Three months in.

Hi guys,

Well I'm about three months in now - where on earth did that time go ?

All good with hip apart from the occasional ache but I have recently learnt DO NOT under any circumstances think it's OK to cross your legs !!!!!!!!  Twice now at work I have absentmindedly tried to put my op side leg under my non op side and O.M.G the pain !  I can't even really recall what I did as it was a natural movement but I'm pretty sure I tried to cross.  It was excruciating for a minute and I'm scared to do it again.  At least my body's warning me not to do it - I always thought that I would maybe cross my leg without thinking and it would pop out and I'd be buggered - sat there with my dislocated hip in the middle of a management meeting, unable to move and stuck but oh no - you certainly know about it if it's even slightly done by accident.

In other news my gym membership isn't a total waste, I have been twice now before work but as much as I'm loving it and think it's doing me the world of good I haven't had a week yet where I have been more than twice, despite best intentions and new trainers. (Yes I'm no longer plimsole girl but a fully functioning gym bunny).  When I'm there I love it.  The other morning I had the pool to myself and even the sauna and jacuzzi were empty and I wallowed in the freedom to do my bit with the float without scorn as not allowed to froggy swim.  BUT - some nights I'm still not sleeping so at six a.m. would rather have another hours sleep and some days my hip feels sore and I don't want to aggregate it by walking/cycling.

Sleep is so much better.  I never thought I'd sleep again after op but although it's slow you do get there (she says at 2.15am).  At least my days of getting up at this time are maybe weekly rather than nightly and they don't last anywhere near as long.  Still can't asking the Melissa Dream too.

Works good, I'm enjoying being back and busy.  It's almost like I was never away now but I'm due to travel soon.  In two weeks I have a four hour drive, an overnight stay then a four hour drive back the next day but luckily one of my team can help with the drive if needed, I will make sure I have two stops rather than the usual one wee break.  Then in November I go to France for two nights on my own so I will have to ask for help putting my case in the overhead locker on the plane.  I cannot lift anymore - if I do I pay for it big time.  Like the upstairs Hoover (yes we have one for upstairs and one for down, reason being my mums hand-me-down upstairs Hoover is as heavy as an elephant but great on the carpets and the downstairs Hoover is a little cylinder thing good for wooden floors).  Anyway I asked hubby eleventeen billion times to bring the elephant Hoover down so I could use it on the shaggy rug and when it didn't happen I did it myself.  Big mistake - hip was bad for two days.  Lesson learnt - don't lift stuff.

I'm trying to lose weight for the Christmas party.  The theme of Heroes and Villains inspired me to go as "Titanium Girl" and it's basically leggings (x-Ray of bones) with a vest and cape so not very forgiving when I basically lived on cake and chocolate for my  recouperation.  I have got a cape with Titanium a Girl in diamanté letters and will use silver glitter fabric paint to emphasise my new hip on the leggings.  Also have silver body paint but not sure whether to just do random bits of me rather than full on, a la Terminator.  At least it will be original - I bet there will be at least six Wonder Womans!

So apart from feeling like I have period pain in my hip sometimes and my mishaps with the leg crossing and lifting I'm almost back to normal.  I can't believe how quickly the time has gone.  My scar is even starting to fade at the edge.  They say time is a great healer and when you are a week or four weeks in it doesn't feel like you will ever be the same again but it happens.  

I'm so back to normal that I'm not even really playing AlphaBetty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Right off to eat some cake and try to sleep - some things don't change 😃

Sarah X X X X X X  

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