ve had to answer on the patient questionare are crazy. The biggest problem is the amount of space they give you to explain everything. And a last note I hope that my pain level will be better tommorow I’ve been going throught hell with the pain.