Last weekend I pulled a few to cook and these were the biggest I could find!
I'm still resting the blinkin' back, although it seems to be getting worse rather than better. I'm alternating ice packs and hot water bottles plus pain killers. What a good thing I keep well stocked with food and milk in the freezer and cat food in the cupboard as I would have been worried about not being able to get out for shopping.
Since Tuesday I've read two books, watched tennis and football and looked at blogs I've never seen before but I'd rather be busy. I may have to resort to the doctor.
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Sue
Sorry to hear about your back. What a nuisance. Those beetroots look delicious. Enjoy some reading time while you rest.
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with reading a few books ;-) but perhaps it's better to go to the doctor's. Hopefully you feel better very soon.
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Just catching up so sorry to read about your back, hope you feel better soon. Those baby beets look delicious, nothing beats the flavour of homegrown.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear you've been having problems with your back. Probably best to rest up for a while. At least you've been able to catch up on blogs and watch the tennis and football.
ReplyDeleteHope you see signs of i improvement soon.
Mitzi
It's good to rest your back when it's aching, but I don't know if continual sitting is good for it. I'm talking from experience here. A bit of gentle activity is good I believe, especially as you lead such an active life.
ReplyDeleteYou can have my share of the beetroot - NOT something I enjoy eating! I hope your back is less painful today and is just a pulled muscle and not something out of place. I always go to the chiro if my back is out (it's normally the same bit playing up, lower back pain by the hips). However, the Doctor is free!
ReplyDeleteAt least you have got lots of reading done - I would sit and read all day but now it's cooler Iam trying to get the garden tidied.
Keep doing stretches up to an imaginary beam, or the top of a door or ringing the bells on ropes. It all helps backs. If all fails pay for a session with a back person.
ReplyDeleteI showed cylinder beetroot and they are small compared to last year. We had our first ones yesterday. Hoping and praying for rain. Hope you feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteGet hold of the book 'Back to Life' by physio and consultant, Rogers and Brown I think. I was lucky enough to go on one of their courses at local orthopaedic hospital, best thing I ever did. Clinicians I work for recommended it and reckon it should be rolled out across UK. Re the back pain, paracetemols proven to be totally non effective so if you're taking those, ditch them. You need valium (to relax the muscle spasms that are actually causing the pain) and ibuprofen. If you get stomach problems from ibuprofen ask your GP for omezaprole which will line the stomach. That combination knocks you out for a couple of days but I find that, plus gentle staggering about the house, helps to start to get me back onto my feet.
ReplyDeleteHope you are feeling better soon, I don't have a back issue, but I do on occasions suffer with back ache and it's impossible to do anything. I prefer small beetroots they are sweeter.
ReplyDeleteHi Sue, I'm sorry to hear about your back pain. A very simple exercise that always helps me, my Mum, and an uncle is to lie flat on the floor on your back, put your feet firmly on the floor (close to, but not touching, your bum) and slowly lift your hips until you have a little bridge. Shoulders stay on the floor, so it's similar to a slope. Lift up in 10 seconds, hold for 5, and back down in 10 seconds.
ReplyDeleteMake sure you have a chair or similar close by to help you get back up.
Siebrie
Yes that's one of the exercises I was taught by a physio lady a few years back. I need to do the whole sequence I was taught more often
DeleteWhat a shame the weather has affected your beetroot. There is nothing nicer than freshly cooked, plain beetroot. We used to be able to buy it from our veg shop cooked and ready to eat but now they have started putting vinegar on it and I don't like it so much.
ReplyDeleteOh your poor back Sue....I do hope it heals soon.
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fresh beetroot, nothing nicer! One of the best things to grow yourself. I loathe beetroot ruined by vinegar, but fresh and bare, absolutely fantastic.
ReplyDeleteSorry about the back pain, I can sympathise. You are doing all the right things, so time and rest will soon get you back to normal.
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The beetroots look lovely. Small and sweet.
ReplyDeleteSeeing the GP might be a good idea, seeing as it's not improving. Bad backs limit life so much, don't they? Hoping tomorrow will be better for you. xx
If your back isn't improving in the next day or so I think you really should consider going to the doctors. It sounds bad this time, and of course all the stress of the last few months will be making things worse. Grief comes out in physical as well as mental ways, something I was told by our doctor when me and Alan had health worries during the aftermath of losing a parent each in less than 5 months.
ReplyDeleteThe first picking of any crop is pretty special isn't it, those little beetroot look lovely, I picked our first cucumber yesterday, can't wait for the tomatoes to ripen up ☺
I've been giving cucumbers away. But better to have to many than too few I reckon. First tomato may get it's own blog photo!
DeleteMight be time to get to a doctor for a muscle relaxer. Almost like muscle spasms seem to know you can't help thinking about them, so they bring more "unfriendly friends" to the party. Hoping you get some relief soon.
ReplyDeleteI've had my own troubles with beetroot this year. I sowed 70 seeds and pricked out 45. Out of the 45 I've only got 10 surviving seedlings :( Have you thought about going to an osteopath?
ReplyDeleteI really like beetroot and my daughter makes a chocolate cake with grated beetroot which is lovely. I made some ‘pink ‘ coleslaw after trying some from a shop-some finely sliced cabbage, onion, grated beetroot with a tiny taste of horseradish(optional), and all mixed with some yoghurt-delicious. My usual remedy for my back is to visit an osteopath when it’’s not getting better after a few days. Take care-the painting will wait.
ReplyDeleteI hope your back is much better soon Sue. Make sure you get plenty of rest.
ReplyDeleteI need to look up some beetroot recipes. Mine have grown quite well but I didn't think about what to do with them if they did. X
I love them just boiled without vinegar but they don't keep without a bit of vinegar even in the frdge.
DeleteI have frozen cooked but unpicked beetroot with some success
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How lovely that you are able to eat food that your Col planted,It must feel as though he lives on through things that are now growing.My Dads lavender comes through every year and we love sitting by it!I hope that your back feels better soon Sue,rest it as much as you can.And if you have lavender,pull the seeds off,wrap them in a cloth and warm in the microwave.Lay on them where the pain is bad..I think that it really does help,xx
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ReplyDeleteBack pain is so limiting, and once it starts it can snowball, it seems. Hope you can get it sorted out soon.
ReplyDeleteFresh beetroot, planted with love. Hope your back recovers soon xx
ReplyDeleteI much prefer the tiny beetroot for taste.
ReplyDeleteHope you back gets better soon - I was lucky at the cottage this time and managed long stints of gardening without doing my back in!
I adore beetroot
ReplyDeleteBut it does make your pee red