skigirl
Former BoneSmart staff member
- Joined
- May 5, 2009
- Messages
- 13,596
- Age
- 80
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
- Country
United States
- Gender
- Female
This weekend, I did my first hike in Glacier Park in three years. It is amazing to me how narrow my life had grown. I gave up hiking almost without knowing it. It just seemed like I was "too busy" or the hike was "too long or too hard". Of course it was too hard, since my knee hurt--but I would never admit that I was stopping activities because of knee pain. I did not need a knee replacement.
It was so exciting to me to hike to Avalanche Lake this weekend. It was four miles round trip and I did it while chatting and laughing with friends who were here for the weekend. I had no pain and in fact, did not think of my knee for most of the time. when we got to the car, I realized that I was not limping, I was not hoping that I had some pain med in the car----instead I was laughing and looking forward to a budweiser with lime that was in the ice chest. In short---my old life is back with me!!!
I am eleven weeks into this sage and I did dispair at the beginning. It seemed like I was so much worse off that I had been before the surgery. I never dreamed that I would be hiking again--WITH NO KNEE PAIN---in Glacier park this summer.
In two weeks, I am hiking my favorite hike to Iceberg Lake which is ten miles round trip. I am going with friends and am so looking forward to striding through this beautiful park. In the meantime, I have scheduled some easier hikes to keep my form in. and the huckleberries are ripe and I can even bushwack through all kinds of brush to get at them.
Last week I was picking berries with friends and we were talking and laughing. Suddenly, I looked up and realized that we were going to have to go up a scree field (loose gravel) that was about 30 feet straight up. My friends looked at me and said, Can you? I started up and it was a piece of cake---last year I would not even have tried to do it. I scrambled up and then had to help one of my friends get up too. Yeah!! this living stuff is fun!!! I had almost forgotton my great love of the mountains and of wandering around them at will. Thank you new knee!!!
It was so exciting to me to hike to Avalanche Lake this weekend. It was four miles round trip and I did it while chatting and laughing with friends who were here for the weekend. I had no pain and in fact, did not think of my knee for most of the time. when we got to the car, I realized that I was not limping, I was not hoping that I had some pain med in the car----instead I was laughing and looking forward to a budweiser with lime that was in the ice chest. In short---my old life is back with me!!!
I am eleven weeks into this sage and I did dispair at the beginning. It seemed like I was so much worse off that I had been before the surgery. I never dreamed that I would be hiking again--WITH NO KNEE PAIN---in Glacier park this summer.
In two weeks, I am hiking my favorite hike to Iceberg Lake which is ten miles round trip. I am going with friends and am so looking forward to striding through this beautiful park. In the meantime, I have scheduled some easier hikes to keep my form in. and the huckleberries are ripe and I can even bushwack through all kinds of brush to get at them.
Last week I was picking berries with friends and we were talking and laughing. Suddenly, I looked up and realized that we were going to have to go up a scree field (loose gravel) that was about 30 feet straight up. My friends looked at me and said, Can you? I started up and it was a piece of cake---last year I would not even have tried to do it. I scrambled up and then had to help one of my friends get up too. Yeah!! this living stuff is fun!!! I had almost forgotton my great love of the mountains and of wandering around them at will. Thank you new knee!!!
