What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

I'm sorry, SBurnt got me really good, lol! 'Course I never buy coffee from there anyway. Tea drinker.

Lots of news... not much garden though. Okra are done. I'm going to yank them in the next couple of days.

We're closing on 10.28! acres Tuesday (survey good, boundary marked). Shouldn't need a well permit with those numbers.

My dad is in the hospital with pneumonia. Dang it. Caused by swallow problems. Surgery looming for him.

Guess life has to balance the good news out?

CONGRATS!! How exciting! & best wishes for your Dad.

Dammit i forgot the garlic AGAIN. I hate this mental fog I got going on lately. Hopefully this shot in the neck fixes the pain and I can start thinking and getting around better than I have been the last month. I really need a full day to do JUST garden stuff... oh who am I kidding, I need a friggin week and id still be 2 weeks behind.

Getting old sucks, getting a shot IN the neck bone sucks harder, they have to put it right under the artificial disk/flapper/kanuten slapper thingie dingie in there holding my melon sized head on top of my shoulders, which means thru the cartlidge or whatever the call it between 2 vertebrea, and then a very intense pressure like pain wave as the shot goes in. Your eyes water and you see stars, and you do it twice because they have to shoot it on each side, but hopefully if it works, in a few days, I will be in a lot less pain hopefully for another 6 months or so which is how long the last one lasted.
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I just got out of the docs - I'm having disk replacement surgery Dec 5th - hopefully no more spinal shots for me! Can you tell me what you had done there?

I found a recipe for a pumpkin jam. Now if I can just find some pumpkins I’m going to try it!

OMG that sounds SO good! I'm a pumpkin freak. Would you care to share (the recipe, not the jam, lol)? & you must be tired, sanding floors is hard work. Nice job, it's looking great!

Morning all. I took the day off today, back is hurting too much to face work. But as I said, I finally have surgery booked & I can't wait. We're starting with 1 disk with the possibility of doing 2 more in the future. He thinks he can guarantee me 50% less pain but is hoping for 85 with the 1 replacement. If not we'll do the other 2.

I pulled in the driveway & I can't tell the difference between driveway & lawn because all the oaks dumped their leaves! I love it, I love fall. DH is going to have his work cut out for him this weekend.

 

[Ascholten]

Sueby, that is an artificial disc they place into your neck. It's an easier procedure and is often times an option over having a spinal fusion done. It's much less 'destructive' and you are actually 100 percent right after the surgery, just sore for a little bit afterwards.

Now of course with ANY surgery of that type there is no guarantee it will work for you, and being what you done, it puts more pressure on the discs / spinal area etc around the 'procedure' and can cause them to rupture / give out / have issues over time as well.

Me, I had a spinal compression injury in the Navy, and well, 30 plus years later it's manifesting itself as artificial neck flappers, fusion in the lower back, and another one the way here unfortunately it may be looking like.

If you only need ONE, Id seriously consider the artificial disc in the cervical if you can get it, if you are an candidate. It's a much better procedure and they are having very good success with it.

If you are getting the fusion, you WILL be sore as hell for at least 4 weeks. Probably not useable really until 8 weeks or more. In total honestly, my back took about a year before it was 'really' back to where i could work normal again, ie lift 100 lbs and climb a ladder with it etc etc like I was before the surgery. they'll let you back to work at 8 weeks but you can get yourself in trouble real fast if you are not careful. I didn't learn the first time and i actually got caught in a bad place twice and had to call for help to come get me out because of my back wasn't quite fully healed yet.

Aaron

Edit let me add, the artificial disc works in the neck, it did not work very well in the lumbar area and afaik they don't offer them for lower back anymore, because it really did not do well.

 

[WthrLady]

Saw Pumpkin Jam at the Mennonite Market yesterday.
Also Toe Jam and Frog Jelly. LOL. (fruit blend jam and jelly)
Name just cracks me up.

HOWLING winds again, shocker for here, right?
blessed rains coming and may a quick snow on Saturday

 

[Paz]

I just got out of the docs - I'm having disk replacement surgery Dec 5th - hopefully no more spinal shots for me! Can you tell me what you had done there?.
Morning all. I took the day off today, back is hurting too much to face work. But as I said, I finally have surgery booked & I can't wait. We're starting with 1 disk with the possibility of doing 2 more in the future. He thinks he can guarantee me 50% less pain but is hoping for 85 with the 1 replacement. If not we'll do the other 2.

I pulled in the driveway & I can't tell the difference between driveway & lawn because all the oaks dumped their leaves! I love it, I love fall. DH is going to have his work cut out for him this weekend.

Did you try going to a "bagel macher"? My father went to this weird ex KGB chiropractor who was a back fixer, they called him the "Bagel Macher" and I bet you have a few of them in the USA.
He basically breaks your back again and reasabmles it. He also fixed my mother's heel spur. He worked on pretty much the entire village.

 

[TJAnonymous]

or worse, linolium on that pristine wood floor. or that sticky back carpet squares :/

Funny but I doubt it. Wood floors are quite the rage now

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have old style wood floors in here 1939 original wood floors.
Need to get in gear do them.

 

[Sally PB]

It was another gorgeous day. Still pecking away on garden stuff. I got a couple of beds weeded, so those pests don't get to overwinter and get started early next season.

If I'd known how warm it was going to stay this late in the season, I wouldn't have pulled up my tomato plants. I could have covered them on the cold nights easily enough. My neighbor picked tomatoes yesterday -- November 2 -- from her garden.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We let the rain shower pass brought in all four brussle sprouts. Last is the tub I am now using to ripen tomato before the light goes on sprouts.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Supposed to get some bad storms tomorrow evening along with an inch and a half of rain. The week has gone by so fast and I hardly got anything done. I managed to get the blueberry transplanted but not the new thornless blackberries or raspberry I picked up. Didn't get the trees transplanted either.

I noticed that the loofah I was drying had started to rot. It took me forever but I peeled and cleaned 8 or 9 of them. Lots of bad spots in half of them due to the unexpected moldiness. I still have 5 or 6 I'm trying to dry and another 5 or 6 I'm drying on the vine.

 

[jerryse]

Picked up and hulled 2 buckets of walnuts . We have had beautiful weather . Wind advisory today and rain coming later today . Going to make beef jerky . Need to check my supply of ingredients . Have not made any in about a year .