New Hip: Look, Mom, no hands!
posted 11 months ago, updated 5 minutes later and has 2 comments
Last week, for the first time in over a year, I started walking without any aid. No crutches, no cane, no hiking poles.
It had been 10 weeks since I had my right hip replaced, and things couldn't have been going better. After three PT sessions, I...
It had been 10 weeks since I had my right hip replaced, and things couldn't have been going better. After three PT sessions, I...
Meeting long-long-lost relatives
posted 12 months ago, updated 16 minutes later and has 1 comment
I just got back from an unusual family reunion. Over half of the people in the room were blood relatives, and many of them shared my last name and good genes. But my father, grandfather and great-grandfather never knew any of them. These were dist...
New Hip: I'll miss my crutches
posted about 1 year ago, updated about 14 hours later and has 3 comments
Since having a total hip replacement seven weeks ago, I've been getting around on a pair of crutches. But I never complained about it.
"What's not to like about it?" I'd say to sympathizers. "Pretty women hold doors for me and old people offer me...
"What's not to like about it?" I'd say to sympathizers. "Pretty women hold doors for me and old people offer me...
Life: My five-year check-in with Ellen
posted about 1 year ago and has 1 comment
Every five years or so, I run into my high school classmate Ellen. We live about three miles apart, in neighboring communities -- not unusual, except for the fact that we are 150 miles away from our hometown. We just happened to have landed in the...
New Hip: What I think I did right
posted about 1 year ago, updated about 1 month later and has 0 comments
Nurses and physical therapists say I am weeks ahead of most THR (total hip replacement) patients they see, but, in fairness, I realize that most people who have this surgery are not 54 years old, but rather in their 70s and 80s and many pounds ove...
New Hip: Finally here
posted about 1 year ago, updated 6 minutes later and has 1 comment
My right hip was replaced two weeks ago, and I've already logged about 6 miles on it.
In the past week, I've been walking (with crutches) about a mile a day, usually in two separate walks, and have been able to do every daily task except put on ...
In the past week, I've been walking (with crutches) about a mile a day, usually in two separate walks, and have been able to do every daily task except put on ...
New Hip: Coming in five days
posted about 1 year ago, updated 2 minutes later and has 2 comments
Just five days to go before my hip replacement surgery. I've been off all painkillers for over a week now, and with the exception of one day, it hasn't been too bad.
The worst day was Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, after I over-did it pi...
The worst day was Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, after I over-did it pi...
New Hip: I'll be like Steve Austin
posted about 1 year ago, updated 11 days later and has 3 comments
In two weeks I will join Col. Steve Austin and become a bionic man.
While Austin, TV’s “Six Million Dollar Man,” had two cybernetic legs and a right arm, I’m starting off small. Just my right hip will be replaced for now.
The surgery should take...
While Austin, TV’s “Six Million Dollar Man,” had two cybernetic legs and a right arm, I’m starting off small. Just my right hip will be replaced for now.
The surgery should take...
Missing the Rapture
posted about 1 year ago, updated about 22 hours later and has 3 comments
Had an eerie experience at work this morning.
At 11:30 a.m. I realized that I was the only person in my office. Nine empty desks. I walked over to the next office area and found only one person out of seven. A third office and only one of five. ...
At 11:30 a.m. I realized that I was the only person in my office. Nine empty desks. I walked over to the next office area and found only one person out of seven. A third office and only one of five. ...
The UnKiss
posted about 1 year ago, updated 15 minutes later and has 10 comments
The most memorable kiss of my life never left my lips.
Here is my sad story:
For a year after my last semester in college, I had been trying to woo the cutest, smartest 'n' sassiest woman I had ever met, and I was running dangerously low on hope...
Here is my sad story:
For a year after my last semester in college, I had been trying to woo the cutest, smartest 'n' sassiest woman I had ever met, and I was running dangerously low on hope...
