I can’t believe it’s nearly 19 years since I last had surgery on my hips. I was born with hip-dysplasia and so my total hip replacement gave me a new lease of life.
Hips, Knee and boomps a daisy!
You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting many walks recently. That’s because I’ve been finding it harder to walk any distance. I can walk, say to the swimming pool,
Hip Dip Hooray! 100 lengths for Steps Charity in Hip Health Awareness Month
This morning I switched my walking shoes for my swimming goggles for a single 2.5km swim (100 lengths of the pool). I completed my Hip Dip in 1 hour and 7 minutes!
Diff-ability & Me: when someone else says what’s in my head!
Did you watch Alex Brooker: Disability and Me on BBC iPlayer? I caught it last weekend and I’m so glad that I did. I have rarely watched anything about disability that I could fully identify with.
Winter walks & wobbly hips
So the good news is I’ve now completed 41 miles of my virtual Pennine Way challenge. If I’d been walking the real trail, I’d be in Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire by now.
Lockdown Walking Challenge: little and often on the virtual Pennine Way
I wholeheartedly support the need for another national lockdown until we are all covid-immunised and it’s safe to mingle again. My belief that it’s the right thing to do,
The ‘Wonky Dog’. Yoga and hip dysplasia.
So I got up this morning and decided that I was definitely going to seize up if I didn’t take action to get more exercise during the collective lockdown.