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    THR Concerned about long lay off from swimming?

    One of my new swimming friends had a total hip replacement last week. She described it as an "s-rom", a technique new to her, used because her hip was said to be deformed, hardly surprising, since this is her 3rd hip operation, at the age of 40, the others being in her childhood. I have...
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    THR staffsknot story so far

    It seems a long time, over 4 years, since I went through all this. A friend is just undergoing the same experience and wanted some moral support so a wrote her this little rhyme, which she said made her laugh. So just on the offchance that anybody else out there has a sense of humour that...
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    THR staffsknot story so far

    Hallo, fellow recoverers. It's almost three years now since THR on the right. The left is starting to make grumbles but I'm hoping it may be quite a time before I have to take a break from active life to have it sorted out. Then I will be back on here doing more than my fair share of weeping and...
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    THR 999 days ago

    Hi, Lisa, It's good to hear from you and learn that you are doing well and enjoying life again, at the end of your thousand Thank goodness you are Lisa of a Thousand Days, or you would be waving goodbye to your head round about now, and we definitely can't have that. I've been doing a lot of...
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    THR staffsknot story so far

    Hallo, Folks, Thank you for all your good wishes and congatulations about the cold water swimming. It is getting more popular in UK now, but at the Great Chill Swim at Windermere in February, the Russians and Latvians certainly showed us how to do it. Anybody interested could follow...
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    THR staffsknot story so far

    I'm sorry I haven't been a better communicator over recent months. It's partly because whatever I wanted to say to people by way of advice was pretty much what other, far better qualified people were already saying, with a far better level of expertise than I could ever muster. The rest of what...
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    THR staffsknot story so far

    Hallo, Friends, One or two people asked me to return if I managed to reach either of two goals. The first was to climb a big British hill, or mountain, as we call them. The other was to swim at least a mile in open water. Before I do that I want to emphasise that there is absolutely nothing...
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    THR What's realistic?

    Hallo Aptos and Poppet, First, Aptos. You've had a bunch of good advice, admittedly from a small group of people, but that's how it is when you are male and round about 70. You just have to get used to it. I'll continue to give you the benefit if you promise to help me with my catch. It looks...
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    THR What's realistic?

    Hallo, Aptos Gimp, You might be me, the me, that is, of a year and a half ago. I too had been a swimmer, though, by the sound of it, nowhere near as fast and active as you. I agree with the others. No matter how brilliant you feel you were before the hip trouble came, you are at the moment...
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    Meds and swimming

    Hallo, Joanna, I am swimming breaststroke at about three quarter pressure with the leg at 18 months after the operation. Whenever I tried earlier, say, at 8 months in, it very easily caused soreness in the mending tissues, and I had to back off and wait as little longer. Crawl, or freestyle...
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    THR staffsknot story so far

    Wasn't going to post until the year and a half mark, but there have been some significant developments in the last week or two, that I think you maybe ought to know about especially if you, like me, are finding the road to recovery a long and winding one. The first thing is that I am aware...
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    Hip Resurfacing 8 weeks Post Hip Arthroscopy

    Hallo, CM, I think where pain is concerned in any possible procedures, there are lots of things to think about, and I would reduce them to two. First is the fact that there is a huge variety of different reactions to a similar level of pain. Where person A would find a kind of post operation...
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    Now What? - New Pain

    Hallo, Nancy, I remember you from about a year ago. Nice to hear from you again. But not nice to hear that you have hit a bad patch. I agree with Jo about the chair. If we are sitting for long periods in discomfort, something may well complain. I think there are two other aspects here for...
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    THR staffsknot story so far

    Hi, Diane, Unfortunately we don't live near this pool. It is at Los Cristianos, Tenerife. Our local river is at 10 degs C, as is the sea in Cornwall, South West England. Went in swimming with 8 year old granddaughter. Even with wet suits on we both came out with blue fingers and toes. We...
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    Bilateral THR Slower recovery than expected

    Hallo, Provrb, I believe there must be some kind of conspiracy to undermine and sap the confidence of people like ourselves. In it, the victim, you, me and all the rest on here, are told by half informed or uninformed people that recovering is going to be a gentle breeze. They all know...
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