Outdoor travel » arthritis

No spare parts when your body gets old

Outdoor Travel — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:00:15 +0000

When I was 40 I never said but I always thought: gosh, I am not in my twenties anymore. And now having passed the big 60, I must say I am not 40 anymore…

A big nuisance are the eyes: carrying around 2 pairs of glasses is quite troublesome.

Yet the main problem is arthritis: the "oil" between my joints is unfortunately not replaceable, unlike the oil in the engine of my car. Especially my little finger (which I broke ages ago) sounds as if there is sand inside…

Yummies: mussels :-)

Outdoor Travel — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:55:04 +0000

As said in my previous mussel post, I have been cooking some delicious mussels these days

Cooked green lipped mussels in a simple veggie stock added some wine of course…

Ok, delicious is what my wife said, but she tends to be subjective (sometimes…)

She also said that mussels are not that good for your cholesterol, nor is too much wine…

Well, seems it’s not easy to get yourself a balanced diet, but I am working on it Meanwhile I am not taking my stupid Celebrex painkiller. I mean: why subdue your entire body when the arthritis pain is only in your pinky?

Tomorrow I have to go and by that green lipped mussel cream my fish seller told me about in one of my previous posts a few days ago. Life can be so busy when you are retired, and so it should be

More mussels against arthritis

Outdoor Travel — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:36:37 +0000

Quite funny this world is sometimes I find…

So I go to the fish-shop buying my green lipped mussels. The man behind the counter, a few years younger than me, looks at me and says:

- you have arthritis as well? It doesn’t show though, how do you do it?

So I say:

- well, it’s only in my little pinky.

So he says: then you should apply a cream which I use as well.

I wrote down the name on a paper because oh well, my memory tend to have some lapses every now and then and I was in a hurry to start cleaning the mussels and cooking them

Mussels against arthritis

Outdoor Travel — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:32:54 +0000

These days my little arthritis pinky is getting worse: sometimes suddenly I feel a sudden pain (that’s why I said suddenly as well…).

Actually it is as if somebody is poking my little finger with a needle INSIDE my finger. That’s the best way I can describe it.

So I went to the doctor and he prescribed me Celebrex, which is a painkiller.

Now I cannot be taking painkillers for the rest of my life.

So in order to get the fluids between my joints running again, I also need to take a food supplement called Glucosamine. Blur when I heard it, my pharmacist wasn’t of course. Seems with 1 out of 2 people, this Glucosamine gives you some extra connective tissue.

Yes: "some extra" only, so when you don’t have it, you cannot get it….

Since I don’t believe in popping pills in my body, I did some Google-ing and found that green lipped mussels for arthritis also contain a high amount of natural Glucosamine. Which means this evening we have mussels on the menu