I have bad knees. <\/p>\n
They often ache, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like standing for long periods, often refuse to bend tightly, and on occasion complain loudly about kneeling. Why? <\/p>\n
In reality, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because my knees are as old as I am, and they have carried too much weight most of their lives. I also think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some genetic predisposition going on here, as both sisters have similar issues. <\/p>\n
However, I find it more satisfying to blame the nuns at my high school. Like most Catholic high schools of the era, we had to wear uniforms, consisting of white blouses, blazers, pleated skirts, knee socks, and saddle shoes (in a unique design of navy blue & grey). I distinctly remember waiting for the bus after school in the middle of a western New York winter. Between the bottom of the rolled-up skirt and the top of the knee socks, my knees were a bright red. When the wind blew, the wool skirt hitting my knees felt like knives slicing against them. This couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been good, and couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have done my joints any favors. (Ooohhhhh, perhaps my sisters did the same thing and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the nuns\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fault that we ALL have bad knees, as opposed to my parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 genes!)<\/p>\n
Regardless of the cause I believe I have some wear\/use issues to the cartilage in my left knee and arthritis in both knees. I try to take care of them by daily walking, regular yoga, and routine applications of a wonderful product called Flower Power For Pain made by my herbalist friend, Anne Romance, of Green Heron Gardens. (Anne doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a website, but you can read a little bit about her here<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c scroll down to near the bottom of the page for her mini-bio.)<\/p>\n Then the other day I had a big DUH moment. Like a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153physician, heal thyself\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sort of thing, although I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m no doctor, nor do I play one on TV. But why, oh, why hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I made myself a talisman to help my aching knees? <\/p>\n So I did my research and made one. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just started carrying it. Check back in a few days and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell you all about my new talisman. I’ll also give you some periodic updates about how my knees feel now that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m using it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have bad knees. <\/p>\n They often ache, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like standing for long periods, often refuse to bend tightly, and on occasion complain loudly about kneeling. Why? <\/p>\n In reality, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because my knees are as old as I am, and they have carried too much weight most of their lives. I also think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewelry-healing-gemstones","tag-healing-talismans","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}