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I MOWED MY LAWN...

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DawnDedee
DawnDedee

Hi!  Today I am four months out of my revision THR and not only have I painted my toe nails with a gorgeous color, but I have also mowed my lawn.  I have a self propelled push mower and I can control the speed and I go very slowly!  I wear sturdy boots also for balance.  Several times I felt as though I would collapse as I am still anemic and am experiencing some heart sinus arithmia so my heart rate goes off the chart.  So I took it slowly.

Perhaps this hard of work is too soon?  But I sure slept well that night from the exercise and that old familiar sense of accomplishment I used to know before all the hip problems and surgeries. I did not suffer any pain either.

Sometimes I cry in mourning over the me that has become lost or changed to some degree and in some ways permanently changed forever. Howecver, I have to try to get back to the "some of" me I once knew!   

Dawn, USA.  

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  • jackie56101
    jackie56101 DawnDedee

    Posted

    Hi Dawn, Good for you great news something very positive keep up the good work

    smile

    Jackie USA

  • renee01952
    renee01952 DawnDedee

    Posted

    Hi dear Dawn .... wow girl, that is so great ... especially to have gorgeous colored toe nails again ... mine look interesting ... no color - I was so used to have a mani-/pedicure in Los Angeles ( 2 salons on everey corner !!) - different story here in Holland - Perhaps in the big cities .... 

    But what an accomplishments ... I understand the mourning weep so well ... it is not always easy to accept what is now and make peace with it, is it ... but with practice, it will get better - 

    Note to self: "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"  --- Wayne Dyer

    warm hug and keep in touch

  • Guest
    Guest DawnDedee

    Posted

    well done Dawn what an accom plishment xx
    • DawnDedee
      DawnDedee Guest

      Posted

      Thanks Gill! A long road cannot be walked unless I am willing to take baby steps, right? But I will also LEAP somewhere down my road...

      💛 Dawn

  • juliet_81364
    juliet_81364 DawnDedee

    Posted

    Hi Dawn,

    Good for you! Well done. I understand the 'mourning' - I'm 44 and 5 months post op, but struggle not to feel so much older in my body. Posts like yours are inspiring.  Keep it up!

    Juliet, London 

     

    • DawnDedee
      DawnDedee juliet_81364

      Posted

      Thanks Juliet, glad to be inspiring and thanks for giving me some inspiration! In about a year, if not sooner, you will feel your inner age and body age balance out. How wonderful that will be! Keep on keeping on dear.

      💛 Dawn

  • Guest
    Guest DawnDedee

    Posted

    Wow Dawn! :-)

    Nice going! I think we all experience a certain lack of old self, no shame in mourning that. I know I am not going to be all of me that I was. I don't particularly enjoy that thought, but I do accept it for what it is. But I do have my moments of gloom as well.

    Actions like this though, mowing the lawn, those are the moments worth it, if only because you did something you haven'tt been able to for years.

    As for the painting of nails.. Well, I can *imagine* the pride of that one, can't say I have teh experience :-p

    • DawnDedee
      DawnDedee Guest

      Posted

      Your are too funny am6ft8! Thanks for sharing. I love this site for we all encourage each other so. The horrid details of my hip journey were such that I nearly gave up. Then I discovered this site and cried out for help. We have a wonderful place here don't we?

      💛 Dawn

  • Hailea
    Hailea DawnDedee

    Posted

    WoW well done Dawn.

    You really seem to be doing well which is fantastic.

    • DawnDedee
      DawnDedee Hailea

      Posted

      Thanks Hailea! My road has been long and hard and it feels great to feel this good!

      💛 Dawn

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