Annie, I so agree that how we eat has a whole lot to do with all the chronic stuff we suffer with. Those are good reminders!
Catmint, take heart! The year I injured my back, it was the week before Thanksgiving and I injured it while attempting to move the compost from it's location to a new one closer to my trailer where I lived at that time. I was also going to harvest the done compost and put it on a new bed I'd been working to create.
Well, nope! And for quite a while I wondered if I would ever be able to garden or do these things for myself again! I got some friends to help me move the compost and layer the finished stuff onto the new bed, thank goodness, and within a few months I was doing my own gardening again, though very very cautiously at first!
I'm still cautious but I also know I can do pretty much everything I used to do, if I pay close attention to pacing myself and to how my body feels.
