Exactly @punkdoc I get on well with my surgeon and he has also said his door is always open. I trust his judgement and I have a feeling that they can only operate when the hip/cartilage is at a certain stage.
That is very true in the UK @punkdoc but I thought the waiting lists are not so long in France where @tui34 is living. I might well be wrong however but it doesn't really matter if Tui is happy to wait for her operation.
Good that you managed a hour's walk, that's fantastic progress.
I rather wished I hadn't investigated the area around the porch, found tree roots coming up in the gap between the house wall and paving! They had rooted into the leaf litter mulch which had dropped into the gap between porch wall and the raised paving, an area about 1 ft deep and wide, 3 ft long. I dug out a good half bucket of mulch and am soaking the roots in a glypsohate solution. Not sure if it will work at all but panicked a bit. Any ideas/advice anyone? I think the roots are most probably coming from the nearby very tall, quite old (50 Yrs?) birch tree the other side of our boundary. Is it worth contacting the Council's Tree department? Don't really want to contact our insurers yet unless we have to, as we have ghastly memories of major remedial works in our old house which took months and was very expensive.
Good evening Forkers. I also loved Doves introduction to the new month.. nothing much happening in Nanny Beach land. Beach doggy walks, lovely and mild today,3 sunny days last week. Cannot believe ruby is only 6 months old, seems like we have had her for ever! She's fast asleep on my feet now. That's impressive Punkdoc,an hour's walk. I know of someone who fractured their hip (younger than me) didn't take notice of the post op instructions for exercising,(spent a lot of time lounging on the sofa)(and has a fall and b******* it up! Normally my tomatoes and peppers are sown and in the kitchen window sill, everything delayed by COVID. Heard from my oldest son at the weekend, posted him off a test....yup,it's positive, first time for him. He's 46, no underlying physical health issues, vaccinated, and surprised at how ill he has felt.
Evening all. Feeling a bit down in the dumps and sorry for myself right now. Managed to get down to see my Doctor this afternoon for not a very satisfactory visit. She is normally so easy to talk to and has all the time in the world for us 'oldies', but today she seemed really harassed and I left without being able to cover the things I needed to ask/confirm. Still we all have bad days and she has been so helpful and caring in the past. However it seems that apart from continuing to take what I have been prescribed there is nothing else she can give me, so it will be up to me to search and try other ideas for myself, which I have been doing anyway with some degree of success.
I then drove home in the dusk and into our dark yard, no outside light on. Got out of the car and up the couple of steps to the front door. Opened the door, stepped up to the top step, put my left leg forwards to step inside and caught my toe on the door jamb. CRASH! On the inside door mat on my hands and knees. Curses uttered as I carefully got up and made for the nearest chair gathering my thoughts and planning my next action as my legs are not too good at supporting me at the best of times. Shuffled across the lounge and into my bedroom to pick up my stick and immediately felt a bit more secure. Shuffled back though the lounge and into kitchen to make a cuppa - good for shock! Assessment shows that no damage has been done, both legs working normally but the left one is really radiating pain upwards and downwards from the knee area and the right one just giving me a bit of jip round the knee. Just hoping they dont seize up overnight and cause me problems trying to stand up tomorrow. Will be taking a couple of pain killers shortly but I dont think I will be going outside for the next day or so. Really cross with myself as I know my limitations and am normally so careful. Not a very good start to February I feel.
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First time I have managed an hours walk today, so pleased.
Best not to be critical of the surgeon, unless you understand hip surgery, and have seen the X-rays. Most surgeons I know want to operate.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Good that you managed a hour's walk, that's fantastic progress.
I rather wished I hadn't investigated the area around the porch, found tree roots coming up in the gap between the house wall and paving! They had rooted into the leaf litter mulch which had dropped into the gap between porch wall and the raised paving, an area about 1 ft deep and wide, 3 ft long. I dug out a good half bucket of mulch and am soaking the roots in a glypsohate solution. Not sure if it will work at all but panicked a bit. Any ideas/advice anyone? I think the roots are most probably coming from the nearby very tall, quite old (50 Yrs?) birch tree the other side of our boundary. Is it worth contacting the Council's Tree department? Don't really want to contact our insurers yet unless we have to, as we have ghastly memories of major remedial works in our old house which took months and was very expensive.
I then drove home in the dusk and into our dark yard, no outside light on. Got out of the car and up the couple of steps to the front door. Opened the door, stepped up to the top step, put my left leg forwards to step inside and caught my toe on the door jamb. CRASH! On the inside door mat on my hands and knees. Curses uttered as I carefully got up and made for the nearest chair gathering my thoughts and planning my next action as my legs are not too good at supporting me at the best of times. Shuffled across the lounge and into my bedroom to pick up my stick and immediately felt a bit more secure. Shuffled back though the lounge and into kitchen to make a cuppa - good for shock!
Assessment shows that no damage has been done, both legs working normally but the left one is really radiating pain upwards and downwards from the knee area and the right one just giving me a bit of jip round the knee. Just hoping they dont seize up overnight and cause me problems trying to stand up tomorrow. Will be taking a couple of pain killers shortly but I dont think I will be going outside for the next day or so. Really cross with myself as I know my limitations and am normally so careful. Not a very good start to February I feel.