It's been a very long time since my last post! The pace of my walking decreased (as it had done on the Camino), despite my best efforts to keep fit, and by Christmas I began to look forward to my new bionic hip. It seemed a good way to face surgery, rather than in dread.
Today I went back to the physio department at the hospital, just 5 weeks post op. The kindly physio was very impressed at my level of progress, and proclaimed his services almost redundant, though he did add a few refinements to the exercises that I have been resolutely doing each day. Thanks to the encouragement and advice of previous hip recipients, completing my homework has certainly proved beneficial, and in a week's time I hope to be crutch-free. Pain- and drug-free for two weeks now, it's like I've been granted a new lease of life, and serious walking beckons again - but softly softly at first!
Frank and I will go to Vigo at the start of April (that's where
Tango has spent the winter). A variant of the Camino Portugues happens to pass through this Galician city, so naturally we will want to test out the new hip along the path. Watch this space!
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