Where is the summer going?

My husband worked for years in the BC wilderness with chain saws. They are extremely dangerous in the hands of amateurs. And you should be wearing the complete complement of safety equipment including the chaffs (sp???) for the legs.

Unfortunately too many young testosterone-driven men forget - splicing through your thigh is not condusive for your health - and in the middle of the wilderness, getting to the hospital involves bushwacking a landing spot for helicopters . . . .

Or something even more valuable than the thigh - would solve the testosterone drive though.

Eeek! What awful stories pirl. What happened to you that you had to go to the hospital twice?

Harper

The first time from trying to cut through long established beds of Japanese irises, the second a horrid kidney stone attack from not drinking any liquids the day of the garden tour and then 83 sessions of physical therapy when I dug up, then replanted many, many, many daylilies and injured the nerves in my left arm. Glad I'm a rightie!

Wow - 83 sessions! You could have had your mail forwarded there. I hope it helped!

Ouch Arlene! That's the most dedicated gardening I've heard yet!

You should have seen how good looking Peter, the PT, was....probably still is!

Jack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shhhhhhhh!

Guess that explains why a two week therapy prescription mysteriously turned into 83 sessions.

Oooo, Peter the PT. I think I twisted my ankle Peter!

Can Peter do anything for osteoarthritis? I've had some good looking physical therapists also (tennis elbow - from piano not tennis, plantar fasciitis, neck & back, after trigger finger surgery)!! Help, my body is falling apart!!!!! But they usually caused to much pain for me to get too excitied about their looks!! I have weekly appts. at the chiropractor to keep my back and neck moving. An Old Lady :-(

Victor is almost right. The sessions went on with no major improvement so they were extended for another 3 months at 3 times a week. It's better but ........ maybe just a few more visits might help.

Harper - I'll post Peter's photo as he helped someone with their hurting ankle.

Grammy - I know the feeling. I feel older than I did even yesterday!

Gee - I am not dedicated enough to warrant Peter the PT's attention :-(

Ah! The back rubs, the massages, the tender care......... worth digging more daylilies!

Pirl - you have good taste!! Eleanor (Hope Jack isn't reading this thread)

Who PAYS for 83 sessions of PT? I wish I had your insurance.

x, C

I paid a minimal amount for each visit. It could have gone on at great length with more testing, etc. but I've had enough years of tests with Trigeminal Neuralgia and once that operation was over and the pain was history I knew I'd be forever grateful and I am.

Eleanor - he was as sweet as could be. Now working on his Doctorate.

Gee, according to another thread, if Peter gets his doctorate his usefulness will decline immensely . . . . better injure yourself and line-up now, ladies (just in case he has to work his way through college) lol

His hands are his magic, Seandor.

Hey! I like magic!

OMG pirl that whole episode just cracked me up!!! I really needed that and I can only imagine that Jack would be laughing his head off too LOL

I remember one time I went for a massage...it was my first time and here I thought I had scheduled a half hour back massage. Anyhow this cute-hello-do-me kind of guy walks in and asks me to strip down! LOL He says..."you have me for a FULL half hour - what do you want me to message?" Okay my mouth drops open and I am like hmmm haaa hummm!!! I just scheduled for a back message LOL. He says a back massage it is but now thinking back I think I wanted more LOL LOL

Oh, my knees are weak. Magic hands. Handsome sweetheart. I think I'm feeling faint....

I don't blame you for wanting more Dawn!

yeah ok but don't forget dumb me only though of this AFTER the fact LOL

You can always go back...

everyday...

Some cold water for this thread!!

I'm kind of glad I missed a couple of days here LOL It's fun to read right thru. You guys are somethin' else...I don't know what, but somethin' else!!! Made my morning!! I need a massage, some PT from Peter, I am going to Michaela's for dinner and taking up her hobby AND I will stay away from chain saws.

Actually, we had a chain saw incident. Our elderly neighbor had a huge maple behind his garage that we and our next-door neighbor were always afraid would someday fall on us. We got his permission to remove some limbs (these were probably 40' long). We had the chainsaw, n-d neighbor was a teacher off for the summer, and was a young fella, so he offered to climb the tree. Long story short, large gash in his thigh (I wasn't home and didn't have to see any of this), trip to ER, many stitches, lousy summer for nice neighbor. Stupid men.

I don't have a gruesome chainsaw story, but when they cut down our big trees out back (especially the oak) I watched a young man scale up and down trees with an running (idleing - can't spell it, but you know what I mean) chainsaw hanging from his belt. When the big limbs went down the tree would sway back and forth cause they were tied to the trunk of the tree!! I didn't get any pics of him up there but my neighbor did. It was amazing to watch him. He was so graceful and agile he didn't even make me nervous and I can't manage to stay upright while I'm walking. Eleanor

Jan - don't indict ALL men!! I'm smart enough to stay away from chainsaws! See-saws are more my speed. Eleanor, you're correct. I watched my guys last year. One was like a monkey jumping from limb to limb. It was amazing.

Yes - professional tree people are terrific - we had them remove 6 trees from our yard - and DH knows how to use a chain saw, but removing trees without taking out the neighbours garage is a real skill.

And there were two very nimble young men climbing through the branches, doing the limbing.

Our tree guy is terrific but one day, after the saw was switched off, some glitch had it spin a few more times right into his thigh. Not here, thankfully. He did go to ER and wouldn't take anything but morphine and Novocaine while they stitched him up.

I apologize, men. Victor, you seem a little touchy. Too many put-downs on the male minority around here? we should behave ourselves. I was truly only referring to the men in the story :-)

Blondes are notoriously described as dumb but seldom male blondes.

Ha ha, Jan. I wasn't taking it personally - just standing up for the gender. We're greatly outnumbered here!

True Pirl. Actually I like dumb blondes.

Good morning everyone. Oh, it's not morning anymore. Slept 'till 11:30... just finishing my coffee and now I feel like going back to sleep. Why doesn't coffee wake me up like it does everyone else? (Yawn).... anyway, after reading about chainsaws, I think I'm going to give mine away! I've never used it anyway.

It's Wednesday Harper! Wow, how long do you sleep?!!

It's not Wednesday!!! Sheesh, don't trick me like that. I sleep A LOT!

My DH sleeps more than anyone I've ever known. but then, when he's awake, he works harder than anyone I know.

Carrie

I can't even say that...

But you do work hard at sleeping, no?