Flower Arranging Helps Reduce Fibromyalgia Pain

[ladycatlover]

We prefer to go for the single stem approach. Currently it's a single stem of Acidanthera. That way OH can actually manage to cope with it. And I don't have to bother.

 

[rvallee]

This is pretty much the approach I faced when after over a year of waiting, I finally got to our local Pain 'Management'- unbelievably stupid advice, consisting of: you are going to be in pain for the rest of your life, in fact your pain is going to get worse (I'm already not coping, but thanks for that!), you need to carry on as if you don't have the pain ( for whose benefit?), and hide it from everyone ( again- why?), and look at this diagram, which shows that when you are HAPPY you notice pain less, therefore be HAPPY and problem solved!

It is hard to believe that people get paid to do this kind of stuff.

Basically this, but sick instead of poor.

 

[Simbindi]

Maybe that's the answer - the ladies using cannabis introduced the others to their suppliers.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there! My daughter recently said to me, 'All my friends' parents use cannabis for their pain now.' My immediate thought (as someone who has never taken illegal drugs) was, 'But how do they know where to get it?'

 

[shak8]

But surely they are missing a fundamental question = do the patients bring their own flowers in a shopping bag and how do they feel about carrying them.

No, I think that Israel is a big exporter of flowers. Perhaps some relative of the researchers was looking for a new market for leftover and wilting flowers from the Negev flower farms.

(https://www.israel21c.org/business-is-blooming-for-israeli-flowers/

 

[Graham]

But there are certain skills you learn in flower arranging that can help. For example, to deal with wilting flowers you stand them up to their neck in a bucket of water overnight in the garage. So if you are wilting, clearly that is a technique worth trying. (There are other forms of wilting, but I'm not sure about the relevant advice there.)

Again, if it is just a question of a drooping head, stick a pin through the neck, or wrap florists' wire around it.

On the other hand, if the flower is going to seed, just wait for a while. Sometimes those that have gone to seed are the most attractive.

 

[Arnie Pye]

to deal with wilting flowers you stand them up to their neck in a bucket of water overnight in the garage

I could cope with the part where I put wilting flowers in a bucket of water. Unfortunately, I don't have a garage. Would a manky garden shed do?