Healing and Family Pics

Hey Y'all!! Welcome back to our slow garden channel. Starting fresh over 40!
No pain no gain... boo
This year has been lots of cutting down trees and cleaning up trees. Finally got a front yard area fenced in, then got right back to work picking up those last 5 trees that were cut to make way for the fence line up until...
I threw my back out pretty bad while I was cutting logs with Eric. Bent over a chainsaw standing on uneven ground, managed to catch a nerve in my back and pulled a muscle. It totally took me out. Had to walk bent over and limping all the way back in the house. Had to get on the floor and roll this one out and do some targeted at home physical therapy, just to try to get upright again.
I have been in similar position before. Lack of proper practice and exercise on a regular basis building up my foundation... that has fallen to the wayside once again.
This lack of selfcare started when we moved into the camper few years back while I had basically a torn rotator cuff/subscapularis and thus began my slow physical decline also it was covid times. I slipped and fell right after we sold our house in town. I stayed in the camper the whole time with the dogs and watched Eric do it all pretty much by himself. Not much to do in there but cook and eat, plus we were packed to the gills with necessities to live through the winter. Good thing we had a big camper!!
Yoga works.
Had to figure this one out without the help of a physician since my Dr. basically told me to find a recliner to crawl into and do nothing on a bunch of pain killers. A month on them/and the couch, I was tired of just laying around and still had so much pain! I did some digging and decided to go get on the floor and roll around after I found some physical therapy and yoga videos to target the issue. Saw the chiropractor who helped verify I needed PT and what the muscle names are that I should work on. I figured it out with help of my chiropractor, within a week or two I was more upright than I was the whole month before. I then bought a 1-year unlimited pass at my local yoga studio and loved every session. Got to the point if there was a day I didn't go my body actually craved it.
Sooooo, I knew what I had to do for this injury already, get to stretching and back on that yoga mat. I did, and it helped a lot. I am grateful for my chiropractor and wonderful yoga instructors helping me find good stretches and good daily routine. I must get back to that regularly.
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#patience & #hope - hope we can get it all in the ground and start to enjoy it before our bodies are completely broken.
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Fallen behind for a few reasons, between injury and deaths, working to keep these videos coming out in order and be able to look back, as our lives, and the yard change, and the garden progresses.6.23
I'm excited for what is to come. We only have so much room to start planting at this time- without putting it all in harm's way with all the tree felling still needed. So many trees down, yet so many to go.
Hoping to have a few more upcoming videos while I have some down time this season.
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Thank you, friends, new and old for coming over for a visit.
Skal and Blessings to you and yours!!