@Layla Mojo Hello, we are home after weeks of excitement and activity! Ireland was gorgeous, just being with family and seeing their gorgeous old farmhouse which we had not been able to visit since they moved in a year ago was fantastic--what a beautiful name Oysterhaven in Southern Ireland where life feels much slower, 5 minute bike ride to the beach, ten minutes to school makes for such a rounded helthiernlifestyle. Plane steps were no problem, only 4 of them! just little diddy planes we all managed meal out and so much fun with the two girls pure bliss. One week home and off we go to the Maldives, we had not been back since we went to celebrate getting over my first infection 6 years ago, so off we go fully prepared for any problems but very confident! Emirites is a wonderful airline, masses of leg room and no difficulty with9 hours to Dubai and then 5 to Male, we booked wheelchair help all the way through and it was brilliant with no problems, I would not have been able to travel without this i would have been walking on my crutches for ever at Dubai, it is enormous but the help was so gracious and kind. At Male we are then onto seaplane, tiny but fine, iit was very rough so for the last 20minutes we had to transfer to speed boat too rough, this was challenging but i just did it slowly, think, onto a raft over open water and leaping and my hipless hip was amazing! no probs. We do like challenges, but it was wonderful, they are the kindest most gracious people, always someone to help. They provided us with 3 wheeler bikes with push handles and gorgeous boys to take us wherever and whenever we wanted, i swam many times a day, slept so much and ate too much, it was a magical holiday to celebrate 50 years of marriage. We are planning our next trip there, but we may need to squeeze Crete in too.
I have to honestly say, although of course I do not want to be disabled, I have managed extraordinarily well and although I did spend much time thinking of my hip, Ihas not phased me at all and if this is to be my life lets roll on and get on with the future, I certainly do not want surgery quickly. CRP on return 6 so all is good my prednisilone is down to 7 from 20 and i shal
now drop 1 mg every 3 weeks for my PMR. Life is good, a spacer is not an ending but a beginning for some of us, we do not have to worry about infection for a time and that is a huge relief.
Be happy everyone, keep well, fight your challenges but most of all stay positive, whats to be will be. Hugsxxx