It's been how long?

So, it's been eleven, yes ELEVEN weeks since my hip replacement. I've even been back at work for five weeks - where the hell does time go.

What I have learnt is that being positive doesn't make a walking stick go away or weird aches and pains disappear. I can go for a half an hour or so here and there without my stick but something still doesn't feel right.

I'm seeing my surgeon again on June 12th and will have some X-rays. I wonder through a few tears if I'll be like this forever? Certainly my kids won't mind - they've grown accustomed to it

A three month plus recovery period certainly wasn't on the radar.
I've got a lot of running around to do, especially with two kids under ten. Who knows. I might have to pop Bianca's bubbles with a walking stick.

8 weeks post hip replacement

For a week now I've been using my walking stick and could feel my walking gradually improving. Trying to remember the pace at which I last recovered was sketchy so today I popped in to a Physio to get the lay of the land.

I slunk in, knowing that I could have been doing more reps and a more diverse and challenging suite of exercises than what I was currently doing. This was confirmed pretty much straight away when he asked me about my current Physio regime.

Ok so 20 reps of 5 different exercises twice a day would see me walking normally in about 20 years so I'm amping things up.

The Physio gave me a stretchy green rope to attach to a chair so I could introduce some resistance training, that and he nominated and showed me 6 exercises, three lots of 15-20 reps three times a day. I've never exercised that much with normal legs.

Anyway I've set myself a two week challenge so I'll check back at week ten and see whether I'm cane free.