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Though Larry’s badly shattered ankle may be healed as far the bone mending goes, it and both his lower legs are still showing the effects of having that high pressure hose beat the hell out of them. The chemicals that were shot into his feet and legs from the hose caused him to develop a dry flaky skin condition that nothing, including high dollar RX creams and medicines would get rid of. After reading about how good Dead Sea salt soaks are for muscles, tendons, tissue and even various skin conditions, I began testing on his feet, ankles, lower legs, and back.

I started the experiment by scooping a bucket of water out of one of my Sunday night Dead Sea salt baths. I rubbed some of the water from the bucket onto his back, then had him soak his feet and legs in it. That first soak made his feet and legs look and feel so much better, I decided to continue the experiment. After hauling buckets of water into his “Man Room” every Sunday night for three weeks I was thrilled to see the dry spots on his back were clearing up. His bad foot and lower legs were also looking better. However, I was getting tired of hauling buckets of water to him. I decided to it was time for him to graduate from the “She Hauls Them By The Bucket Full Soaks”, to the “Do It Yourself Scrubs”.

I put some of my salt scrub into a little jar and sat it on the edge of his tub. When he took his shower that night I went in and introduced him to the “Do It Yourself” scrub technique. At first, he resisted that technique because he was getting such a perverse pleasure out of seeing me hauling water into him every Sunday night. But then he began to scrub his bad foot and ankle with it. After a few seconds of vigorous scrubbing he got a dreamy eyed look on his face that was halfway between intense pain and unbearable pleasure. After a moment I asked him, “How does that feel?”

He replied, “It feels great! But, tingles like hell.” I suggested he might be scrubbing a little too vigorously. He shook his head and replied, “Hell no.” Then held his hand out palm up. As I put some more scrub in his palm he said, “It does tingle like hell, and even sting a little, but feels good at the same time.”

After he was out of the shower and comfortably settled into his recliner I handed him his very own tube of mineral lotion, and said, “Here, rub some of this onto your feet and legs. It will help soothe the tingling.” And before he could reply something to the effect that I would look better doing that, I left the “Man Room”.