Today I felt armed and ready to fight the inflammation going on inside my body. To live with any pain is not an option I want to live with. Last night I was carrying a couple of cold drinks up to my daughter and caught the stairs wrong, in a huge effort to save the drinks, my left arm (bad arm) came down naturally to try and break my fall, while the other arm tried to save the drinks from spilling.
An enormous wave of pain shot down my left arm (bad arm), I dropped one drink and managed to keep the second one standing. All I could to to recover was walk quickly around the house in circles with my arm limp at my side, walk it off, walk it off, walk if off. It took a few minutes to begin to calm down. And it did.
Waking this morning, I set out to pick myself up some natural anti-oxidants/anti-inflammatories from Vitamin Shoppe. I posted what I picked up in the previous post.
They say how you feel is a direct result of what you eat, so today I focused on juicing and drinking alkaline. Drank as much as I could drink; alkaline water, alkaline water with pHour Salts.
About 6pm I fixed my girls dinner and ate a vegetable kabob with juice.
To help with underlying pain, I took 2 Tart Cherry Extract capsules.
Then took an epsom salt bath.
Hydrotherapy is a known secret to faster recovery, so I put my huge garden tub to good use:
I stretched my bad arm and my good arm as it floated and relaxed in the epsom salts.
Then just before bed, I began using my new infared heating pad from Sharper Image. The magic of in- fared!!
Result: I feel less pain than yesterday! That's progress!
Summary: I really like the hydrotherapy version of exercising, working that bad arm is no fun on the wall or counter. Less stress, less pain. Hydrotherapy seems to produce greater range of movement I think! Least is feels that way tonight!
An enormous wave of pain shot down my left arm (bad arm), I dropped one drink and managed to keep the second one standing. All I could to to recover was walk quickly around the house in circles with my arm limp at my side, walk it off, walk it off, walk if off. It took a few minutes to begin to calm down. And it did.
Waking this morning, I set out to pick myself up some natural anti-oxidants/anti-inflammatories from Vitamin Shoppe. I posted what I picked up in the previous post.
They say how you feel is a direct result of what you eat, so today I focused on juicing and drinking alkaline. Drank as much as I could drink; alkaline water, alkaline water with pHour Salts.
About 6pm I fixed my girls dinner and ate a vegetable kabob with juice.
To help with underlying pain, I took 2 Tart Cherry Extract capsules.
Then took an epsom salt bath.
Hydrotherapy is a known secret to faster recovery, so I put my huge garden tub to good use:
I stretched my bad arm and my good arm as it floated and relaxed in the epsom salts.
Then just before bed, I began using my new infared heating pad from Sharper Image. The magic of in- fared!!
Result: I feel less pain than yesterday! That's progress!
Summary: I really like the hydrotherapy version of exercising, working that bad arm is no fun on the wall or counter. Less stress, less pain. Hydrotherapy seems to produce greater range of movement I think! Least is feels that way tonight!
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