Hip Hip Hooray

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!

Small steps to start with