Hello fellow Bone-smartie friends. I haven't been posting much, but I do try to keep up with the conversations, usually by way of my iPhone; the screen keyboard is so teensy that I can't face trying to type out any posts. However I'm on the 'big' laptop today, so thought I'd sail in with an update.
As for how my hips have been doing recently, I can't say because I've spent a lot of the past three weeks laid out with a virus. It was a weird one, seemed to go on forever, but at last I am well again, out and about--just in time to hop on a plane tomorrow for my long-planned visit to England.
After surgery last July, I was idly checking flights available with my collected air miles, and discovered there was only
one single seat left (bookable with air miles) from YVR to LHR in all of May, June, July and August-- and that was for May 5th. So I booked it, thinking I could cancel if it didn't work out. However it is actually going forward, and indeed it has been a good thing to have something to look forward to during convalescence, and during my more recently illness. I won't be doing much gallivanting about over there, but rather spend most of the time staying with my childhood friend in her countryside home, chatting and sewing and sitting in the garden like Jane and Cassandra Austen. We discuss books and such; hoping to stay entirely away from politics.
Happily there is a swimming pool in the local village, so I hope to get there regularly and build up my strength, as
@SurreyGirl is doing at her posh club ;) I feel rather weak and pathetic right now, and have slid backwards in strength and what little agility I had. Not-yet-operated left hip has been quiet, but I haven't been testing it. Operated rightie seems okay, no disability or pain to speak of, but then again I haven't been doing much, so no boundary-pushing. I am surprised that the THR scar has faded so much, but there is a considerable dip in my hip--a veritable 'bowl'. I wonder if the muscle can be built up again to fill it out? I guess I will find out.
As for dancing (this is for you
@Going4fun ) I haven't been doing much. When I get stronger and fitter again, I will try some solo/freestyle dancing. I'm wondering if I can build up enough muscle in my bad left hip to sustain me for more partner dancing, or if that is a no-go until leftie gets its major makeover. Again, I guess I'll find out.
oh--and my brain fog is getting better and better. It's only foggy part of the time now, and have stopped wandering from room to room, wondering what I'm doing there
cheers all