Who said Gardening was good for you?

Mrs. H

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Sat here pondering just how many times in the last 10 years I've sought medical advice, either from GP, Pharmacist or A&E for Garden related incidents.
I'm only *sat here* in the first place and not in the garden as I'm currently on antibiotics after disturbing an ants nest whilst weeding. Little blighters ran up my arm quicker than hungry students at an all you can eat buffet.
Within hours my left arm blew up like Popeyes, red hot and with alarming looking lumps.
(Turns out the only thing worse than those bites is the antibiotic which seems to have much the same effect as Cillit Bang drain unblocker.)

From memory this must be at least the 6th bad reaction to a bite or sting, be it Mosquito, Ant, Horsefly or Wasps.
Then the A&E eye dept. for 3x scratched Corneas from Sawdust, Grit and the pointy end of a Cordeline I was pruning.
A&E again after hitting my thumb with an axe (don't go there).
Another A&E after an incident involving a rusty nail in a piece of wood I was using as a mallet (again, don't go there.)

I think Addenbrooks now regard me as some sort of "Secret Shopper". Safe to say if I was a child Social Services would be on speed dial by now.
 
Ordinarily the exercise will be good for you @Mrs.H, but clearly not in your case. I do gardening with a long sleeved shirt and gloves now, which is better safety wise but a bit warm in Summer, but we can only do a hour in the morning then anyway. Same problem with ants; red ants are worst and should be avoided. Pruning roses is my Nemesis and I always get injured, even just from picking the cuttings up and putting them in a bag. Never a hospital job though. I suggest you buy some good quality safety glasses.
 
To be fare, I’m not much better. I itch for three weeks and also swell up like popeye for midge, mosquito and horsefly bites. I’ve hit myself with a very sharp machete on the hand, in the shin with an axe and have a general saying about myself, “ I haven’t done a days work unless I’ve bled “
 
Funnily enough I think I got 3 pairs of Safety Specs from Santa this year!!
And my rose pruning gloves are now thick leather ones that come virtually up to my arm pits and look like I'm handling nuclear waste.
 
Antibiotics not only kill the infection bacteria but the good bacteria in your gut hence the trots. If you were a cat there could be one digging a hole another doin it and yet another lookin for new territory 🤭
 
Is that you in there 🤔😂😂👍
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Possibly...but my helmet had a pair of fluffy ears on it too :ROFLMAO:

Can you imagine passers by's faces if I'm out there like that with a watering can just casually attending to the pots and borders.
 
I feel when chainsaws start being involved it goes past being able to call it gardening. I would have loved to see my dear old nan going at the rose bush with a chainsaw and fag hanging off her lip though :ROFLMAO:
 
Haha! maybe not physically then….
Nothing better mentally though, its been a god send for me as ive done my garden over the last 7 or so years, days like today nothing better than sitting watching it all and the birds/bees/water with a coffee… or more likey beer 😂
 
Mmmm… accidents at home… including a broken leg from falling 13’ from scaffolding while taking it down back in 2011. One month on C ward at Addenbrooke’s and seven months non weight bearing followed.
But last night’s ’accident in the home’ was whilst trying to prise the clear plastic seal wrap off a new bottle of Tabasco using a very sharp pointed kitchen devil knife which slipped resulting in me thrusting it straight into the side of my left index finger quite deeply. I think it could do with a stitch but am making do with bandage with cello tape wrapped tightly round it. I think my new Laurel and Hardy avatar is very apt and befitting!
Dear Mrs H, maybe we should meet up some time I think we’d make a fine pair 🤣
 
It is said most accidents happen with blunt not sharp tools, I disagree !!. Our central heating packed up last week so I used the log burner more. Chopping kindling with my recently well sharpened hand axe, the axe hit a wood knot and bounced and hit my finger, that hurt. Kitchen roll and a few plasters later my wife said do I want a brandy. I replied I have cut myself I am not suffering from hyperthermia.
The motto is wear substantial work gloves when cutting kindling.
 

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Gardening probably is good for me but I swear i am forever digging holes 😂

Worse one was for a ground level trampoline. That lasted a week, it, broke and wife said fill it in again after i had levelled tons of earth elsewhere 😑

That wasnt good for me at all 🤣
 
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