This injury caused me to face my fears and treat with a chiropractor for the first time in my life. I find it ironic that my job has me encouraging my motor vehicle accident clients to get regular chiropractic care for months after an accident. To them I can tell them all the good reasons for seeing a chiropractor and yet, you would not have caught ME seeing one for any previous aches and pains. I had an irrational fear of a chiropractor yanking too hard on my spine and causing me to be paralyzed for the rest of my life. Go ahead and laugh at me, but the fear was real. So I tell you about my fear, even though it makes me look foolish, so you can understand that for me to finally see a chiropractor it should give you some idea of how much pain I was in and how disabled I was. This was not some minor tweaking of my back
I'm proud to report I survived five treatments from a chiropractor and he was very patient with my fears. I will have to admit that his treatments got me back up and functioning again. But you notice, I only went to 5 treatments. I stopped them as soon as I felt I could live with my back's condition. I was still having pain but it is slowly getting better. He did K laser therapy treatments. If you ever have a chance to use that treatment I recommend it. It was wonderful. He also had a massage bed, that if I had the $4,000 it cost to purchase and room in my house for it, I would buy it in a heartbeat. It was WONDERFUL! That bed is probably what kept me coming back for as long as I did.
I am now totally out of shape having gone nearly a month without exercise and I lost any momentum I had with my diet. So I have set a goal in May to eat NO candy and as little sugar as possible. I am allowing myself the occasional cookie or small dessert but definitely NO candy. Easter sent me into a candy binge I'm afraid, so I am reforming my diet habits this month. So far so good. I've been true to my commitment and it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be.
I'm back to exercising but I am only walking. I'm still worried about what too strenous of exercise would do to my back. I hope my back gets back to 100% soon.
My gardening suffered because of my back injury. I had started the peas and lettuce as the picture below is proof,
but I wasn't able to start seeds for tomatoes, zucchini, etc. So I had to bite the bullet and go buy those plants from a nursery this year. But this year we are going to be able to grow some vegetables that we normally can't because of limited space. This year we have a ward garden space that is huge. So we signed up for a spot and we will be growing watermelon and canteloupe (that spread all over the place) up there. We are also going to try sweet potatoes, along with our every year crop of tomatoes, cabbage and cucumbers. There will also be a ward community corn and pumpkin patch. It's a big project that Dave got assigned to head up as part of his stewardship in the high priest group leadership so it is going to keep us/him busy this summer.
We are also excited about how our apple trees are doing this year. In this photo I tried to capture a sample of all the apple buds we have going in both of our apple trees. Don't worry, I am slowly getting around to thinning. Our little trees could not handle having ALL the buds come to fruition! Last year the late winter storms froze off ALL the apple blossoms and we didn't have one single apple. This year, the apple buds are everywhere!
Speaking of keeping Dave busy, he has started on a new home improvement project. Take a look at the photos below and see if you can tell what it is.
If you guessed a carport for the back apartment, you are right. Dave is real excited and Donna and Bob should be as well. It is going to keep their apartment a lot cooler this summer as it will block the late afternoon sun from directly hitting their apartment. It will also provide them a covered space in the winter for when they are outside smoking. Dave is excited because it will provide him a covered place to park his vehicle. In the three and a half years we have lived in this house, he has always had to park out in the elements, so it is going to be a nice treat for him.
Jenni has finally gotten hired, not just at one job, but apparently two. She has been working on getting hired at a drug rehab center right here in Pleasant Grove as a night shift personnel. They had her do a few trial shifts to see how she did and how she got along with the other staff members and then she has filled in for some employees for pay and has done a few complete shifts for pay. She says she is in a probationary period and if all goes well, it will become permanent. She likes the job because she can sleep during part of her shift and she is getting paid for it!
Last week she got hired with another drug/behavioral rehab center down in Provo called The Journey. You can check out their website http://www.journeyprograms.com. Jenni hasn't told us a lot about this job but it is only a part-time job working with the teen girls in the residential program as part of their after school program. Jenni plans on doing both jobs. She has wanted to get into working as part of the staff for these types of facilities so way to go Jenni! Congrats on reaching your goal.
Spencer is busy getting ready and psyched for his big road trip in June with two friends he has made at work. He plans on taking two weeks and touring some of America. I'm not sure of all the places he is heading for but he has told me Mt. Rushmore and Chicago are two of the places they want to visit. Their main objective is a big music festival called Bonnaroo, held in Tennessee, apparently on a yearly basis. It sounds like a modern day Woodstock, but Spencer assures me he is NOT going to be doing the drug/sex scene. As a mom, I'm keeping my fingers crossed and praying my guts out that it's true. Check out the website en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnaroo_Music_Festival to get some idea of what this Bonnaroo is all about.
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