Visioniosiv,

I keep thinking about your encouraging words. It had helped me to do more, to stop babying my RSD foot, continually putting it up, my husband made me aware of that, as it had become a habit for me. So now I am putting it down some of the time. Using the cane a little less, it is all little shifts in my thinking, and way of doing things. I take a timer out to the garden with me, set it for 15 minutes, and pull, dig up weeds, and then STOP, that is the tricky part, stopping, I sit on a lawn chair, and my hope is, that doing these small things, will help my back to get stronger, and of course my foot is down on the ground. Slow and steady wins the race :-). Then I sit and pet the cats and rest.
The garden is way to big. I am not going to give up on it. Still trying to find a solution. I love being out there, it has always been my focus all summer. I will focus on NOW and what I can do each day.
:-)
peace
zinnia