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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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  • mic71403
    mic71403 DawnDedee

    Posted

    Hi again Dawn ...

    In a deep blue or green dress I imagine - and with matching toe nails looking gorgeous!

    Mic

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    • DawnDedee
      DawnDedee mic71403

      Posted

      Hi Mic, thanks! Well when I mow I wear my ugliest clothing, hate to alter your vision, but your ideas of colors for a dress have just inspired me to go shopping...

      💛 Dawn

  • ginger47520
    ginger47520 DawnDedee

    Posted

    Way to go.Your have a lot of courage.I always look up to you.smile
    • DawnDedee
      DawnDedee ginger47520

      Posted

      Thank you Ginger, how sweet! I will carry your compliment with me and appreciate feeling lifted up by it.

      💛 Dawn

  • elaine02151
    elaine02151 DawnDedee

    Posted

    What strength from a Tennessee girl!  I am so glad you might have found the help you were looking for.  As you are out mowing... Watch the heat and don't fall.  NO SET BACKS!

    I am getting an MRI at 9:15pm Friday,  They will look at it and compare and see what they see.  My right side is still weak and the groin pains are still there.  I am going to try to go to a well known Neurologist in our area.  I just keep praying and move forward and Know the He has a plan.

    • DawnDedee
      DawnDedee elaine02151

      Posted

      Thank you Elaine! I agree NO SET BACKS! I pray this new neurologist is able to help you.

      💛 Dawn

  • annedi
    annedi DawnDedee

    Posted

    I've been wondering when to do my lawn. I've had a friend do it so far. I'm week 8 and was hoping that I might manage next week. I haven't got self propelled though. I haven't hoovered either! Glad you didn't suffer any pain.

    I don't know about getting back to the old me - I do know though that the new me is walking a lot more than the old me has done for a couple of years!!

    • DawnDedee
      DawnDedee annedi

      Posted

      Hi annedi, thanks for sharing! If you have to push the mower on your own power then hopefully your lawn is flat. I am four months out, but have only been walking for the latter two so we are kind of on the same time line.

      My yard has some dips, a ditch, and a small slope, and I had to push hard a few times even though I have self propelled, and admit that I became nauseated from that movement. Something about pushing at an angle. But when I pulled my mower backwards, I did my hip exercises, the walking sideways one.

      So do be careful if the terrain is not level, but hope it goes well for you!

      💛 Dawn

    • annedi
      annedi DawnDedee

      Posted

      Well have just done the lawn edges with upright shears and mowed the lawn and apart from a bit of uncomfortableness in the buttock and back thigh presumably from the use of muscles pushing the mower it was fine. That has also gone a bit later in the day - so great!!
    • mic71403
      mic71403 annedi

      Posted

      Hi Annedi

      Very well done - a little more of life returns day by day!

      don't you love the smell of grass as it is beingcut, fresh, lovely and reborn, just like us hippies!

      Mic

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    • annedi
      annedi mic71403

      Posted

      Certainly do. Each day I do something new after the op I think fab. The lawn was much more rewarding than doing any hoovering - something I have yet to tackle! The muscles are beginning to ache a bit now  - must be a delayed reaction but the hip itself is fine. Yesterday I was up some stepladders pruning and I thought that was wonderful. Before the op I was getting so dispirited thinking that I wouldn't be able to do the things I enjoyed so as you say it is a new life!
  • susan57233
    susan57233 DawnDedee

    Posted

    Awesome Dawn, getting back to the life we lost is such a wonderful feeling, Every achievement is a job well done.
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