A Physical Therapist Told Me
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tripletmom83
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Gardening and Total Knee Replacement
Comments (19)I had my right knee replaced in may of 08,and while the recovery was painful for a few weeks,you can get through it as long as you follow the dr's orders and do all the therapy. HOWEVER,my dr suggested i NOT kneel on that knee,like in the garden etc,so i have this little Ames cart i roll around on to garden,and if i get near a slope or something where it might roll,i just stick one of my small garden tools under the wheel.2 mos after that surgery i was diagnosed with breast cancer,went thru all that surgery,chemo and all and i'm back out iin the yard again. My motto is"you won't know if you can do it,til you try" & where there's a will,there's a way!!! Kathi...See MoreKnee surgery and gardening
Comments (11)Getting a little away from your original question.........But I need knee replacements too, but have chosen not to get them. I'm 66. I haven't been able to get up from a floor position for years! I tripped by myself in the backyard last year, and had to crawl over to a big stick, which helped me get upright. It's strange....but I actually can't tell you why I can't get up. Nothing feels weak.......I just can't get up! lol! Anyhow.....for years I did a lot of trellis gardening, which was great. But the weeds in my fairly big garden got to be just too much leaning over, and painful. So this spring I've gone to 8 Behlen country stock tanks up on cement blocks. I've had a couple of these for a couple years and they work great.........and no leaning over! If I do need to lean over a bit to weed them, I can sit on a garden stool. I still have several trellises for pole beans and cucumbers. I've also invested in some cordless equipment.......like a cordless mower. It has a removable string weed trimmer in it that you can take out of it's wheeled base to use separately. So now, most everything will be up higher and I can just "mow" the garden floor. I love gardening. I can't imagine ever not being able to garden. But......I've learned to do whatever I can to be able to continue it. Yes, I will miss gardening in the ground, but since that's not possible anymore........it's the raised stock tanks for me. YAY! So good luck with your knee replacement and do whatever you can to continue gardening in a way that won't hurt your knee or be painful to you. There's still so many options!...See MoreSkincare after cast help plz!
Comments (29)I just squirt Cetaphil lotion on a hot wrung out washcloth and go to town. Most of the old dead skin comes off that day then I try real hard not to fuss at it but once a day. It's a lot like a peeling sunburn. It needs to go but let it come of when it's ready. Moisturize heavily after and put a thick sock on. When I got the casts off my feet decades ago I was delighted when the calluses came off along with all the old skin so look for that. Ask if you can soak your foot, don't submerge that scar unless you clear it with your medical team. And it happened that a talk show had a segment on how to massage feet that week which was heavenly even if I did it myself....See MoreNovember 2020 Week 2
Comments (63)Danny, I am afraid a bird will get its feet caught in the fiber. I started using hay binding twine some years ago, because it was cheap, and most often free. I would use it to tie the tomatoes to the trellises, or any other task that called for a good strong twine. After a short piece of the binder twine goes through the lawn mower if makes bundle of fiber, which the birds love. I found a bird hanging from one of my blue bird houses. It had gotten its foot tangled in the twine and could not get free. I found it hanging about 10" below the bird house, it was dead by the time I found it. I have tried to keep anything with long fiber picked up . I have had no dealing with the jute fiber before, but I don't want the same thing to happen again. I always have plenty of nesting material without having the long stringy stuff laying around. I have looked on some of the off-shore seed sites, I would like some different kinds of cabbage and greens. It seems that many of them have a milder taste. I am not surprised that the green briar taste good, when I was much younger I liked to hunt around an area that had a lot of green briar and/or honeysuckle. The deer seemed to love both plants. Yes, I am ready for spring, just like every other year. Even though I am in a rush for spring to get here, I seem to always get a late start on the garden. I am going to try to do part of my garden like I did years ago. I will start tilling the area I want early crops in late winter to help dry the soil. I live in a low area and my soil stays too wet too long, so part of my garden will not have a cover crop this year. I would like to try a living mulch this year. Austrian winter peas are what I have in mind, hoping they will die back when the hot weather gets here, leaving the soil shaded....See Moretripletmom83
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