I know there are many of you who are so tired of waking in the morning in the same pain you went to bed with. or hurting more when you lay dlown. I have gotten where i just hate to lay dow because my hip and back hurt worse then. weird isn't it.
yet as i sit here complaining about paipn i can think of so many others who are worse off than me. others who are hurting so bad that they pray to die for relief.
i am diabetic with arthritis in both hips and legs along with the nerve damagew. i just get so angry when all i want to do is plant a 10 ft row of something in the garden and the pain is so bad that i can hardly stand much less walk or bend. well i guess i have complained enough but i just wanted to know i am no alone in this mess.
Pain, don't you just it
Hi jcf, I am here and we are not alone! I've had rheumatoid arthritis about 50 yrs most of my life.It has played havoc with my bones. dwarfed me, sent me to a motor chair, gone through multiple surgeries, but by golly, I still try to beat it,I do what I can and leave the rest to God..Been blessed with good supportive family and friends.This past year when I realy became active in this place, I have gained so much. I read,type, research ,make lots of lists and keep busy. helps to hide the pain. but unlike you I hurt so bad after a while, I have to rest a couple of hours. Then it's right bach here for another therapy session. why don't you visit the prayer forum. It is a sacred, healing compassionate, site!you'll see me there often.Helping others helps me :)
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No need to go there if you're busy, ladies, I will bring it to you. I pray here and now for your pain to ease, for your burdens to lighten, for your hearts to sing with a lightness you will carry with you all day. I pray for your chores to be finished with half the effort you expected them to take, and your rest to be ten times as effective and healing. I pray for your joints to be loose and agile, and for your muscles to be strong and enduring. Most of all, I pray for you to be blessed with an endless supply of friends who will carry your bags of manure and peat and mulch to the proper spot and spread them when it's too difficult for you to do it yourself. Lastly, I pray that you always have flowers in your life.
thanks aimeem and i do visit the prayer forum most every day.
YES AIMEE ! So nice to see you every where I go, and know I am blessed to have someone who is thinking enough to pray. It means a lot to me,more than you'll ever know!
hey guys ,I just read your posts an was touched to find
that you are still here,I think the hardest thing this
spring has been the pain of trying to plant my seeds.
AND yes jfc the pain of trying to find a way to get
settled in bed to be able to go to sleep and waking
up so stiff and in pain .But seeing and hearing others
stories makes it a little easiers to keep PLANTING an
most of all coming here to DG'S ,knowing there are
friends like sweetie [[AIMEE]] praying an pulling for you.
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I've lurked in this forum for a very, very long time. When I first became disabled I lost my speech, could not even remember how to dress myself or do the simple things in life. The second phase was anger, why me and why at this stage in my life. I kept foucssing on what I used to be able to do..so fruitful, so accomplished, making great strides in life. After 2 and a half years of specialists trying to find medications that would work for me, finally I started to get better.
Now 2 years later, I constantly remind myself how lucky I am in comparison to what I was like before-almost a vegetable, listless and lifeless. The only thing I could remember was how I loved to garden and how it made me feel so close to the spiritual, next to nature, each person creating their own serenity, their own private space. I started growing plants from seeds, since I was then on a disability pension. I felt exillerated each time a sprout came up and made plans on where to put these little darlings in my garden. Before I knew it I had found my real passion in life and I began to rejoice on being able to fulfill this passion each and everyday and how fortunate I was to be able to do this.
I've also had arthritis since I was a young child and it came in spurts that would come and go. As I get older it gets worse, but I still make myself get out and about.
The best therapy for me is to keep busy so my joints don't get stiff. Although some nights I don't get any sleep from the pain, I do get up in the morning and start afresh, leave the agony behind. Each night I think of a blessing and focus on that at the end of the day. A plan the next days activities, dow what I can, take a rest when needed and marvel and what I have accomplished for the day and not what is not done. Positive thoughts however difficult they are at times keeps me going.
Joydie
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thanks herblady, we may be disabled or poor, but at least we have food and are not in the midst of living in an area where bombs are dropped on us daily...we do have much to be thankful for.
Joydie
Amen Joydie. Hope you are all painfree today . The cold rain is not good for joints as you all know and we have had it for three days and now a little lite snow flurries now and then. Spring delayed her coming. I made up my mind today to just do fifteen minutes at a time of whatever i do and then sit for fifteen thats the only way I can et the things done I need to get done i guess. I went to town to look at Lowes flowers and trees but walking on concrete just makes me unable to get around well for three or four days. But I can drive and enjoy what I see through the windows in other peoples gardens and yards.
Marclay,
this is so true. On rough days I use my walker and just go down the block and turn around and come back home. Its so nice to see all the flowers coming into bloom. I know days in advance when its going to rain, but I now look at those days as not having to water any garden plants or the lawn.
I'm having raised beds put in this year for my vegetables and I'm growing my tomatoes and peppers in big 5 gallon buckets. I bought a hammock 2 years ago and its still sitting in the bag. This year its finally going up and I'm going to have my afternoon nap outdoors and soak up some warmth underneath the Olive tree.
joydie
yippppppeeeeeee u go girl,,,,,lol [[[[nana]]]]
Nana,
thanks. LOL.
Joydie