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The next stage

Yesterday – five weeks and counting after my hip replacement operation – I went for my first physio session. Regular followers may recall that I only reached this stage because a couple of weeks ago, puzzled that I hadn’t already been called for physio as I understood would be the case, I [...]

August 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Grrrrrrr ….

Later today I shall be completing my original course of meds following my hip replacement operation in mid-July. Since emerging from hospital three days after going under the knife I have been wearing compression socks (designed to prevent deep vein thrombosis issues) most of the time and consuming [...]

August 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hip-watch: probably about three stars out of five so far

Next Friday afternoon it will have been four weeks since I had my hip replacement operation and just two weeks until – received opinion has it – most people who’ve had the procedure are advised that they can return to work. Having made spectacular progress in the first couple of weeks as a [...]

August 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A mid-afternoon incident

Here’s the latest in my occasional reports from the front line of recovering from a hip replacement operation. Yesterday I had nothing more planned than a ‘slow’ day at home – this after 48 hours of ‘not doing so well’ that involved a work-related outing requiring a couple of hours [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Drugs – it’s one way or the other

No apologies here for posting another round in the Rust‘s reporting of sports cheating via the use of performance-enhancing drugs and yes, it concerns Russia and the 2016 Rio Olympics which begin about a week from now. My subject today is not the fact that my old pal Vladimir Putin who [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time – and coming to terms with it

Yesterday the media was running a story about the results of a survey commissioned by housing finance specialist Homewise. Apart from a worrying general conclusion that over 10% of participant Over-60 retirees were dissatisfied with their lives, financial worries and/or ‘a sense of not having [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Three steps forward and then … er … one going nowhere

By Friday afternoon this week it will have been exactly a fortnight since I had my hip replacement operation and my post today is a report upon how things have been going. This is not going to be heavy stuff – I’m nothing special in the category of those who have had hip replacements and I very [...]

July 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Getting used to it

Well, that’s my hip operation and hospital-stay recovery over, and now I’m back at home feeling tired, battered but also happy to be less institutionalised than I was over the weekend. My days currently consist of four bouts of taking between 3 and 6 pills at a time during my waking hours (a [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all in the mind – or is it?

For someone who played a lot of sport in my youth, albeit in a ‘keen but averagedly talented’ fashion, I reckon I’m in reasonable shape. I’ve had the occasional twinge over the years – e.g. two broken matatarsals in my feet (one retaining its metal pin some four [...]

July 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

That’s life

You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men? Well sometimes it comes true. After yesterday’s opener in what I had intended might be a gritty, blow by blow, series of reports from the front line by a gentleman of a certain vintage – plainly one a little beyond the [...]

July 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

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