Dug up iris cut down flowers. + cleaning 7 houses this week.Wearing wrist support tight now.Going to have Doctor friend look at it this afternoon.Like Free medical help.Dh says time to cut back even more on my business.
You could have developed RSI (Repetative strain injury) Koszta. It can be very painful and one of the best things for it is to rest the affective joint. Do let us know what your friend thinks.
Did get me out of helping with more firewood. But Miss Doc not being there when we clean. And she was gone last weekend.Tried playing Dr and looking pain area up on .I kinda baby other arm-got 4 screw in it. Broke it in 7 places years ago
Make sure you rest for(at least) for few days. I hope the pain subsides soon. Keeping the wrist support on as it's a good idea and should help. Take care.
I don't get wrist pain from gardening, but I do get a sore forearm/elbow. I always call it tennis elbow even though I don't play tennis. It gets worse when I do a lot of pruning or cutting down plants like I am right now.
Doc came out to our place.She said might have just over did it..But has another brace for it. At least she says she gets pain there also and get better shortly.Had plenty of help cutting up rest of fire wood. Got enough for 2 maybe 3 years.But will be 66 in Jan.will quit work before I quit gardening.
Doc did say lot of gardeners should wear brace when digging and pulling weeds.And thick knee pads. I do them -or one of those padded cushions
Doc came back out. She gave me a pair of gardening gloves-has built in wrist support.Small enough can get a hold of weeds and still support wrist area.
There's nothing worst then having a pain in the garden. I would give up housework before gardening. Those gloves sound like the perfect solution. Do you know the name of them or where to find them?
Connie, I hope your wrist/s feel better soon. I have had wrist problems most of my life, long before I learned to garden. I had ganglion cysts removed twice from my one wrist. The computer can also aggravate wrist problems and cause carpal tunnel syndrome [wrist pains]. I had to use braces when I was still working because swinging an industrial sized mop all day long 5 days a week, can cause a lot of wrist pains. And then I had torn a ligament or something in one elbow and had to use a brace for over 6 months before it healed. A few days rest for them could be very helpful for you.
Last post went poof. But Dh says he has seen the gloves with wrist support at Menards.But mostly in tool area. So most likely not small enough for woman.I do baby left arm. Like I said broke it in 7 places.Got screws inside. And had 4 outer ones -with hallo bar.And garmet hooks glued and wires. to nails $23,000 back then. Doc said to add a $100'000 now
Connie,sorry to hear you are having problems.It seems you work awfully hard.I know I'm a pansy anymore,hubby does the labor.Most everything is done here except planting new Lilium bulbs I got from IRLS.That's group Wanda is officer in.Going to be a good day to plant them tomorrow. I used to help a lot with the firewood.When he worked I brought it all in.Used to load truck in timber. Now it is brought home in chunks & split with splitter. sNs
Seems like a body needs repair just like auto. But will quit couple more customer after first of the year.Not giving up gardening.The support does help.
But I did start working when I was 4 full time. Father owned big cafe. So full time for 62 years. but customer gave me nice gift for taking care of her cats and (fish). 1 hour massage.So will go in for 2 1/2 hour. Got to plant those iris + some more tulips.
