Been A While

See, I have nothing to report. Lots of walking, no pain. I am going to start working on doing Bloomsday, a 7 k in Spokane. I really thing that would be a good thing to do. So tonight, I will walk around the block. Twice. A start.....

Been to the doctor and I must make my Butt bigger or words you never thought you would ever hear in your lifetime.

WE are to see each other only on an annual basis. Once a year to be exact. I am free to bend and stretch but no Mt. Everest this year. My butt is not big enough and I must work on that aspect of my anatomy.

I guess that when they cut through the Gluts, miminus, medius and maximus, and I sort of limped for several years and used a cane for 6 months, it made them smaller. So I am off to do some walking that makes me use them and concentrate on steady and equal length gait.

I also have to do some work on my balance. I understand now that the reason there is no incision pain is that the nerves are severed and they now are a bit confused. They will re-grow but the rest of them don't really understand the whole new metal hip thing. Oh well, we all have lots of new things to learn.

More Walking, Balancing and ......

Lots of sun, this is going to be short. PT a good thing. Three months with a new hip, a good thing. Still working on making my butt muscles bigger. Who would have ever thought that would be a goal.

I am not able to walk as far as I want to be able to walk. I am wondering if a short week-end cruise might be a better option for the first week-end in May... I am sure I could get a tee shirt.....

Happy Easter, St. Patrick's day, First Day of Spring, Daffodil time. Pick your holiday.

PT Persitantly Trying

We are just working out the old muscles. Stretch here, contract here. Try and walk like a real person. Try to walk further and further. Try not to limp. Try again.

Not much else to report other than this week has been weird. I have been screwed up on dates and times and months. No I did not sit in front of St. Joe's and wait for the Novena to begin a week early. I did not order disk 2 before disk 1. I did not ...... I am sure there are other things but they are just not going to be mentioned.

I did have the house ready for the housekeeper. I did not buy anything this week, (I gave up consumerism for lent.) I did take the dogs for some longer walks. I cooked the chicken that I thawed. I met with some clients and started new projects.

See progress can be made.

Maybe this week-end we can plant some trees and work on the back of the house. The birds are tweeting, we need to get ready for spring too.

Bit by Bit

I am moving past "sedentary" (Less than 5000) steps a day. I am trying to do that in a walk every other day. So things are better.

Dr. Crucher is sending me to PT, finally...... He told me to slow down that if I had not let the tendons and ligaments he tugged on so effectivly heal that I would just be popping out of that new socket and then I would learn.
We have a good relationship.

This turned out to be the week-end that wasn't. It wasn't a trip to Whidby with quilting friends. It was not a trip to Sun Valley for M-E with Whitney to visit Vickie Sutter.

I did have a visit from Carolyn Baker and we chatted and did some quilting. I did finish a back. I slept until noon. I guess that it was a sucess.

I want to get around Green Lake by the end of the month.

Some Times you are not able to do what you want to do....

So, it sort of goes like this. I am zooming along. Using my cane less, walking around the house without it. Taking the dogs for longer and longer walks.
Down the street
Around the Block, with lots of resting
Around the block,
Up a couple of blocks and then around,
Down to the copier,
Back to the kitchen,
Down to visit another Lawyer
Down for coffee
Walk a block to a resuarant because there is no parking in a lot
Up a flight of stairs,

Getting back to more normal life. Realizing that there has beeen big big hunks of it missing. THEN.........
Tuesday last, getting into the car and :SOB sudden and unexplained Shortness of Breath. Out of no where.

First thought: I am doing to much.
Go home, crawl in bed: See if I lie here perfectly still I am JUST FINE

Get up and go to the Bathroom...... SOB damnation......

Call the doctor's office, explain what is going on. Call returned, records being pulled, review of history,

Yes I have been taking my rat poisen
No, this has not happened before
Resting heart rate 63
No pain,
No swollen legs or tender places on lower extremity.

Trip to the hospital for another VQ scan. A repeat of what they did the first time. No CT because there is nothing to compare it with.

Back to the Doctor. EKG, Blow into some weird machine. O2 Sat rate is good. Might be your heart. Off the hospital again for an Echocardiagram.......

No answers.

SOB gradually diapates.

So now what?

Well I went to the Democratic Caucus.
Went to work.
Walked the dogs down 4 blocks and around a big block and back.
Walked up the stairs to Holy Names. Feeling really good.....

What do I think of all this. Well I have decided that there is a clot somewhere that might throw out bits and pieces of itself sort of like Iceburgs and I am going to suffer from SOB

I can live with that..... It is just going to slow me down a bit, for awhile.

With snow, I don't Go

Not even out of the house. It seems to be a scary place out there. Ice hides under the snow and I am not the steadest on my feet yet. Better yes, ready to test my ice skating talents. No.

Oh, well again an inch of snow brings us to a halt. Not a new story for Seattle.