A Mid August Catch Up

[meganwaters2004]

To be honest, I just forget to come here and post. But then I think, I want to say something more than I want to be on facebook. Then I remember livejournal. Sometimes I still talk myself from posting here, then, here I am again

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[toinettec]

Sounds like you were a real trouper in England! :-)

Sympathy on the arthritis. But it's good to have a diagnosis, at least, and I hope the shots help. I'm interested to know how that goes for you.

So I felt the compulsion to google alternative treatments and supplements, because I have a feeling that it's just a matter of time before I'm right there with you, so if you don't feel like you've read enough about osteoarthritis already, here's a very thorough article, including a mention of fish oil for inflammation:
http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/condition/osteoarthritis

On joint replacement, you know, my daddy had three knee replacements. The first one was awful (25-ish years ago), the second one was not so bad (15 or so years ago), and the third one (maybe 7-10 years ago, replacing the first, awful one) was really not bad at all. The technology has improved SO MUCH over the past few years.

[rhiannonredwulf]

So very sorry to hear the England trip seems to have tipped it over. :-(

And indeed, good to have a diagnosis.

My sister's knee replacements were kind of awful as well. But then, she waited till she was really infirm and had gained additional weight from being really infirm. Then the replacements were really hard to recover from because she was already really really sedentary. (Heart, lungs, blood chemistry, all of that was just not overjoyed at the operation.) --Although as I'm typing this, I wonder what her version of this "story" would be?

Might I send your post to Peggy? She's just this last week gotten the same diagnosis and found the cane more of a problem than a help. I wonder if she's got it in the wrong hand?

[meganwaters2004]

Right now, I am at the smallest weight I've been in 12 months, and am in a good place of eating right most of the time. As soon as my knee feels better, I am back to the water aerobics! Tell Peggy I felt better with the cane in my left hand, (and, I remind you I am left handed too, for what that is worth). Whichever hand she uses, it takes getting used to, and sometimes trying out various canes. The 4 pronged ones are more sturdy, but less sexy.
I think my knee feels better. But then, I really, really want it to as well.

[meganwaters2004]

That is a good article, thanks! Reaffirming the low carb diet is better for me. Staying away from white breads, pastas, crackers, sugars. Adding omega 3 fish oil..good stuff.

[elynross]

This is *very* late, because I just realized that somehow I'd turned off the notices that I should get when particular people post, hmf! I'm so sorry about the knees; at least the surgery seems to be much better these days, and recovery often quicker, at least judging by many of the folks I know who've had it.

And here's a wiki article on the "prie dieu" (tricksy French for "pray to God". It's not usually just a table, but a table piece for holding the prayer book, and an attached kneeler -- the place where you pray to God, as it were. I don't know if you remember the front of St. Andrew's, but each side has a prie dieu, one for the priest and one for the lay reader to use during the service. So I don't know if this is a prie dieu, or something else; I couldn't find any particular name or function specified for a table in this position, although I found other examples. One seemed to have a candle and a basket, maybe to put offerings into? Is this one between the nave and the sanctuary?