Garden Hazards!

Seems recently I have only been blogging about my garden which

is really one of my favorite topics!

This year appears to be my year of garden injuries

and three trips to the doctors office.

Early this spring when the weather was unusually warm I took

advantage and did lots of clean up.  

Well one morning I saw something growing on my upper thigh

I tried to pull it off put it was very attached so I just watched it for about 4 days.

Finally my leg seemed to be infected and very warm...

so again I tried to pull it off...and it came off!!

I pushed on it with my finger nail and blood came squirting out

OMG it was a tick!

Now how could I get to be 67 years old and not know what a tick was but I had never seen one.

Yes my doctor saw me right away and we are waiting to see if I get any symptoms of Lyme Disease.

I don't live in a high Lyme Disease area but this year is so unusual and 

there are lots more ticks being seen.

So time goes on and I just keep working in the garden.  The Friday

before Memorial Day about 6:00 in the evening decided do some mulching.

Unfortunately I did not put on my garden shoes but started spreading 

mulch in my flip flops.  I came down on a rusty metal post sticking out of the ground. 

I didn't even realize it was there..... here I go again off the docs office.

Thanks goodness no stitches just bandages, tetanus shot, shot of antibiotics, 

and they prescribed antibiotics for 10 days.

No working in the garden until it's healed!

So now it's the end of June and only been playing in the garden for

about a week...took awhile for my foot to heal.

We had a couple beautiful days cooler with nice breeze and I enjoyed

working ... planting, digging, weeding, mulching whatever needed done..

it felt so good getting everything finished.

Well seems I over did it because a few days latter there was awful pain running

down my right leg..OMG it really hurt!

Yes here we go again to the doctors

Sciatica was the diagnosis taking pain killers, muscle relaxer, using ice...

not sleeping all night, hurts when I lay, sit or if I stand too long!

It's been a little over 3 weeks and the pain is a lot better.

Been to the chiropractor  2 times and that helps.

My husband has been watering the garden but not like me...

and there are weeds everywhere...

oh well I can't bend over very well so they will have to wait.

Thanks for listening to me I really needed to share.

Linking to
Fertilizer Friday

Warm hugs,