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Kate53CornUK
Kate53CornUK

I had a life (once) - it involved two legs working properly and an ability to get through a day without popping pills! I am delighted to have got half a resolve from the oa pain with hip replacement number one. 

Sometimes it is hard to find motivation to get through the day when it feels like your life is in suspended animation,your job has just disappeared up the Swannee and you still can't put a sock on .

As I am a great one for lists, I have put one on the fridge. It gives me bite sized goals to achieve. I wonder what anyone else is striving for?

1.Starting a new business

2. Travelling again

3. Spending time with me chickens

4. Getting out and about in Cornwall again

5. Umm, me chickens!

 

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  • mic71403
    mic71403 Kate53CornUK

    Posted

    Hi Kate

    Greetings from nearby Devon, where cream goes on cream teas first and jam second....

    Glad you've got to a half resolved place in life with hips - my hips were funny, one needed magic 12 years ago and the second 5 magic months ago! Glad lessening of pain for you but obviously yes you need your life back! Where is a nice but gentle place to walk the Cornish Path post op in next few months please?

    Goals being reset  at 5 months:

    !.... walking in cornwall - see above

    2..... crouching, still struggling to get low, tho I can on the strap suspension machine in the gym for some reason!

    3. pain free trip to south africa next year to see aunt and leopard, not leopard eating aunt!

    4. jog for a 10K race ( I did a lap at the gym yesterday on machine)

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    Achieved sox on standing up, carrying two cups of coffee upstairs.

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    Maybe I can drop by and see your chickens when in cornwall shortly, maybe pm me?

    Take care -all will happen soon for you too I hope!

    Mic

    xx

     

    • Kate53CornUK
      Kate53CornUK mic71403

      Posted

      Hah, I'll say it quietly, Mic, but I am reall a Devon girl, I am from Torquay but moved to Cornwall 30 years ago.

      There are plenty of flattish walks everywhere. I guess the most interesting would be around the Helford Passage. There is a wonderful flat (ish) cliff walk between Porteath and Godrevy.

      I love beach walking and there are some fine ones around - Perranporth to Chapel Porth about 3 miles when the tide is out and Gwithian to Hayle Estuary. There are also the dunes there to explore.

      Thanks Mic, nice to see that five months on you are doing so much. I am being patient with my body, doing things gently and keeping moving.

      We are off to Culdrose Air Day tomorrow and am taking my life in my hands with Sean pushing me in a hired wheelchair! We got it as a safty back-up and it has been so useful in getting me out and about. I can just collapse in it when I have had enough.

      My email is ________ if you are in Cornwall

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    • Kate53CornUK
      Kate53CornUK mic71403

      Posted

      Oh poot, I included my email address on that reply and they have eaten it.

      Don't let anyone know but I am from Torquay, I moved here 30 years ago.

      Good places to walk - Porteath to Godrevy coast path. Helford Passage, Roseland Peninsula.

      Glad to see your five months progress, it's encouraging.

      Devon cream is better than Cornish but you will never touch the pasty!

      Will pm you details if you're in Cornwall

  • renee01952
    renee01952 Kate53CornUK

    Posted

    Hi Kate , 

    Love your post and pics ! 

    what kind of new business are you planning to start?  

    My list is short term goals right now :

    being able to pack my stuff and move this Friday, preferrable without damaging new hip and old, worn out hip behaving ..

    then the logistic part of the move ...

    and so much more ...

    scheduling 2nd THR -

    that's it .... 

    gorgeous chicks - 

    You are doing great, by the way .. love your postiveness !

    warm hug

    renee

    to make appointment for second THR 

    • renee01952
      renee01952 Kate53CornUK

      Posted

      Oh ... I love it !!!   beautiful - so much patience required biggrin - 

      Well, you keep him on his toes, Kate .... I wonder what they are looking for in a post that is forbidden - no email address, no links, offensive language and what else ...

       

    • renee01952
      renee01952

      Posted

      understood Alan .... you are doing a great job !!! 
    • Kate53CornUK
      Kate53CornUK renee01952

      Posted

      Sorry, Alan, I didn't realise I was breaking rules, won't happen again x
  • neil5421
    neil5421 Kate53CornUK

    Posted

    Hi great stuff. I have no chickens (apart from the ones that I have counted before they've hatched)

    My target list of milestones is shamefully blokey and sport-oriented but it's what I'm aiming for....

    1. Go to the 4th Ashes Test at Trent Bridge - Friday 7th Aug

    2. Holiday with my wife + 3 other couples in Majorca - 2nd week in Sept

    3. Go on 3 day golf tour in North Norfolk with 5 other blokes - early Oct

    4. Ski in Feb/March

    Here's hoping that all works out!

    • marilyn_92910
      marilyn_92910 neil5421

      Posted

      i live in north norfolk i live in cromer, you are welcome to come and say hello i will let you have the address nearer the time, you can then meet my hubby who has to put up with me lol

       

    • mic71403
      mic71403 marilyn_92910

      Posted

      Hiya Lynn,

      well , enjoy retirement, but be aware everyone will try to rope you in for vol work so choose slowly and carefully which you listen to The Archers!

      Lovely place you live - do you bird watch there?

      mic

      xx

    • marilyn_92910
      marilyn_92910 mic71403

      Posted

      i am not a twitter, cley next sea which is about 15 minute drive away is where all the twitters go and if you want to see seals go to blakeney poin, you can go on boat trips to see the seal colonies, occasionally we see them just off cromer beach 
    • mic71403
      mic71403 marilyn_92910

      Posted

      Hi Lynn...

      Not a twitter or indeed twitcher..They are the mad ones...but love simple bird watching.

      Remember a pub in middle of Cromer on corner...lovely fish n hips!

      Mic

      X

    • Kate53CornUK
      Kate53CornUK neil5421

      Posted

      Great motivations Neil, blokey or not. I am looking forward to travelling again next year, we missed this year for obvious reasons. Hard to believe that this time last year I was swimming off a gulet in Turkey. Majorca will be lovely in Sept.

      I have just booked us 4 nights in Bath at the beginning of Sept. Not super adventurous but at least a break. I am addicted to airbnb and found a boutique flat decorated in Georgian style. looking forward to the baths again and a trip to Longleat!

    • marilyn_92910
      marilyn_92910 mic71403

      Posted

      There is Mary Jane's fish and chips the pubs in Cromer is Wellington which is on a corner, Albion again on corner or the red lion and finally the kings head
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