Hi Karen
@copsham Thanks for your visit... always nice to "see" you
I'm so sorry your foot is still giving you so much trouble: I'm not going to say "you'll get there" because I know you KNOW you will, you just don't FEEL like you will, and that plain sucks, so I'll have a little tanty
for you and stamp my feet.... better mine than yours methinks!
I think I'm right in saying that you will be having the plate in your foot removed, if that's the case you will at least know what you're dealing with "properly" then ... and you'll deal with it :cool:
I have to say my hip was good on my trip... to be perfectly honest, and I'm not saying it to be cruel
or to make you feel better... I think I lowered my expectations a little and took the "good" for what it is - good! I stopped thinking that a THR should have fixed
all my aches and pains, and suddenly it felt more successful! My husband said he was going to stop whinging about his aches and pains so I thought I'd give that a try... it made me think about my hip less, at the very least!
I genuinely noticed the improvement because I had something to measure it by; our previous visits to the same region with the same activities on offer, last time there were many I could not do, this time there were few that I could not do.... I wouldn't describe what I DID do as "doing mountain trails", you flatter me
... I stuck to the gentler slopes, NZ is well set up for tourists of all ability levels so it depended on how lazy I was feeling, or if it was raining.... in those instances I used the boardwalks or better trails. On one of the ski fields I did climb a not very high but quite steep "tump" as my Welsh dad would say, and felt the weakness in the glutes AND the satisfaction of having done it pain free! Overall though I could outpace my hubby this time (though his knees are mess, lol) which was great! It was absolutely great to NOT be the one asking to have a rest
It's a couple of weeks over a year since I had the hip done too, and I can't emphasize enough how much difference the last couple of months have made; strength has improved a lot recently, the tendinitis is still "there" but I have learned to manage the balance of rest and exercise better, I think in the end "time is the healer" and what I have done or have not done has made little difference
Having said that stretching is SO helpful and.... it was over 32 Celcius here again today so swimming is back on the agenda (have to have a few hot days to warm the water up) which you know LOVE! It'll be interesting to see if a) my frog kick is more even this year and b) if I'm still nervous to dive in, which I was last year having never been prior to the THR.
I was absolutely paranoid about setting those airport alarms off,
I find a lot of security staff at airports to be arrogant and unpleasant to deal with at the best of times. The guy (very pleasant btw) at Perth when we left said that the newer machines are more finely calibrated and less likely to get triggered by the metal in prosthesis... maybe the one at Jersey is one of the older types
I told someone at every scanner before going through about my hip, they were all good; disinterested at worst and considerate at best.
I didn't want to go in the body scanner either, they had one at Sydney and I asked if I
had to use it (apparently if you are directed by security to use it you MUST) and the lady (again, very pleasant) said nah, just wait in this line.... then the guy in front of me had no end of dramas so I sucked it up and went in the scanner - felt like a bit of a berk standing there with my hands above my head, but not really that big a deal and it only takes a minute all up... the worst part was that the booth thing was up on a little dais, had glass walls and stood out like dogs ba... well you know what it stood out like
seriously, the only thing that could have made it less subtle is neon lights and a big buzzer
So I think I've babbled on enough. I really hope you find some "inner peace" with your foot/hip situation. Of course I really hope you find a miracle solution to one or other or both problems, but failing that I hope you find, no,
re-find coz you've always had it, that strength of character/will to get you through the latest tribulations. It does get better, just not soon enough, but better is, BETTER, so something to look forward to :cool:
Hoppy Healing (see what I did there
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Donna
United Kingdom
