With my knee feeling better, I’ve been more active and saying “YES” more often. I have been saying “YES” to going to meetings, attending in-person events, going out for dinners, helping with my grandchildren, and going on family vacations. But suddenly, I felt exhausted and overwhelmed… I thought settling back into life would make me …
Do you find yourself with a list of “to-do’s”, but are overwhelmed because you don’t have the energy to do it all? You’re not alone! We have all been there at some point. After I had knee replacement surgery, I found that my energy was so low for months that I stopped participating in a majority …
There’s an expression that says “Come to your senses.” But what if your senses are not working? What can you do if you have lost your senses? I had cataract surgery on my left eye a couple of weeks ago. Although I have pretty good vision in my left eye now, I’m extremely disoriented because …
“Why, oh why, would you have gone through a knee replacement?” Before knee replacement surgery, my right knee would grind when I walked. As the years went on, the grinding became more painful and the distance that I could walk was shortening. So short that if I walked to the corner of my street, just …
Relearning to walk post-knee replacement surgery was very humbling. One of the biggest lessons was, even if I thought I was not making progress, I had to keep going. I kept going for physiotherapy, I kept doing the prescribed exercises.I kept enduring the extreme pain under my kneecap. I kept surviving. I kept improving. Until…I could finally walk …
I am writing this nearly 5 months post knee replacement surgery of my right knee. I have come a long way from initially not feeling my right foot, which was quite surprising. My brain was disconnected from my body. I had to relearn how to walk. It all felt very scary. For most of those …
How far should you push yourself? I am nearly 5 months post-knee surgery. The pain level in my kneecap is down from a 10 to a 2. I can walk more comfortably and I am stable on my leg. The ankle of my surgery leg was experiencing more pain as I tried to walk downstairs. …
After 4 months of struggling, I went for one session with Dave Freiday from Strategic Muscle Systems, and just like that I am walking! Although I still have some mild pain under my knee cap, behind the knee, and some inflammation there has been SO MUCH progress recently. My progress was slow and painful, and painfully …
“Out with the old, in with the new ” seems to be a popular New Year’s quote (no author assigned). I think that I was magically hoping that my pain would disappear along with 2022. In fact, I did a little dance right after midnight at the start of 2023, I was trying to begin …
One of the most challenging parts of knee replacement surgery was relearning to walk. After knee replacement surgery, the doctors want you up and walking as soon as possible. So I thought it couldn’t be too bad if the doctors want you moving so quickly – It was only knee replacement surgery! But when the …
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