ByGosh
post-grad
Hello dear and wonderful friends!
Kim22 Songlady LeeApril26 (did you travel lately?) Peaches (dear, funny one ) Butterfly (you're having your surgery soon!) Poppet (how are you feeling?) Nannyannie (how's the water therapy?)
zauberflöte (how's the kitties?) Liveringer (are you horseshoeing?) sandybeach Littlejem (how's the Canadian) sqwerlie (how's YOUR Canadian ;) YogaGirl sandpiper nmay51 and whoever else that was nice enough to come and visit the GoshPorch when I've been so astray.
How are you all doing? I have yet to read your posts, but I'm here and I'm doing okay! The prednisone has given me back most of my life and I'm so thankful! I just can't get enough of being up and about. It's a joy just to do laundry (I know, that's hard to believe!) and to be able to run an errand, and take a short walk with the dogs. I laid on the couch in pain for so long, I vowed never to go back, no matter what. It's obvious that I do have some sort of soft tissue inflammation/tendonitis because the prednisone is helping. I've been on it now for 6 weeks and am slowly weaning off of it. I don't know what will happen as I cut the dose more and more, because I still have pain, somedays quite a bit, but I'm confident that there will be an answer and I can continue to move forward.
As I got back into more normal activity, I felt my body getting back to near normal for me. I became less stiff, more limber, stronger, more flexible the more and more I moved about. Now except for the days of pain, I'm about 75% or more back to my old me. This may be as good as it's going to get, but as long as I can get up and move, do things without severe pain, it's all good. I'll take it.
I manage to go "swimming" every day, and it's been good. I use a waist buoy and sort of "bicycle" or "jog" down the lane. It feels a lot better on my hip/groin area that being face down in the water trying to swim. There's a lot less pull on my hip area, and it has strengthened my leg muscles a lot. I also do stretches and leg exercises, gently, and water walk. I think it's very good therapy for the hips - it give lots of easy muscle exercise without the weight of gravity, like walking on the sidewalks. It certainly helped me.
Well, my youngest GoshGirl is back at college and doing well. She seems all recovered from here surgery, and has a follow up appointment this week. My GoshHusband has his lung surgery scheduled for Nov. 7th, so I'm trying to get prepared for that. The surgeon said he'll be tired for a month afterward, and knowing surgeons and how they seem to make light of the post-op period (that's my own experience), I'm thinking he may be quite exhausted for a while. Since he still does the grocery shopping (I can't quite manage all of that yet) and most of the cooking, I'd like to try to prepare some meals in advance and freeze them. So I'll be working on that soon.
What else can I say, except that I miss all of you and hope you are all fairing well. I'm trying to get on with life, so I have been neglecting my thread and I'm sorry for not checking in more regularly. I think of you all very often and send you all the best.
Let's meet on the GoshPorch for brunch! I'll bring the scones, apple bread and a quiche and let's see what you can come up with. I'm sure it'll be delicious and so much fun to get together. Keep up the good work of supporting each other, there's no place better for friendship and understanding than these threads.
I'll catch up more later. Love you all and miss you, too. ByGosh
Kim22 Songlady LeeApril26 (did you travel lately?) Peaches (dear, funny one ) Butterfly (you're having your surgery soon!) Poppet (how are you feeling?) Nannyannie (how's the water therapy?)
zauberflöte (how's the kitties?) Liveringer (are you horseshoeing?) sandybeach Littlejem (how's the Canadian) sqwerlie (how's YOUR Canadian ;) YogaGirl sandpiper nmay51 and whoever else that was nice enough to come and visit the GoshPorch when I've been so astray.
How are you all doing? I have yet to read your posts, but I'm here and I'm doing okay! The prednisone has given me back most of my life and I'm so thankful! I just can't get enough of being up and about. It's a joy just to do laundry (I know, that's hard to believe!) and to be able to run an errand, and take a short walk with the dogs. I laid on the couch in pain for so long, I vowed never to go back, no matter what. It's obvious that I do have some sort of soft tissue inflammation/tendonitis because the prednisone is helping. I've been on it now for 6 weeks and am slowly weaning off of it. I don't know what will happen as I cut the dose more and more, because I still have pain, somedays quite a bit, but I'm confident that there will be an answer and I can continue to move forward.
As I got back into more normal activity, I felt my body getting back to near normal for me. I became less stiff, more limber, stronger, more flexible the more and more I moved about. Now except for the days of pain, I'm about 75% or more back to my old me. This may be as good as it's going to get, but as long as I can get up and move, do things without severe pain, it's all good. I'll take it.
I manage to go "swimming" every day, and it's been good. I use a waist buoy and sort of "bicycle" or "jog" down the lane. It feels a lot better on my hip/groin area that being face down in the water trying to swim. There's a lot less pull on my hip area, and it has strengthened my leg muscles a lot. I also do stretches and leg exercises, gently, and water walk. I think it's very good therapy for the hips - it give lots of easy muscle exercise without the weight of gravity, like walking on the sidewalks. It certainly helped me.
Well, my youngest GoshGirl is back at college and doing well. She seems all recovered from here surgery, and has a follow up appointment this week. My GoshHusband has his lung surgery scheduled for Nov. 7th, so I'm trying to get prepared for that. The surgeon said he'll be tired for a month afterward, and knowing surgeons and how they seem to make light of the post-op period (that's my own experience), I'm thinking he may be quite exhausted for a while. Since he still does the grocery shopping (I can't quite manage all of that yet) and most of the cooking, I'd like to try to prepare some meals in advance and freeze them. So I'll be working on that soon.
What else can I say, except that I miss all of you and hope you are all fairing well. I'm trying to get on with life, so I have been neglecting my thread and I'm sorry for not checking in more regularly. I think of you all very often and send you all the best.
Let's meet on the GoshPorch for brunch! I'll bring the scones, apple bread and a quiche and let's see what you can come up with. I'm sure it'll be delicious and so much fun to get together. Keep up the good work of supporting each other, there's no place better for friendship and understanding than these threads.
I'll catch up more later. Love you all and miss you, too. ByGosh