Imagine this year after garden clean-up, being free from muscle pain.
It’s that time of year, where we are all getting out the heavy gardening equipment and heading to those untended patches where we will dig, clean and plant. Unfortunately, this event leads to inevitable muscle pulls and pains that last for at least a week. I am as much a sucker as the next person for digging up garden beds, and have always paid a severe price.
After three days of rain and drizzle, the garden ground on my property was soft enough to dig up. Weeds were hip high and all sort of nasty things were setting long roots into the earth. So, as the Garden Avenger, I went out and started digging and pulling out all those freeloaders. After three hours into the job, pulling up some grasses, I felt it. It was a big nasty rip, accompanied by a sharp and intense pain of right shoulder pain. Thanks heavens the kids weren’t around, since my language was rather colorful. However, I still had to finish weeding that area, and continued in spite of the pain.
Later that day, the pain was relentless. Finally I broke down and asked my husband to rub some Elixer Arnica Sports RubTM. You would think that I’d be smart enough to take my own medicine, but no, I really had to make sure that I did truly injure my right shoulder. Well, Warren massaged the cream into my right shoulder and slowly the pain started subsiding. By dinner time, I forgot about my garden injury. In fact I forgot to have Warren rub some more before I went to bed.
The next morning I got up and no right shoulder pain. But I’ve got little aches everywhere else from yesterday’s digging. So a few more rubs of Elixer and I’m good to get back in the garden and finish yesterday’s job.
And how are your gardens doing? Your thoughts appreciated…..Nadine
