The day I nearly DIED...(and how Arnica saved my neck!) (Nelsons Arnica Cream - 30g)

Member Name: snootybutnice

Product:	Nelsons Arnica Cream - 30g
Date:	13/04/09 (345 review reads)
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It works! It truly does. Now...many people giving reviews will testify to this using their children as prime examples ("it worked on my little Johnny who's always bruising himself"...yada yada yada!)... but I'm here to tell you that this stuff truly DOES work miracles...forget about the kids!! LOL

MY FUNNY MIRACLE
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A few years ago me and hubby went on a skiing holiday while living in Spain and invited my brother and his girlfriend across from England to join us. My brother is an avid skier (a regular attendee of black runs). I'd never skied before but fancied giving it a go.

My brother gently guided me on either a blue or green run (my first after a lesson on the nursery slopes!) - and patiently told me "I'm going to traverse left to right...follow me". I did and the world was good. We stopped half way down without any mishaps and I felt really pleased with myself - "was I perhaps a natural?" I glowed, privately to myself.

Then he said the immortal words "I'm going to straight line it - meet you at the bottom". Now...he's my brother. I'm going to traverse left and right translated into "we". "I'm going to straight line it now" translates into "we" ...get it?

I watched my brother as he hunkered down into a tight tuck and marvelled at how aerodynamic he looked. I of course quickly followed suit. I mean it was half way down the mountain for christ sake...it'll be fine...it wasn't like I was straight lining it from the TOP or anything...

For the first 5 seconds I was smiling inside - it was going wonderfully. Then...curiously I seemed to pick up speed down the mountainside (as one does I suppose). It then occurred to me that I was going a tad faster than I would have liked. ....It quickly re-occurred to me that as I could only see flashes of peoples suits as I skiied past them, and that...BLOODY HELL...I was fast!! I then remembered that, at the end of the ski slope, was a big solid bund of snow and then a sheer drop down a mountainside. It came, rather like an unwanted news flash, that at my current speed I was unlikely to be able to stop. Images of Eddie the Eagle suddenly sprang to mind.

Bugger...oh f***... OK think... "SNOW PLOUGH!" ...I thought quickly and mentally patted myself on my back. My skiis felt like I was traversing across a herd of washing machines set on a super fast spin cycle. Operation "Snow Plough" was a clear winner in my book - although in all truthfulness I didn't actually have a plan 'B'.

I gingerly started to straighten up and before I knew it, the world turned white as I somersaulted and then nose dived spectacularly through snow covered ice for around 40-50 metres. My designer sunglasses broke across the nose ridge with the pressure of snow being hurled against my face and when I finally stopped, I lay there for a few minutes, not daring to move, peering tentatively out between what used to be my dark glasses which were still tangled around my ears but curiously now open up to the elements...flopping on either side of my nose.

My partner finally got to me and was probably the most worried I've ever seen him (apart from the time when I spilt my coffee near his laptop...!) and pronounced that he thought I was dead cos I hadn't moved for so long. He obligingly fetched my skiis from up the hill - around 3 minutes walk away and gave me a hug (ahh!) and I had a party of wellwishers below...OK just my brother and his girlfriend, but I'm sure more people cared :-p

"What the HELL were you doing?!" my brother exploded.

You said "straight line it..." I retorted, somewhat defensively. His eyes went heavenward. "No...I said I was going to straight line it...I expected you to keep gently traversing down the slope ...like we were doing at the top". WELL really! He had some nerve. Placing the fault back on my shoulders.

Still...I mused...I HAD survived, so I could forgive him - but if I had injured myself he wouldn't have heard the last of it, that's for sure!

I went back to my hotel an hour or so later, and hubby was pampering me. "Do you want a cuppa"...he asked. It was at that point that I realised that I couldn't actually lift my head off the bed to answer him. NO REALLY....I wasn't being lazy!! The muscles in my neck had been wrenched after my spectacular fall - and I literally had to use my hands to lift my head up. Very weird - and quite funny.

Now I don't know about you, but when you have problems like this after only 2-3 hours from the injury, then you just KNOW that you aren't going to be able to move the next day (am I RIGHT...OR AM I RIGHT?). OK if you're 20 maybe not, but late 30's (OK you got me, early 40s!) TRUST ME....I'm right.

I had arnica in my bag for my little one - so figuring it might help I totally creamed up all around my neck - and then settled for an early night with some pain killers to help any inflammation. (A natural medic me some might say!).

Do you know what? The next morning my neck was as good as NEW. I'm really NOT exaggerating. I really had no problems at all. Now, I figured this stuff may help for bruising for my todder...but I never truly appreciated the power of arnica before I injured my neck. I was moving it left and right in total disbelief. I had myself down as totally disabled by morning and it had never felt BETTER.

Well...frankly I never would have believed it possible - so I thought I'd give you my experience and let you be the judge. I always keep some in my medicine cabinet now and wouldn't be without it.

COST
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You can purchase this at most pharmacies or even on Ebay for a fixed price. You will pay from around £3.50-£5.00 on average for the 30g size and between £5.50-£8.00 for the 50g size.

Nelsons themselves currently advertise the 30g tube for £3.95 and the 50g tube for £5.50. Ebay sometimes sell it cheaper - but other companies tend to be more expensive unless they have a "special offer" e.g. currently healthstuff.co.uk sell the 30g tube for £4.35.

WHO MAKES THIS STUFF?
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A company called Nelson and Russell Holdings Limited - which is a family run business that has a turnover in excess of £25m. The company was founded in 1860 but then later acquired in 1974 by the Wilson family. Today they have over 200 employees and it's run by two brothers, Robert and Patrick Wilson.

Their top 3 selling products are: Arnica, Calendula and Tea Tree.

Most recently Nelsons earnt the regional award and Coutts Prize for "Family Business 2008/2009".

Summary: A worthy "A LISTER" for the medicine cabinet