Well, it has been a while, but just thought it was about time for a little update.
Last time I wrote, I had just started rehab for my fractured Ischium, and continuing rehab for both PAO’s. Well, time is a healer, as the saying goes. I started running on the treadmill at the beginning of January, walking two minutes, running two minutes for a total of 10 minutes. Well now, I am up to running for 2 mins, 3, mins, 4, mins, 5 mins, and 6 mins, interspersed with 2 minutes of walking. Once I get to my peak running time, I then go back down the pyramid. This morning I did a total of 29 minutes of running (missed off the last 3 mins and 2 mins as I was running out of time (‘scuse the pun!)) and it feels great – normal, not wonky, not like I have cement instead of hips, totally normal. I just need to get the cardio up as I am using a lot of puff, but I am getting there.
I still get pain in where the fracture was on my left hip, when sitting in the car driving for long distances, and I still get popping and twanging from both hips when doing this and that, but apart from that I feel normal. I am just over a year post-op on my right hip, and 20 months post op from my left (7 months post fracture) and I can honestly say that most of the time I now don’t think about my hips. I hope that I have managed to avoid having a bone graft and plate where my non-union is and that this is now the way life is going to be, getting better and better!
In my post of March 9th, 2009, I made this comment about my pending hip surgery, “ Bit like the A3 tunnel that is being constructed pretty much on our doorstep – a long process to getting it started, desparately in need of being done, and hopefully when completed will solve alot of problems. It is supposed to be completed 2011 in time for the Olympics in 2012 - I am planning on being way ahead of it on that score!” When I wrote that, 2011 seemed a long way off. Well, the tunnel is due to be opened this May/June, exactly two years since my LPAO, and three years since I last ran officially. And, rather ironically, there is a run being organised through it prior to its opening, which I SHALL be taking part in. It will be my first official RUN! I have not been ‘way ahead of it’ as I had hoped I would be, but I am keeping up with it, and it’s opening will herald a new chapter for those that have used the A3 and fallen foul to the traffic jams which constantly blighted it, and hopefully I, too, shall be opening up a new chapter of my life and will moving on from the hip problems that have blighted my life recently!
