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Australia@Layla thank you for your lovely post. You are so kind and supportive! @BeBe I greatly appreciate your post!
My update: I have been plugging along. I am walking approximately 3000 - 4000 steps per day according to my FitBit. I am still having to use my hiking poles. I wonder if I’ll ever feel comfortable enough to walk without something.
I have walked to the mailboxes a couple times since the last time, but that uphill coming back is still terribly painful, so I’ve started walking the opposite direction on our deadend dirt road. It’s the same distance, but a flatter surface. I walk to the end. I’ve done that about three or four times. I also have another long walk I use where I walk to the bottom of our back paddock (rugged and uphill coming back), then across the back fenceline to the side fenceline and back up to the other side of our house. A couple times I’ve kept going up past the house to our smaller front paddock - to the front fenceline then across to the other side then back to the middle where the gate is and across our yard to the house. (Haha! I need a map for you all!). The long walks average anywhere from 1000 to 1600 steps. About a half mile. I usually do one long walk per day and at least two smaller ones.
But the pain is still there. And the feeling of joint instability in my SI joints and lower back. I am also still unable to ride in the car or sit without a lot of pain.
My doctor/specialist came today. He said I am moving much better and the pain is to be expected. He also did some PT release work on my left leg. That leg seems very stiff in the thigh when I walk. He said it’s all to do with getting the right muscle/joint balance. He also said the pain in my right operated hip (the outside of the hip, where I feel pain the most) would still be from the tendon repair there. So that’s a relief. Was worried something was wrong.
He will continue to work with me to try to get the muscles looser and working more easily. I am so fortunate to have him. I think I am a challenge to him. He said his goal is to be able to take me to see a Richmond Tigers football game. They are the team I barrack for, and he used to be their team doctor and is a lifetime member of the club. I can’t imagine doing that at this stage. Time will tell.
Well, I did natter on, eh?
BeBe did you do the mailboxes walk? If so, please tell me how you went! My first time I thought I wouldn’t make it back. It does sound as though you and I are going through similar challenges. Keep me posted!
And thank you both. I haven’t updated because I still can’t say everything’s great and still doubt my progress. I am very upset that travel is still impossible for me. If I could somehow get on top of that I would be one happy camper.
Hugs to you both!
My update: I have been plugging along. I am walking approximately 3000 - 4000 steps per day according to my FitBit. I am still having to use my hiking poles. I wonder if I’ll ever feel comfortable enough to walk without something.
I have walked to the mailboxes a couple times since the last time, but that uphill coming back is still terribly painful, so I’ve started walking the opposite direction on our deadend dirt road. It’s the same distance, but a flatter surface. I walk to the end. I’ve done that about three or four times. I also have another long walk I use where I walk to the bottom of our back paddock (rugged and uphill coming back), then across the back fenceline to the side fenceline and back up to the other side of our house. A couple times I’ve kept going up past the house to our smaller front paddock - to the front fenceline then across to the other side then back to the middle where the gate is and across our yard to the house. (Haha! I need a map for you all!). The long walks average anywhere from 1000 to 1600 steps. About a half mile. I usually do one long walk per day and at least two smaller ones.
But the pain is still there. And the feeling of joint instability in my SI joints and lower back. I am also still unable to ride in the car or sit without a lot of pain.
My doctor/specialist came today. He said I am moving much better and the pain is to be expected. He also did some PT release work on my left leg. That leg seems very stiff in the thigh when I walk. He said it’s all to do with getting the right muscle/joint balance. He also said the pain in my right operated hip (the outside of the hip, where I feel pain the most) would still be from the tendon repair there. So that’s a relief. Was worried something was wrong.
He will continue to work with me to try to get the muscles looser and working more easily. I am so fortunate to have him. I think I am a challenge to him. He said his goal is to be able to take me to see a Richmond Tigers football game. They are the team I barrack for, and he used to be their team doctor and is a lifetime member of the club. I can’t imagine doing that at this stage. Time will tell.
Well, I did natter on, eh?
BeBe did you do the mailboxes walk? If so, please tell me how you went! My first time I thought I wouldn’t make it back. It does sound as though you and I are going through similar challenges. Keep me posted!
And thank you both. I haven’t updated because I still can’t say everything’s great and still doubt my progress. I am very upset that travel is still impossible for me. If I could somehow get on top of that I would be one happy camper.
Hugs to you both!
and see how you're doing.
