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My 2 new hips at age 61- check with your Surgeon before doing any of these exercisesArchive for joy
Happiness is……..
Being told by the Colonel that the ossification is actually shrinking and you are his poster child…. lol… 🙂 …………..
Having your CF coach so trilled at the news that he gives you a 400M walk with medicine ball and comes to meet you to whip you into a fast walk for the last uphill bit and then gives you a killer WOD ……. 🙂
Being so relieved and happy that all the hard work to beat this shit is actually paying off….. 🙂
PRICELESS !!!!!!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
The infection is still doing the yo-yo bit. It went up a touch but will go down again (it has been doing this for a year now). Amazing to think that last year at this time I was in a lot of pain and not feeling very well during and after our trip to Paris. And no wonder because on the 20th of December I was under the knife for a revision due to infection, when the Colonel found out that I had actually been walking around Paris with a detached muscle (no wonder Chris had to haul me up the Metro steps)… and I still loved being in Paris pain and all …what can I say…I am an idiot 🙂 I love Paris…oh why oh why do I love Paris…because?????how does that song go again??? not because of the pain I am sure….
So what am I going to do now? Being me… I need a new challenge..Right… how does loosing 60 lbs in 62 weeks sound? If last night’s WOD is something to go by…it’s in the bag. Of course there is a reason for this…since we are going back yo Thailand in 2013, I have decided to see if I can save up enough $$ to have an abdominal plasty…maybe a boob lift? since they are going south (gravity you know)…However who knows what will happen now that we are intensifying the CF work out…
Miracles do happen…I just proved it didn’t I…and after all it is almost Christmas and I do believe in Santa 🙂
A great big ” THANK YOU ” is in order……
The only reason I am here is because of the Colonel’s fantastic work , his allowing me to go and do Crossfit (with modifications 🙂 ) and putting up with me going crazy and trying to push the limit..I am quite certain he must have been ready to strangle me a few times. Wendy his receptionist..tastetester par Excellence of my baking, with great feed back. To have Mike, Amy and Greg at Crossfit work around my limitations and kick my butt…without injuring my hips. I am very thankful for their ability to curb my enthusiasm of wanting to try everything…with a big resounding ” NO” and making it stick. 🙂 I do know that I am not easy…LOL.. and that if I am told that can’t do something I will try it..or at least attempt it…My Family Doctor for keeping me reined in as well…see an awful lot of people seem to be doing that, I wonder why???…My Massage therapist Deborah with truly magic touch…my friend Leanne who keeps trying to make me pretty and I cancel out on her..Tyler my wordsmith keep writing I want the next instalment please…And last but not least Chris…the love of my life, my best friend and the poor bugger who puts up with me..carts everything around for me..including my carcass when I get too tired and bit of more than i can chew ( that happens a lot by the way so he is kept quite busy 🙂 .If any person that had this surgery done thinks that they can do this without getting in shape…please think again..
Saint John to Toronto…2 hours…Thursday 10th
Toronto layover… 5 hours
Toronto to Tokyo…14 hours…Friday 11th crossed the dateline
Tokyo layover…3 hours
Tokyo Bangkok…6 hours…Friday 11th
Bangkok layover… 8 hours (walking around airport,,,sitting etc.) Saturday 12th
Bangkok to Phuket..1 1/2 hours Saturday 12th
Hitting the beach that same day of arrival Saturday 12th at 09:00 and finally getting some sleep at 20:00 after wandering around Karon and getting our bearings. Walking 4 flights of stairs each time to get to our room. I never realized how difficult curved stairs going from narrow to wide angle could be to maneuver ..weird I never knew that the hips could be affected by that…painful and difficult..have to be careful with each step..could also be the steepness…not sure.
The next day Sunday 13 th walking 10 Km on the beach to go to Kata Beach…All day on the beach and then walking back to Karon.
Today is an R&R day of sitting at the pool and tonight a 5-6 Km walk to go to the headland off Karon beach (by the way it is hilly country)
Yes thank you all because without Crossfit there is no bloody way I would have been able to do this. And this at this moment with all the exercise I have done is still very hard , painful and tiring 🙂
THANK YOU ALL… from the bottom of my heart 🙂
Got my MOJO back…it’s about time
Whew….that was quite a haul…I am starting to feel better. FINALLY …Taking vitamin D, getting some energy..still having some issues with sucking oxygen during the WOD…but starting to chirp mentally again..lol… When I get depressed I get depressed…I hate being sick..and with not getting much natural Vitamin D this summer..the lack of sun really made me dig that hole deeper.
I have stopped being a baby and pandering to the ouch, ouch of my right leg and am doing normal (for me) WOD’s again…feel much better about that..the not whimping out bit. The Colonel put them in pretty good and I won’t break them for sure…what is a bit of pain in the scheme of things. I have lived with worse.
Going to Thailand next week and really looking forward to lying on the beach, riding Elephants..trekking through the jungle…getting into trouble….mmm did I say that??? I will try …try being the operative word….to be good.
Anyway it is 02:45…time to try to go back to sleep…9 more sleeps…
Skimming like a bird…sorry…. Dragon across the water
This was unbelievable fun…..I really have no words….I could just cry from joy (in fact I did…don’t tell ..kills my image 😉 ). If there was water on my face it was from splashing.
To be able to do stuff like this again. It is hard to wrap my mind around it. The guys helped me in and out of the Dragon Boat….we entered and exited from the dock. We paddled the course a few times…I had Chris next to me and Tushard (Trauma Doctor) behind me…in case anything went wrong…they could just heave me off the boat…I float really good …even with the hips 🙂 The only time I had an issue was walking on the floating dock? I always had good balance being on moving objects…boats, planes etc. , this is odd I will need to go and practice on the neighbour’s dock and figure out what is happening.
Never thought that I would feel the competitive juices flowing again…gosh I love that feeling….edgy…I want to get a skull for 2 now. We live right on the Saint John River and we could build a frame to put the skull in so that I could lift myself in and out of it…like a u shaped dock with a pull up bar…That would be a blast to go skimming over the water in the summer.
I really need something to make up for not being able to skydive,bungee jump, etc. the list goes on..This could be it.
Saturday is Dragon Boat race day….can’t wait….will post some pictures 😉
Sunny Saturday at the UNBSJ Track
What a wonderful day…we have not had much sun here this summer and it felt so nice…light breeze .
We met at the track Mike, Nick, Greg, Jeff, Alexis, Doris Chris and me. Two teams of 3. Chris has an injured toe so it is difficult to run and he was told by the doctor at Emerg to give it a rest and I am not allowed to run (which of course I have been whining about ) and yes Colonel you are right again…IT HURTS TO RUN!!!! 😦
I just got happy…lost my mind and ran…(like a colt in a field..NOT…more like a Flemish Horse )…mmmm tried to run is more like it. I did about 10 yards…it is the motion I think of trying to stretch the leg out and push off…could not do it….tried itty bitty steps…that did not work either…then I realized what I was doing and stopped…I am such an idiot!!!! I get so happy I just start dancing around and forget where I am…must be the anaesthetics 🙂
Anyhow…it was a great day and a lot of fun..Cheering,taking photo’s and movies of the CF’s during their WOD
Addiction….
I have come to the conclusion that I am addicted. How do I know that? Well let me put it this way…bloody fool is chomping at the bit to work out while having a spot of trouble with Montezuma. I did the WOD today and almost lost my lunch and felt decidedly wobbly. I can just hear the explanation to the Doctors, “Well I was working out when I passed out and fell and wrecked the left hip…then I came to and had cramps …wrecked the right one trying to get up to run to the washroom , yes and I dislocated my shoulder at the same time as well”….Hokay , the Colonel will lock me up after that one and my MD will tie me to the bed for sure. He almost took off from his chair when I said that we had entered the Dragon boat race at Crossfit…”NO…YOU ARE NOT ROWING ” sounded just the same as the Crossfit people when I put that idea forward. I am beginning to feel that way too many people have my number.
I sure feel like doing a Sally Field at the Oscars…you know that soppy tearfull…you love me…you really, really love me…
THANK YOU GUYS
Showdown at the CrossFit corral
Kevin “Karate Kid” and MP “The Hipster” partnered up to kick ass on Friday’s team event….and guess what ….we tied for 6th with the time of 13:30 and 378 points. That is so cool.
I even surprised myself with holding a plank position for 67 seconds (modified for the leg flutter….I seem to be having some movement issue with the right joint) .
The pole is my friend
Poor Kevin had a bad cold and he ran the 200 M, while I was modified to row 200 M since not allowed to run (on pain of dismemberment…LOL )
The pics and video are not pretty and it is PG since there is obscene language. I truly can’t remember much all I could think of was that I had to finish it.
I do know that when Chris told me to stop,,,the water running down my face was not just sweat…we will just leave it at that.
I am taking you home BFF
How can a girl get so lucky……
I feel like it’s Christmas every day. I just can’t believe I am so lucky. I have my husband Chris…friend ,lover, cook (yummy and really good…he is a keeper) without him I could not have come this far. We have been together now 31 years and it feels like yesterday. I think that the trick is that we make each other laugh and we do things together and have fun. Everyday is an adventure. Each morning the world is fresh and bright and you see with new eyes. We both work out at Crossfit and he supports me in everything I try. Well not everything (some stuff could hurt me) but you know what I mean. The owners of Crossfit Saint John who are going out of their way to make sure that what I do is as safe for me as can be…I get the resounding ” NO ” and get reined in pretty darn quick.
My family doctor, visiting me in the hospital every day, caring about what happens to me. Racing around the ward with one of the nurses to see who was the fastest with a walker…I got her in the corners…darnit if she didn’t overtake me in the straight away. Little things…a smile , a kind word, a joke. The Colonel , my surgeon, an artist (bone instead of marble)..caring..and he can take my jokes and is a willing test subject for my baking experiments. His aide the camp, whose eyes smile and is so kind and funny and part of the baking testers as well (I have not poisoned them yet). My friend J-G who came to visit all the time even though he was on crutches and it was painful to walk all that way ( we both drive the same surgeon crazy).
I am surrounded by such nice people, all the work mates and managers , they supported me and still do, they constantly encourage me. My neighbours who are the nicest people you could meet, helpful and humerous…I could go on and on…I sure ran out of fingers and toes trying to list everyone .
I am humbled and so thankful to have these people in my life…It sure makes it fun…
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for making my life so full of joy…
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