What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Colder weather feels like winter. Left hip has been bothering me for some time. Time to get it checked out. Long process due to insurance. See primary care doctor Friday then referral to Ortho doctor. Likely a long wait. I fear it may lead to surgery.

I hope you feel better Jerry, and that it’s NOT a slow process.

For what it’s worth, my father in law had hip surgery and he gets around much better. He doesn’t even use a cane and he’s 87.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Baker Creek sent me some Landis Winter Lettuce (free seed) so I planted a bunch of it this afternoon. Saw some volunteers from the spring lettuce planting... I think it's romaine but I'm not 100% certain. I will need to look back over my notes and see what else I planted.

 

[fuzzi]

Colder weather feels like winter. Left hip has been bothering me for some time. Time to get it checked out. Long process due to insurance. See primary care doctor Friday then referral to Ortho doctor. Likely a long wait. I fear it may lead to surgery.

If you need a total hip replacement let me assure you, it's not usually a bad thing. I could barely walk when I had my THR and was back to work in 7 weeks. Knee replacements are much harder.

 

[WthrLady]

Neighbor had bother her hips done, six months apart, last year. She was back to work in a week. He came up with this way of moving the muscle around the hip and joint that needs replacing and it cuts recovery time to a crazy short period. She was driving on her own in a month, and is back to riding horses now.

 

[WthrLady]

14 types of cookies, brownies, bars, rummy balls, macaroons, hand poured chocolates - dozens upon dozens of them
22 cookie tins
and
4 party sized platters
all sorted and packed and ready for delivery tomorrow

 

[TJAnonymous]

If you need a total hip replacement let me assure you, it's not usually a bad thing. I could barely walk when I had my THR and was back to work in 7 weeks. Knee replacements are much harder.

My MIL had a knee replacement in late October. She still isn't able to walk more than 20 ft or so.

 

[CNJ]

I just found out that I was supposed to eat dry Spanish Chorizo as is without cooking. I remember buying a gallon can of dry Spanish Chorizo from my local supermarket, but cooked some and didn't really care for them. I must try thin slices of them like Serrano ham.

 

[jerryse]

If you need a total hip replacement let me assure you, it's not usually a bad thing. I could barely walk when I had my THR and was back to work in 7 weeks. Knee replacements are much harder.

I had my right knee replaced 2 years ago. For me it was a brutal process. It was 6 months before I thought it was worth it. At 8 weeks postop I told the PT that I was no better than the day before surgery.

 

[Sally PB]

I had my right knee replaced 2 years ago. For me it was a brutal process. It was 6 months before I thought it was worth it. At 8 weeks postop I told the PT that I was no better than the day before surgery.

Well, this doesn't sound very encouraging. Not for me, for my neighbor. She was going to have it done last Tuesday, then it got bumped to early January. Now I'm wondering if that'll happen, as she had a heart attack last Wednesday.

We talked with her husband this morning. All the "heart stuff tubes" are out, but she had difficulty breathing last night.

 

[Smokerbill]

I had my right knee replaced 2 years ago. For me it was a brutal process. It was 6 months before I thought it was worth it. At 8 weeks postop I told the PT that I was no better than the day before surgery.

My right knee has been in pretty bad shape for the last few years. After several cortisone injections, a couple times a year, I had a series of three hyaluronic acid gel injections into my knee last December. That did a great job at relieving the pain, and the knee still feels pretty good a year later. No cortisone injections this year, either.

I know a knee replacement is in the future for me, but I'm doing all I can to delay the operation. I'll put it off for as long as I can function well enough to get things done without intolerable pain.