Ouch! Hope you make the speediest recovery ever. Just listen to the doc and don't try to do too much too soon.

Come on over here...we're having a cold, dry, windy spring. It's rotten. That way, you won't feel so bad!

Sorry to hear that Hope you recover quickly and aren't in too much pain. This might not make you feel any better,but alot of the woody plants I planted in the fall took better than the spring for some reason. Sarah

Last year, I severely bruised my knee on March 26 and in spite of therapy and exercise was unable to kneel until quite recently (I tripped while walking our Seeing Eye puppy--talk about no good deed going unrewarded). I did almost no weeding last year, and the lawn made some severe inroads into the perennial beds. Thank god, I was able to bend over and pull norway maple seedlings from the miniwoodland--that's an absolute necessity. However, I'm OK this year, and I quickly took care of the two years' lawn incursion in only a couple of evenings. So I know it's frustrating, but you'll heal, and your garden will survive.

That sucks! My first instinct is to help but if youÂre located near Philly that puts me about 2-3 hours away. I really don't need to add to my to-do list anyway. I'm already helping my parents landscape and I'm in the midst of creating and maintaining acres of woodland gardens around my house.
A few years back while working maintenance at a greenhouse I tore the tendons in my ankle. I had just put a 50 lb. bag of dirt over each shoulder to take into the greenhouse (something I did several times a day) when as I turned around my foot slid off the skid, turned sideways, and my ankle hit the ground. I shudder just thinking about it. The doctor was great and understood that I didn't intend to let healing get in the way of my gardening. He gave me this super tight lace up cast like thing that completely kept my ankle from moving and swelling. It was awesome. For weeks I walked funny like I had a peg leg but I could still do anything I wanted. All doctors should be so understanding of their patients passions.

Well, the shoulder is back to about 80% but the wrist took a beating too, and that is healing slower. I've been pulling all the garlic mstard left handed and took a couple of days completely off, as difficult as that was - I did enjoy having the whole day to watch the birds, though, even if I couldn't lift the binocs very well!