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craftdee
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AustraliaHi @Gilly Glad you're enjoying my posts, and if it's helping your recovery that's a real bonus - it's certainly helping mine, I have a family of men and they're not into "sharing" like us ladies are... they are all lovely, but they just want to know how to fix it - they don't get the value of getting it out there
I'm from Perth, the Northern Suburbs - only about 14 kms out... not like where a lot of our work is - about 40 or 45 kms out!! We've been to Brisbane and the GC, went for a dance competition in Brisbane and as the boys were still youngish we went to the GC while we were over there, had a fab time. Brisbane and Perth are very similar, both of about the same vintage and built on mineral wealth - of course Perth is better
actually it IS prettier because we have an awesome river and a huge bay called Perth Water that the city is next to... and our forefathers thought to save a huge area of the very best high land as a park (Kings Park) so everyone gets to share really exceptional views, and there's real bush on the city's doorstep. Brisbane has the advantage that it's only a couple of hours from Sydney and Melbourne.. and NZ!
We've been to New Zealand twice, the first time we went from Christchurch across to the West Coast, down to Queenstown then back out from ChCh. The second time we went from ChCh (hubby has family there) up to the Able Tasman for a week (FABULOUS, very sore legs!!) then on the InterIslander and took a week to wend our way through Rotorua, Mt Manganui and the Coramandels etc and left from Auckland. Next time we're going to "do" the South of the South Island (Milford Sound etc) and the North of the North Island (Bay of Isles etc) We really love NZ, it's set up for tourism without feeling "touristy"... Tasmania could take a lesson from you guys, they just don't want to let anyone in at all! We went to Tassie before NZ, and once we'd seen NZ we describe it as "Tasmania on Steroids"... everything we liked about Tassie scaled UP. I lived in Wales for years and my Mum is Scottish and the South Island in particular has a feel of those places - as well as it's "New Zealandness", like those braided rivers... and the North Islands volcanic looking hills, just great:cool:
It's a six hour flight direct from here so we always stop off in one of the Eastern capitals to break the journey, usually Melbourne but we did come back via Sydney the second time so we could walk across the top of the Harbour Bridge, which was awesome... I have the photo they took (we paid the extra and went up at sunset) on my cabinet and everyone thinks it's a backdrop, but it really is Sydney on that day! When the family come over from ChCh they fly direct - but the time difference alone stuffs them up for a day or so, so I reckon our way's better
Happy Healing
I'm from Perth, the Northern Suburbs - only about 14 kms out... not like where a lot of our work is - about 40 or 45 kms out!! We've been to Brisbane and the GC, went for a dance competition in Brisbane and as the boys were still youngish we went to the GC while we were over there, had a fab time. Brisbane and Perth are very similar, both of about the same vintage and built on mineral wealth - of course Perth is better
actually it IS prettier because we have an awesome river and a huge bay called Perth Water that the city is next to... and our forefathers thought to save a huge area of the very best high land as a park (Kings Park) so everyone gets to share really exceptional views, and there's real bush on the city's doorstep. Brisbane has the advantage that it's only a couple of hours from Sydney and Melbourne.. and NZ!We've been to New Zealand twice, the first time we went from Christchurch across to the West Coast, down to Queenstown then back out from ChCh. The second time we went from ChCh (hubby has family there) up to the Able Tasman for a week (FABULOUS, very sore legs!!) then on the InterIslander and took a week to wend our way through Rotorua, Mt Manganui and the Coramandels etc and left from Auckland. Next time we're going to "do" the South of the South Island (Milford Sound etc) and the North of the North Island (Bay of Isles etc) We really love NZ, it's set up for tourism without feeling "touristy"... Tasmania could take a lesson from you guys, they just don't want to let anyone in at all! We went to Tassie before NZ, and once we'd seen NZ we describe it as "Tasmania on Steroids"... everything we liked about Tassie scaled UP. I lived in Wales for years and my Mum is Scottish and the South Island in particular has a feel of those places - as well as it's "New Zealandness", like those braided rivers... and the North Islands volcanic looking hills, just great:cool:
It's a six hour flight direct from here so we always stop off in one of the Eastern capitals to break the journey, usually Melbourne but we did come back via Sydney the second time so we could walk across the top of the Harbour Bridge, which was awesome... I have the photo they took (we paid the extra and went up at sunset) on my cabinet and everyone thinks it's a backdrop, but it really is Sydney on that day! When the family come over from ChCh they fly direct - but the time difference alone stuffs them up for a day or so, so I reckon our way's better
Happy Healing
I've tried to walk as she's said since, it's now not that smooth, and really tiring, I will persevere for a while at least. I have to go back in January - mainly because the Physio wants to see me AFTER my OS clearance of restrictions - I'm feeling at this point that the Friday appointment was, well, superfluous
She suggested I get "someone" to do trigger point massage, so I'll discuss that with our massage place when we go this week, a self-help option for the truly desperate is to get a tennis ball or similar (I'm not very big, so she thought a slightly smaller ball would be better... where do you get undersized tennis balls???
) and put it on the trigger point then lean on it - standing is better so I presume "leaning" is against a counter or something, she wasn't that clear! The muscle tightness in the back of my leg apparently "may" be to do with the piriformis, she has suggested hamstring stretches. 
or Stomach Flu as the more polite refer to it, polite not being my strong suit... I call it what it is, bwah hah. My DIL had it on Thursday, and called her Mum in to help with the twins (Emily started it by upchucking everywhere on Wednesday night... then having the gall to be completely fine!!) I know how hard it is to look after them on your own at "our" age so I went over in the afternoon to share duty. When my hubby got home I got him to have a quick shower, came home picked him up and took him back to theirs... my DIL was still in bed, really unwell. We did the evening shift... dinner, bath, bottle, teeth, bed... as my son ended up working until after 8pm (long day, he's up at 5.30 for a 6am start) They were angels, which was nice, but I think that one of two things happened to cause me to "catch" the bug: a) Bragging that I "never get sick" or b) Having a reduced immunity because of this surgery and the other health issues I've had through the year - personally I'm betting on a)... the universe doesn't like braggers
Mind you I did spend the morning sitting around doing NOTHING, which I rarely do, or at least rarely enjoy like I did today. This afternoon we went Christmas shopping, it was civilized so that was good, but I did notice that my leg/hip stiffened up quite a lot and pretty quickly - I don't know if I noticed it because I didn't have any Pandol on board, or if it was because we were walking quite fast (hubby is over a foot taller than me, we both compromise in our "stride' but he compromises less, lol) and I was wearing heels, or because I was trying to do the "proper" walk... or a combination of some or all these things. There wasn't "pain" just that tightness again, where I find I'm taking smaller and smaller steps!!
The other thing I've noticed, and it is a HUGE plus on it's own, is that - even when the hip feels much the same as it did pre op (minus the bone on bone pain of course), like it did a bit today, I DON'T have the lower back ache that I had pre op, certainly not to the same degree... it was debilitating on it's own and now a minor niggle at worse so 
for that!!!!
you're wearing heels? I've been so afraid to do so . . . I'm not sure why but that's something I didn't even consider? Its been soooooo long since I wore heels?
I am no masochist, so I will take the squash ball option, good thinking thanks.
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'We've known each other since I was 15 (well we didn't actually start "going out" until I was nearly 18) he was a friend of my Sister's first husband - the friendship and the husband didn't last but hubby and I did You might just get to meet him when you come to Oz "someday" :cool:
snapping out of it a bit now. I'm going to have my swim then go and see the twinnies, that always makes my day - and makes me remember what I did this for!
I survived my night of heels! Another first! 
They look at least as safe as a horse to me 
Nobody's said if and/or when I get to hear the results. The RA guy said he was looking at RA and SLE primarily; I figure if I've got it I've had it for a while so no need to rush to find a solution, and if I haven't then there's no rush to do anything, so I'll just wait until someone taps me on the shoulder
, and some paperwork 
and housework 
