Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

Sometimes knee replacement can seem the better option, as my sister says she is now completely pain free....but very stiff. I ,hopefully, will work through this initial stiffness in time but will I be pain free.???...hmmmmm. We will see at the moment I want to keep my knee..I've grown quite attached to it!!

 

@Upsydaisy glad that your appointment went well.

Just fed the Christmas cake, not doing much else, just watching YouTube a lot.

 

The set of exercises are done. Sorted out the clean laundry in ironing and non ironing piles and put away the latter. Cleaned the two upstairs bathrooms. Just having a cuppa before I tackle the hall ( had planned to do that yesterday) will wash the hall and entrance lobby floors. Hopefully I get to do 10 mins on my bike before main meal at 12:30.. Afterwards I want to get a couple of hours of pottering in the garden + some seed sowing before a leisurely stroll up to our neighbours farm and back. Video calling our brood tonight too..That's today sorted.

 

Walked a little further than the farm so all in all 0.77 miles...not that far, but far enough for now.

 

I thought you were only allowed to go as far as the farm and back.

 

Roughly....the consultation doesn't know our lane, he just said pace yourself and do what is comfortable and as I have already walked to the farm I thought as I was feeling good and the sun was shining I would try a little further , it's 0.52 to the farm and back...so I only did a few more steps. I definitely won't..well I physically can't, walk our whole lane yet.

 

Hmm, @Upsydaisy I'm guessing only tomorrow will tell if you did right or pushed a little.

I've got the breads baked for my company to take home, and been busy doing pretty much nothing!

Went in to start serging a top and then thought, nope not in the mood. Then something else, same thing.

So I'm sat here listening to the television Lazy Lori...

 

I'm good Lori

Don't forget that I've now dropped 2 sets of the recovery exercises. I did 10 mins on the bike which was very comfortable on the lowest setting. The walk was easier that a set of the exercises actually.

 

No comment! xx

 

Please do follow the doctor's orders. When I did my back in some years ago, there was a kidney concern so my doctor advised me to drink a lot. I have followed her advise scrupulously ever since.

 

When did ,25 (ie, a quarter of a mile, roughly 500 to 600 steps) become a few steps?

 

He never actually said how far to walk and our neighbours farm is very near!!

I did ask him what he thought was a good walk to start off with and he said a walk of up to 5- 8 lampposts away from the house was a good rough guage......I told him that we didn't have any street lights!! He looked at my notes ( for my address) and then said ' you're No.2 so how about walking up to No 22 and back.... I then said to him ' well I may be No.2 but we are actually the 4th house along our lane and there's only a total of 6!!!

He laughed and admitted defeat and said to do what I felt was comfortable but not to return to my daily 3+ miles until I see him in May. I know full well that at this very moment in time I couldn't walk the length of our entire lane....yet. I'm adamant that I'm going to recover properly as I need my knees to be fully functioning for many years to come.

 

Point taken. I shall say no more. xx

 

Today I went to see the Orthopaedic consultant and after X-rays, he has decided to replace my hip. I then went for a pre-surgical assessment. He says I will get a letter confirming I am on the list and I will get my surgery within twelve weeks. He says that is a lie. Hopefully twelve months but no promises. I have suffered for twenty years. Another one or two are hardly here or there.

 

My sister has to have both her hips replaced and has been on the waiting list since Autumn 2019.