MOBILE for the first time in 5 years! =smile=

Fiona

Fiona

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As a few of you know, I have been rehabbing after four knee surgeries last fall. I have been grounded by crippling arthritis for years now.

So I'm pleased to announce that this morning, during early "senior hours" at our local small co-operative grocery store, for the first time in over FIVE YEARS, I got in my car, went shopping, checked out, and finished my business—all by myself.

Forget about the virus: I wore a face covering, and sanitized my hands and even my credit card at multiple points. This is about my legs! I felt so celebratory afterwards, I lined up behind a whole bunch of cars to get a coffee treat at the local Starbuck's drive-through.

And driving, even on the DC Beltway going 65 mph during rush hour (!), feels like I never left it—easy peasy.

Woo hoo! I feel mobile! =silly grin=

Fi
 

Congratulations!! I know just how joyous you feel. Degenerative arthritis in my hips left me pretty much unable to walk without assistance, even for a few steps and I had to use either a wheelchair or a walker. I had both hips replaced in 2013 and the first time I was able to go to the grocery store and actually WALK, I felt like stopping everybody and saying "Look at me, I'm WALKING."

To this day, I still consider it a great gift to be able to walk and have my life back!
 

Fiona....Congratulations....I know arthritis...My Mom had it most of her life... My husband now is having therapy for his legs....
Sometimes he can't even get up from the coach....The Doctor told him how this happens at an older age....My husband
traveled every 5 days to Jersey City and New York for work....He had a van and took people that were going to the city....for 25 years...
So at the age of 74 he is hurting...He hardly cannot walk....He had a bout a couple of years ago...but he felt better....It's back
again because he was doing too much.....He is getting therapy....
Be well, and take it easy.....
 
Congratulations Fiona and Butterfly! I too have had to work hard to regain mobility from various Ortho & related complications. On a walker , had hopes of more work toward a cane this spring, I’m not staying home bound. Am shopping & taking walks about 5 days of 7 while using precautions. More afraid of losing mobility than getting the virus.
 
😉good for you kid!😁
My doc calls it Arthur, he says, 'will you know as you age, Arthur
comes to live with you.'
Thanks doc, that's what I needed to hear.

My thumbs, crawl up on the top of my hand and lock themselves in place. Hurts like the devil.
My wonderful physician says, "well, you know it will get worse."

Indeed, these great healers!
 
Fiona, it is good to read that you are "up and about", not being able to walk without pain is pure misery. Treat yourself well as a way of congratulations. You should grin all day!

My wife had both hips replaced about three years ago. She used a walker for about four days and a cane for a week after that. She is the "Queen of Fast Recovery" according to her Doctor. Within two months, she was back to walking the dogs 1 1/2 miles every day, and within six months she was back to doing Yoga.

I had my left hip replaced about two years ago and was on the walker for about a week before going to the cane where I stayed for another two weeks. Sitting in the waiting room, without a cane, at the four week checkup I got to talking to a woman who was struggling with her walker. I assumed that her operation was very recent and was surprised that her had taken place five months earlier. She asked, and I reluctantly told her that I was at the four week point and had put away the cane at the three week point. She promptly told me that "she hated me." I am glad that I did not comment on how quickly my wife recovered.

Everyone's recovery is different. The Physical Therapist I used actually had a Doctorate degree, so maybe his experience made a difference. These day, I rarely think about that surgery, but every once in awhile I will get a "ping" from my right hip telling me that we probably have a future engagement.

Recovering from hip replacement surgery was a "piece of cake" compared to recovering from rotator cuff surgery. You absolutely don't want to go there unless you absolutely have to.
 
Most things heal in time but feels like it takes forever, living with the pain, awkwardness of not having the normal mobility of your body, the patience it takes and the stress you have to live with.....happened to me for over a year when my ankle broke in three places....
so glad to hear your uplifting story Fiona that gives others suffering, some hope for the future.....
 
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Pecos said:
Fiona, it is good to read that you are "up and about", not being able to walk without pain is pure misery. Treat yourself well as a way of congratulations. You should grin all day!

My wife had both hips replaced about three years ago. She used a walker for about four days and a cane for a week after that. She is the "Queen of Fast Recovery" according to her Doctor. Within two months, she was back to walking the dogs 1 1/2 miles every day, and within six months she was back to doing Yoga.

I had my left hip replaced about two years ago and was on the walker for about a week before going to the cane where I stayed for another two weeks. Sitting in the waiting room, without a cane, at the four week checkup I got to talking to a woman who was struggling with her walker. I assumed that her operation was very recent and was surprised that her had taken place five months earlier. She asked, and I reluctantly told her that I was at the four week point and had put away the cane at the three week point. She promptly told me that "she hated me." I am glad that I did not comment on how quickly my wife recovered.

Everyone's recovery is different. The Physical Therapist I used actually had a Doctorate degree, so maybe his experience made a difference. These day, I rarely think about that surgery, but every once in awhile I will get a "ping" from my right hip telling me that we probably have a future engagement.

Recovering from hip replacement surgery was a "piece of cake" compared to recovering from rotator cuff surgery. You absolutely don't want to go there unless you absolutely have to.
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I also found recovery from the hip replacements to be quite easy and fast. I had very little pain from the surgeries at all, but maybe that's because I was used to so much more pain before that. I was up and about in no time, like your wife. It was positively glorious to be able to do my own shopping, etc., again by myself (it still is). I thought such major surgery would be a very big, scary deal, but it really wasn't at all.
 
Lots of people all over the World are complaining about restrictions
just now and you have been restricted for years, I bet you were tempted
to try a little run whe you were out of the car, don't!

Well done Fiona and I hope that you stay well.

Mike.
 
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