I have kept at all my physical therapy.
And there were a lot of times that I just wasn’t interested in carrying on with PT at all.
Those therapists are heroes in my mind. They just keep encouraging you and pushing you but in such a compassionate way. There is a lot of chronic pain due to my injury and I may have to deal with this situation for the rest of my life. However, medical marijuana has been a tool in my tool belt to help me get through this. It’s weird getting injured doing something that has always come so completely natural to me. I was raised in a family of naturalists and hikers. So, I have been out hiking throughout my life. This led to a healthy and active life for me. Yet just one missed step and I suffered the worst injury of my life. I took a fall that resulted in broken bones and a bad back injury. The PT has helped so much. But so has the medical cannabis products. When I was first laid up in the hospital, a friend of mine brought me some great cannabis information she had gotten at a cannabis event. Our state has passed medical marijuana laws and there are legal weed shops we can now access. Once I was out of the hospital, I really didn’t want to stay with the pain meds. So I followed all the medical marijuana rules to be able to go to the medical cannabis dispensary. Using cannabis gummies helps with pain and stiffness. But it also helps me stay positive and keep going to get back out on the trails.