We have a pleasant allotment neighbour, his name is Brian and he was there yesterday and after chatting for a while, she asked him about an old plot holder called Jane.
Jane had taken on her plots in 2003 and had spent quite a bit of effort making her beds and growing delicious things but five years ago, she didn't come so often, then she stopped coming and a friend of hers had worked them.
But she had come down one day last summer with Brian and had called out to us, so mama went on to Brian's plot to chat to them.
And got a dreadful shock! For Jane had gained at least four stone (56 lbs - 25.5 kg) and appeared to be in severe pain.
Apparently her right knee had become extremely painful, she was on crutches and this was the reason she had stopped gardening.
Fast forward to yesterday and Brian said, when mama asked how she was, "she's out of hospital now and back home but it was touch and go for a few days", mama said "what on earth was the matter?"
Brian explained that due to the pain in her knee, she had had a knee replacement, however, due to her size and the pain from the operation which still worried her, she had been prescribed pain killers.. namely an NSAID called Ibuphrofen which had eaten through her stomach wall.
A month ago she had been admitted as an emergency at 2am and had been operated on within a very short time!
We have spoken more than once about the dangers of NSAIDs, she never uses pain killing drugs and will be forever grateful to Dr. Michael Greger for his book 'How Not to Die', in which he wrote that a teaspoonful of powdered ginger has the same pain killing power as 400mg of Ibuphrofen without any side effects'.
Poor Jane.. but she is a lesson to all of us who have arthritis.. lying around and taking drugs to kill pain instead of taking exercise to strengthen our muscles, eating good fresh food, not drinking to excess and taking the right sort of supplements which help the body to heal.. can kill you.
In the USA and UK deaths directly attributable to prescribed pain killers are rising. So do not let yourself become a number.
She takes a herbal formula called 'Joint Relief', it is made by Veridean and contains, amongst other things, Boswellia aka Indian Frankinsence, Turmeric, Curcumin, Glucosamine and Omega 3.
Eats a LOT of fresh green vegetables, fish and nuts, we've been known to squabble over a solitary almond, takes a 'fair' amount of exercise and drinks vast mugs of grated ginger, turmeric with pepper! Plus she isn't overweight.
There is a lot you can do to manage pain without resorting to either prescribed or over the counter drugs which can and do cause horrendous damage to your system in more ways than one.
We are off to 'frolic' in sunshine.. we hope that you too enjoy your day.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 24th, 2019.
Jane had taken on her plots in 2003 and had spent quite a bit of effort making her beds and growing delicious things but five years ago, she didn't come so often, then she stopped coming and a friend of hers had worked them.
But she had come down one day last summer with Brian and had called out to us, so mama went on to Brian's plot to chat to them.
And got a dreadful shock! For Jane had gained at least four stone (56 lbs - 25.5 kg) and appeared to be in severe pain.
Apparently her right knee had become extremely painful, she was on crutches and this was the reason she had stopped gardening.
Fast forward to yesterday and Brian said, when mama asked how she was, "she's out of hospital now and back home but it was touch and go for a few days", mama said "what on earth was the matter?"
Brian explained that due to the pain in her knee, she had had a knee replacement, however, due to her size and the pain from the operation which still worried her, she had been prescribed pain killers.. namely an NSAID called Ibuphrofen which had eaten through her stomach wall.
A month ago she had been admitted as an emergency at 2am and had been operated on within a very short time!
We have spoken more than once about the dangers of NSAIDs, she never uses pain killing drugs and will be forever grateful to Dr. Michael Greger for his book 'How Not to Die', in which he wrote that a teaspoonful of powdered ginger has the same pain killing power as 400mg of Ibuphrofen without any side effects'.
Poor Jane.. but she is a lesson to all of us who have arthritis.. lying around and taking drugs to kill pain instead of taking exercise to strengthen our muscles, eating good fresh food, not drinking to excess and taking the right sort of supplements which help the body to heal.. can kill you.
In the USA and UK deaths directly attributable to prescribed pain killers are rising. So do not let yourself become a number.
She takes a herbal formula called 'Joint Relief', it is made by Veridean and contains, amongst other things, Boswellia aka Indian Frankinsence, Turmeric, Curcumin, Glucosamine and Omega 3.
Eats a LOT of fresh green vegetables, fish and nuts, we've been known to squabble over a solitary almond, takes a 'fair' amount of exercise and drinks vast mugs of grated ginger, turmeric with pepper! Plus she isn't overweight.
There is a lot you can do to manage pain without resorting to either prescribed or over the counter drugs which can and do cause horrendous damage to your system in more ways than one.
We are off to 'frolic' in sunshine.. we hope that you too enjoy your day.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 24th, 2019.
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