Australia Day

Daily, I count my blessings that I live in this country and that this country allows me the freedom to choose the way I live, without fear of persecution or prosecution of my lifestyle, beliefs and values.

That freedom, I believe, also carries with a responsibility to support my country through staying healthy, paying taxes and not being a drain on the health or welfare system.

On the subject of staying healthy, I spoke last week about a  wonder juice for my aching shoulders – well, it is still working and helping me mobilise, exercise and sleep.  Cumerone 1200 truly is a ‘life saver’. Ultra sounds and X rays reveal severe calcification and degeneration in my shoulder joint which  is the cause for pain and restricted movement.  I’ve always pushed through that pain…. and, I might add, caused more pain/inflammation.

A little knowledge and help from a physio and pain rehab specialist will help me restore strength to this ever-weakening upper body of mine.  The expression ‘ignorance is bliss’ certainly does NOT apply in this instance.   My lack of understanding of what was going on in my body meant that I have exercised inappropriately; beyond reasonable limits and produced counter-productive pain. Inflamed muscle cannot repair itself. 

Listen to your body; do not ignore it.  Gather knowledge, then act.

Yours truly has just returned from the gym.