we’ve been together a total of 10 and a half years but it’s our 3rd anniversary yesterday on the 16th…we didn’t celebrate…she can’t really.
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That’s wonderful! I hope you have another ten years of joy!
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Why can’t she celebrate? Happy anniversary!
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bad back pain…stays in bed most of the time.
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Make her a favorite meal and bring her some flowers or fresh pressed leaves from a field. Bring nature to her since she can’t be out.
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good idea…I don’t know where there would be any flowers…we are making chicken and rice dinner tonight…didn’t feel like cooking on the 16th.
@jukebox, prolonged bedrest is absolutely the worst thing anybody can do for severe back pain, or any level of back pain.
I used to be in your wife’s dilemma. I was in so much back pain I was bedridden. I was in so much pain that I couldn’t bend over to wash my face or tie my shoes. I was starting to get dependent on other people. Doctors refused to give me narcotic pain meds, which I needed. I lived sitting on heating pads and hot water bottles. Then, I remembered reading long ago in a book, that yoga is good for the spine. I remembered that I still had that book.
Well, I got out that book and started reading it. I selected a sequence and performed it and repeated that for twenty minutes a day, four days a week, every week for six months. At the end of these six months, my back pain was gone. And stayed gone as long as I kept up my yoga practice faithfully.
I found that in order to keep the pain at bay, I could go no more than 2 days in a row without doing yoga before the pain would return. So it is a practice you must keep up.
And anybody can do yoga. No matter how old and/or out of shape you are. Yoga is for everyone. Have your wife try a free, online, 20 minute, beginning yoga class. If you think that she might be too inflexible and/or out of shape to handle that, have her try a free, online, gentle Chair Yoga class.
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Congratulations!!! I really like @sweetpotatocasserole ‘s suggestion. It’s too bad there are no flowers or green life anywhere near you. But you can still bring dinner to her and spend quality time together. I hope you enjoy your evening 
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You can easily iron leaves onto paper to make a leaf bouquet. It preserves the leaves, too so they don’t wither. You can collect different color ones too to make it bright!
well our anniversary is long gone…nice ideas…but I am very lazy.
First, @jukebox huge congrats on your anniversary!
Second, I’m 100% with @SkinnyMe on this one. Yoga can make a huge difference! I tried Youtube tutorials but couldn’t do a lot of them because of my knees, so I bought 1. an extra pad for my knees and 2. a box of yoga cards so I could make my own routine. They weren’t too expensive; I got them on Amazon. I still stay in bed too much, but I’m working on it. Yoga helps my back so much.
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