The Sewing Mom

My mother-in-law is a walker. To my knowledge, at least in the 25 or so years that I’ve known her she’s been a walker. What I mean by walker is that she walks everywhere she goes. She doesn’t just walk either, she puts her head down, arms bent at the elbow, sneakers on, and walks like there was no tomorrow. She walks so fast that she always arrives first wherever she’s going and whoever she’s with has to catch up. She goes so fast that there have been times when we’ve had to remind her to stop at street intersections to check for oncoming traffic. She gets into her walking mode and everything else seems to get tuned out. Mind you , she is in her 70’s and still walks this way. I should say, she walked that way up until this past Spring.

This past Spring, my mother-in-law was walking in her usual way, on her way to catch a bus. She was so focused on her walk that she didn’t see the oncoming motorcycle which plowed into her just as she stepped off the curb to the sidewalk. She was knocked down flat on the ground and suffered a concussion, neck and shoulder injuries. It’s actually amazing that she didn’t break anything as hard as she was hit. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital and held several days for observation, mainly due to her age.

Once she was released from the hospital she was pretty much on her own. She lives away from all of her kids and my father-in-law, her husband,  passed away a year ago. The one thing she has complained about since the accident is how stiff she gets with her sore back, shoulder and neck pain. It’s not quite as bad all these months later, but it still bothers her. She’s not one to complain at all and she doesn’t like to take medications so I have recommended to her that she try Freeze It Gel and rub it directly on the skin surrounding the sore muscles and muscle sprains.  It’s made with Aloe and Vitamin E as well as other herbal extracts and it doesn’t have the medicinal smell that other pain ointments have.

My mother-in-law is on a fixed, limited income and having a supply of Freeze It would be a huge relief to her and to us knowing she had such a great product to relieve her on going pain and discomfort. She can use the product herself and unlike internal medication, there is no side affect. She can apply the Freeze It herself to relieve all her aches and muscular strains. Chances are pretty good that she will not recover much beyond where she is at today physically. She still has difficulty going up and down stairs which is not good because she lives on the second floor. She can’t get out and walk much which is a problem because that was her primary mode of transportation. She is now reliant on others to give her rides or pick up groceries and such for her.

My mother-in-law could really use a year’s supply of [tag]Freeze It[/tag]! Having a supply of Freeze It on hand would provide her with not only the physical relief, but relief from the stress of not knowing how she will afford the cost of pain relief.