Hot Tub for Therapy (and fun!)

• by Judi ~ August 6, 2008

We’ve been looking for a hot tub for a while. Not only would it be nice and relaxing, but for the therapeutic qualities itself, a hot tub would be so worth nice. I use medicine to help control the pain I have from my crohn’s disease, but sometimes, that’s either not enough, or I want a little break from it.

Heat, warm water (temperatures around 102-104 degrees), has long been beneficial.. it relaxes your body’s muscles and joints. It also causes your body’s blood vessels to expand, which may lower your blood pressure. Plus, the jets.. they help message and loosen tight muscles.

I wish we’d started looking last year for a hot tub, but better late than never. My crohn’s will never go away, and well, besides it’ll just feel good.

Not to mention, but we’ve decided that vacations are not in our anytime immediate (or otherwise) future. With the dogs, the kids, the bills.. it just doesn’t make sense to go away from home, the stress involved, the cost, the juggling of other issues.. and we’re such homebodies anyway.. we really prefer to be at home – rent a movie, get carry-out and eat in.. we love our yard.. why go away? A hot tub just seems like one more way to round out our vacation at home – or stay-vacation. :)

So… through spreading the word, we found a hot tub! Next to nothing.. just have to drive to get it.. which, Bob is doing today.. Can’t wait to see the doctor to see when I get the OK to get in it (since I have an incision in my tush right now).