Life mostly on my own two feet…

This afternoon I had a physio appointment; but the day didn’t start well. When I woke I was so stiff I could barely move; my arms and knees were painful and I felt rubbish. Crawled out of bed and took a couple of the strong Co-codamol and dozed off. An hour or two later I felt a bit better so got up and showered etc. I spent the morning limping or should I say waddling around. 
I had a physio appointment at 2.15 that my friend was coming to collect me for but I can’t say I was much looking forward to the physio or an afternoon out.
In the late morning I had an email from Health Connections asking if I would like to do a couple of hours shadowing tomorrow afternoon. That perked me up a bit! So my first session with them is tomorrow.
Meanwhile I got ready for this afternoon. Just seeing my friend buoyed me up no end so I was quite cheerful by the time we reached the physio’s. But I did come clean with him right at the start and said I hadn’t been doing my exercises because of my knee and arm pain.
He said no worries let’s just see how you’re progressing. It turns out that a lot of what I’ve been doing to try to ease my knee pain was actually the hip exercises. He reckons my mobility and range of movement is ahead of where he expects for 6 weeks post op. He gave me a sheet of the exercises I was supposed to be doing then crossed one out and said that was the final, most advanced one. When he explained what it entailed I said that was exactly what I had been doing when I couldn’t sleep at night. Basically squats from the side of the bed. If I want to progress further I can use the chair I have which is lower and therefore uses more muscle power.
So no further physio appointment for a month.
Joss and I then went off to Bruce Russel, silversmiths. His premises is set in wonderful gardens with a delightful restaurant. A lovely place to pass the time of day..

Oh and how could I forget the best news ever! If you want to sleep on your side then that’s fine!! Yes!!