well its been three weeks now and i am finally in a small cast and can function a bit. It’s nice to be getting closer to healing.

I broke my wrist pretty bad, i broke my one bone on the side of my thumb completely across then somehow managed to also split my joint also in half, along with damaging most of the tendons in my hand. The top of my hand being the most painful.

Its funny how life’s event make you pay attention and think about the choices you make and lead you toward major changes in your life. I guess you could say my body was talking to me and i guess i wasn’t listening, so it helped me out.

I don’t know if i ever mentioned this before, i don’t bring it up often as it is my own personal choice, but about 3 years ago i decided to go vegetarian to deal with another health issue i had in my life, insulin resistance. The precursor to full blown diabetes. I decided right then and there that diabetes was not how i wanted to get old and made some major changes in my diet. I feel so much better since making that change. It was a long but successful journey.

Following along those lines I also am not one for medications if i can possibly avoid them. With this pain of this wrist i was given vicoden, i took them for lack of a better alternative. But have to say they didnt really kill the pain very well. I still was having intense pain in the tendons in the top of my hand along with a constant pain in my wrist and up my bone.

So the other day while at the natural foods store i decieded to stop at the pharmacy and ask what i could do to help along the healing of these bones. She recommended some comfrey as a tea, 1 small cup a day and some pill that comes from the herb horsehair. The comfrey relieves pain and has an element that promotes the reknitting of your bones back together and the horsehair works to strengthen bones.

I came home, made some tea and took the pill. And i was truly amazed that within 24 hours of this regimin the pain in the top of my hand and much of my wrist had subsided. Wow, a simple cup of tea was able to do what vicodin could not. I am still in no pain several days later and very happy about that. My bones are on the mend and i hope to be back to work designing some time soon.

So the next major change in my  life is to get my body on track even more, lose the rest of this weight, strengthen these bones  and make the next decade of  my life the best. I will certainly be interested to learn more about herbs and how to use them better in my life. The journey has begun…..