Well, it is Friday, and we have survived the "gully-washer" rains of this week (~seven inches, 18 cm). The nice thing about the rains is that it keeps me off the steeper slopes, away from bad footing, and away from lifting awkwardly-shaped objects -- all being the challenges of living on a new property which one has carved out of the woods.
The last couple of weeks has been about convalescing an injured knee (which has been giving me problems for four months) and ridding my body of nagging and sometimes debilitating aches. I used PRICE for the knee last week, and I was able to restore mobility with only discomfort remaining (as opposed to pain that makes one gasp). This week I used a tea twice a day of ginger, cinnamon, and turmeric (with a dash of black pepper to help the body absorb the turmeric much quicker) to address the body aches (again, suffering from those for many more months than the knee). The body aches are gone, completely gone. For the first time in months I can move about, get up and down, do whatever I want without feeling like I am shredding a muscle or ten. The tea was AMAZING, and I made it from the spices in our spice rack; no special purchases required.
Two days ago, my left eye felt irritated (I wear contacts). I removed my contacts, but it only seemed to get worse. Yesterday, it was so light sensitivity that daylight on a rainy day (which it was) felt like someone was shining a halogen sealed-beam light into it -- it really hurt! I went to a couple of medical sites to find the best therapy based on my symptoms, and the consensus called for warm compresses. The warm compresses helped in providing comfort, but little progress (comfort is a good thing, though) in healing. I was so pre-occupied with finding some degree of comfort that I had neither coffee (I hand-grind the beans fresh every morning using a 1930s PeDe #3 grinder, and make the coffee in a French Press) nor my spice tea. The eye was a little better by evening, and I decided to make my tea just to complete the body therapy regime I began on Monday. Within an hour, my inflamed eye and eyelid felt much better; so much so that even the tearing had stopped. I went to bed with my left eye feeling 95% normal. It is not ready for contacts, mind you, but it was an unexpected outcome. I will continue the spice tea therapy today knowing it also benefits my eye.
I will be stepping away from the spice tea therapy come Monday ("...it'll be alright..." -- Jimmy Buffett) just to see if it something I need to take every day, or just when the need arises. There are no side-affects for every day use, just the cost of consuming spices (which is not cheap, but at least they are dual-purpose: flavoring and medicinal, unlike drugs I might buy otherwise). Today, I will be lifting and moving 500-600 pounds (230-270 kg) of landscaping flagstone. I will be using a brace on the still-injured knee (the 'P' in PRICE). If I am at roughly at the same point in the healing process as I am right now as I type this, I will also begin light workouts on Monday.
I wish you and your loved ones a great weekend. Take care.
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