Yes Lisa, would love to hear from you.. It is strange, but good when our members are off living their lives again.. A good sign, but do pop back now and then and let us know how life is now xx
Hi there!
How nice to see you are asking after me Cardie & Sandy
I've been meaning to drop by for ages- yes, life is busy but I do think of you all often. I'm doing fine and I miss you all but I'd got to a point where I didn't really have a lot to update in terms of personal progress and I was finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with newbies as the forum started to get really busy so I didn't feel that I was much use
Any how here is an update..................
I've joined a gym which has a small swimming pool 10 metres x 5 metres x 1.2m deep and I'm going Tues/Thurs after work and also on Sundays. I've worked out a routine based on the advice of my chiropractor. I do the side leg raises and scissor movements, walk up and down the pool, use a float and do some leg kick lengths and also some breast stroke. I've built up over 3 weeks from 400m in total to 560m last night and I'm pleased with that as I've been out of practise in the 12 months since I 've been back at work.
I 've just had a weekend away with the girls. An exact repeat of last year's shenanigans, 6 of us partying hard in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. We drank Pimms cocktails and danced, we shopped too - even managed a swim on the Sunday morning! Anyway, my big news is that I walked around the shops for almost 2 hours on Saturday afternoon and didn't even need my walking stick once ! It stayed in my handbag and I didn't evevn think about it until I got back to the car nad realised my achievement.
My gait has improved slightly but the physiotherapist and I came to the mutual decision that our relationship wasn't working. I had 3 visits over a period of about 4/5 months where he gave me exercises to do at home...........I started off each time with all good intentions but could not keep motivated to remember to incorporate them into my daily routine. He was able to measure my strength with the weird machine and it did improve after the first visit but not at the third. I've decided to see what happens and not stress about it.
I've still got a few issues with my SI joint and have not got around to trying TENS yet.............but it is much better than it was and I've 'graduated' to monthly appointments with the chiropractor - phew! The fee was eating into my shopping budget. I'm pleased to say that I seem to be trouble free 99% of the time in terms of the Psoas tendonitis - it took 12 months to clear up after overdoing my walking at 5 months post op- word of warning to anyone in the early days, take it easy or you could regret it!
Otherwise my life is pretty much as you are imagining Cardie!
Busy with work, getting to the end of the academic year where it's all about appraisals and self assessment reports - I'm so excited to summarise all the progress my team have made in the past 12 months - we are flying!
We celebrated my mum's 70th birthday last month so that was a lovely family get together. My husband, son and I have a holiday to Egypt to look forward to quite soon - it will be nice to get away from the rain! The garden is very green and hasn't needed watering much, I'd like a bit more sunshine so we can sit out in it but hey - this is England.......I've got some enormous purple lilies just coming into flower.
I'm off on another girlie night this weekend with old friends from my college days. We are going on a Dirty Dancing theme night, there is food followed by a band doing songs from the film -should be good fun. I'm looking forward to a boogie - 2 years ago they went to an ABBA night at the same venue but I didn't go because I wasn't able to dance.
The following weekend we have a 50th birthday party followed by an outdoor music festival the week after........I seem to have a very busy couple of months on the social front!
I think that's me just about up to date............oh, almost forgot - I did the 9 ladies stone circle walk at the beginning of June approx 1-2 miles up hill and down dale on our big annual camping weekend - felt just as exhilarating as last year, but didn't get emotional. Life is great post THR, still thankful each day for being pain free and still don't take it for granted.
love to all my hippie friends xxx
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