Accessible Gardening: My garden's a tight space..., 0 by 1gardengram

1gardengram wrote:
Carrie,
I had to wait to write to you until I could do it without crying. Your story above and how you relate the pain you are so constantly just broke my heart. You suffer so much. To be curled in a ball screaming DON'T TOUCH ME just is so sad. I would give anything to have your life change and the pain just go away, or even be cut down to 50% or 10%--anything that would give you some relief

It is precious to me that the three of us can just understand each other. Different ages, different life situations, different problems--all tied together because of our pain. I feel so blessed and honored to be friends with the two of you.

I will be having surgery again on the 10th of July. It will begin at 7:30 am and end about 4:30 pm. I'll be asleep so I don't care how long they take. There is one place we have fixed in two of the previous surgeries that is completely blown out this time. The bones are fine; it's the cartilage between the bones that is causing all the trouble. So the neurosurgeon is going to remove that disc material and let the two bones fuse themselves together. It may cause a little bit of change in my movement, but that's OK. I might learn to do that robot dance. Whadda' think? Can you get this picture?

The second area is a "critical" narrowing of a section of my lumbar spine that is above where we have worked before. It will be like a roto-rooter job where they just ream out the bad material and give the spine back it's original space. We could not see that space on the MRIs, but it sure shows up clearly on the myelogram. That should take care of the pain in my lower back and parts of my legs.

I'll be in the hospital for 5 or 6 days and maybe in Rehab for a few days after that, although I've already gone through their routine, so probably not. Timing things in this family is a mess. Everyone is so busy and then I keep having surgery and adding to their loads. But what I go through is nothing compared to what you live with every day. There is hope for my pain to get better. Hasn't happened so far, but there is hope.

Carrie--If you still have some Moonbeam Coreopsis that needs a home, I'd love to have it. They are one of my favorite plants and I know right where I could put it. If it already found a home, it's OK.

Dorothie--I have Golden Tiara, Stained Glass and June. The Golden Tiara I bought several years ago, planted it in a shaded bed next to the front door, and it has spread and grown over time. That first couple of years, I just ignored it because it wasn't doing anything. Well, I didn't really ignore it obviously, but it's so pretty now and all in bloom. I have Blue Cadet next to it that could be moved forward more as it is so much smaller (see how dumb I was up until last year--well maybe more recently than that even) and then I would have room for one more larger hosta. I was thinking I would just put something else in that space available, but that would hide the beautiful blue one. I have some really pretty ones out in the back that I think would be very happy in there. I was really happy with the Golden Tiara and it made me feel so important. I had something with a name!!!

doss--Your pictures of your irises are just stunning. I still want that Devonshire Cream beauty, but there is clothed in Glory, Man About Town, What's Up--well you get the picture. Even though they are finished blooming, I'll tack on some pictures of mine from this year. Of course the tags got mixed up thanks to a helper person, and they did not all bloom this year as they are new, but I've kept the tags and sooner or later they will all be re-IDd. Feel free to jump in if I have the names wrong. I'll not be insulted at all!!

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