((((Sarah)))) ((((Sandy)))) Thanks for the Easter greetings - I sure hope both of you had a blessed day
I had fun with my friends - went over early to help Mary (my housemate's mother) get ready as she has had some health problems recently - So I dusted her living room, dining room and den, sliced eggs for making deviled eggs, cleaned the patio table, carried things out to the table, bantered with Mary's POSSLQ ( acronym invented by the US Census bureau back in the 60s and means "persons of the opposite sex sharing living quarters") and generally made myself useful :biggrin: I also took a longish walk with my housemate's main squeeze (B) (there needs to be a better word, "girlfriend" just doesn't sound right when they're both in their late 30s, "lady friend" sounds too distant, and significant other, well, that's too general IMO- and at this point anyway they are not officially engaged and do not have POSSLQ status) .... any way she and I and her 5yo daughter (I) walked down Mary's street for about 1/2 mile, found a sadly abandoned house, enjoyed the sunshine and flowers, and walked back - trying to keep up with the 5yo - that part was challenging - but the down hill and then up hill and the walk was not challenging ;) :yes 4:
When we got back the others had arrived
(Mary's sister, S, and her SO L, her daughter R and husband F, their little boy L, and my housemate Eric - a total of 9 adults and 2 kidlets) - and the kids, I and L both age 5, went off on their Easter egg hunt - B had stashed plastic eggs all over the yard and had hidden several toy gifts for each child also - it was great fun watching them discover their treats. The weather was beautiful! Sunny, warm, nice gentle breeze - and Mary's yard was gorgeous with spring flowers and flowering shrubs and trees, a lovely koi pond, and very large lawn for the kids to play on.
Then we ate - and ate - and ate! Grilled chicken, grilled sausages, baked beans made from scratch, shrimp, potato salad, deviled eggs, fruit salad, grilled salmon, several other salads, several kinds of chips and dip - groan - I am so stuffed I could barely waddle out to my car to drive home - and there is a mound of left overs in the fridge that Mary insisted I take along with me.
Last week I spend quite a bit of time cleaning out closets and storage areas - it was so nice to be able to get down on the floor and reach things that needed hauling out into the light of day (some had not seen said day light for years!) and to be able to climb my little step ladder and reach things off the upper shelves - without pain, without worrying about how I was going to get back up - or down, and now the house feels lighter. Spring cleaning for me is clearing space making room for new things and opportunities to come in. Now the back of the car is again filled with things to take to a local charity - Mundane though it maybe this is also a miracle - last year I did not do spring cleaning - nor fall cleaning - because it hurt too much and had I gotten on to the floor I'd probably have had to wait until housemate got home from work before I could get back up! Next week - weather permitting - I start tackling outside storage space! Ready or not, garden shed and under the porch, here I come!
Life on 2 new hips is very good!
I am amazed and grateful every day at this wonder of modern medicine - and grateful for my OS, the hospital, the OS staff, and all the wonderful folks here at BoneSmart! I could not have gotten this far without your support and the wonderful information and experience represented here.
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- saw PT last week after doing their shoulder exercises for a couple of weeks - no improvement and pain was increasing. So she said back off the exercises and just do gentle stretching. She did a gentle session of moving shoulder through passive motions which felt pretty good - but positive effect did not last very long. She also suggested I see my primary care doctor and ask re steroid injection 
