On the dark side – a second time!

Hello fellow hippies!

The buggers nicked my knickers again!  And this time they were very fashionable fishnet style rather than the old paper granny knickers of late!  I also had dayglo yellow slippers to add to the effect – they were gone too, when I had come round!  But I had written “Oi” just under my knickers so when they ripped ’em off they would know that I was on to them! Lol!

I wasn’t so quick to update you all as my laptop decided, just before I went to theatre, to pack up, so I have had to wait till my daughter was around so I could use hers!

All went well and Mr Witt was very happy with the whole procedure.  I didn’t loose very much blood, which was good, and tucked into tomato soup, followed by cheese burger and chips, with salad, followed by chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream within two hours of coming round!  Slept well, although woke very early and have spent the day dozing in and out.  Walked down the corridor twice, and have a hydro session booked for tomorrow afternoon.  The physio will come in the morning and we will ‘do’ stairs.

I did find that now having to use my left leg as a support that I am slightly less coordinated – presume that’s down to being right handed, and my right leg being the ‘leader’ normally.  So with my track record of falling over etc, I shall be extra vigilant this time!

My scar is good – shall up load picture soon, and doesn’t seem to be as inflamed as my left, and I also don’t have nearly as much numbness this time, which is nice.

Anyway, will let you know how the stairs and hydro go tomorrow.

xx

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We did it!

Yay!!!!

Yesterday, my husband (Phil) and I walked The Great South Run!!!  We did it in 2:23:51 which was well inside our target time of 2:30.  I was sooooooo chuffed.  And what was nice was that at the end we didn’t feel “Oh God, couldn’t have walked another step” which is great, in preparation for my walking the London Marathon in 6 months time!  It is doable!!! Yay!

The sun shone which was just wonderful (first time in a number of years on that race! Lol!  The last two that I have run it has peeeeed down!).  It was a tad windy over the last two miles as it goes along the coastal road of Southsea, and generally you are always going into the wind on that stretch.  We jogged the first 800 meters just to get out of peoples way, and then we jogged the last 800 meters.  AND THE HIP FELT FINE!!!!!!!!

My rectus femoris feels a little tight this morning but I have told it that that is fine – it is allowed to!  But apart from that NO PAIN!

It was just sooooooo brilliant to be a part of it all again – the atmosphere was wonderful.  I carried a balloon with ’47 Today’ written on it and on my back I had a ‘blurb’ as to why I was walking.  I got so many wishes of Happy Birthday and “Good on you” etc. it was wonderful.  So encouraging!  I was grinning from ear to ear.  I have never shared my birthday with 21,000 but it was a great way to do it!

Can’t wait for next year when I intend to run it!

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One week to go before RPAO!

Well, it’s been a few weeks since I last posted, but lots has been going on.  Mainly colds, coughs etc., but also my hubby and I have been ‘training’ for our 10 mile walk this Sunday – 25th October, 2009!  And it has gone really well, I am pleased to say.  Yesterday, we did 8 miles and completed it in 1:58:25, so we are well in on our target time for the 10 miles of 2:30.  It has been really fun having him by my side, and partaking in something that he normally would not do.  I think, secretly, he is actually starting to enjoy it, and is starting to see the benefits of getting fitter!

It is going to be a fun weekend, as on Thursday we will have my sister and her husband over for an early birthday/operation celebration meal.  (I turn 47 on Sunday, so it is rather fitting that Phil and I will be doing the walk together).

On Saturday it will also be a very special anniversary for Phil and myself, as we will have been together for 25 years on that day.  We will not be re-enacting what we got up to that evening – nothing rude, might I add – we went out for a meal, then drove down from London to Brighton to sit on the beach and drink a bottle of champagne!  The joke being that on leaving the restaurant he produced a bottle of champagne, and asked where I wanted to drink it.  We, at that moment, drove past a road sign directing to Brighton.  “Oh, I’ve never been to Brighton” I pipe up – so off we went on an hours drive.  As we drove down the steep hill into Brighton, I say “Oh – Yes I have, I remember now!!”  He wasn’t terribly impressed, but we sat on the beach (in the car) and drank this bottle of champagne, with a Police Car parked just opposite us!  Then drove back up to London and had breakfast in Smithfield Market!  Then went straight into work (well, obviously my mind wasn’t on work at all that day!) It was brilliant – that evening I dumped my current boyfriend (we were on the verge of splitting anyway, as I had fallen for Phil sometime before!) – and the rest is history!

Anyway, we will have a quiet night in, in preparation for our ‘walk’ the following morning.  I think it will be quite emotional crossing the finishing line and getting our medals.  I have worked hard to get to where I am now – 5 months post LPAO  – and I now know what work is involved if I want to do the marathon next April 25th, but I will give it a bloody good go!  I am so very grateful for the support Phil has shown in his encouragement to getting me to the start line of this race and I know that he will do the same for the London Marathon.  I will update our results on Sunday!

My best wishes to one and all who reads this- to those who have just undergone the op, you will get there, stay positive and have goals, and also to those about to get theirs done, first or second – see you on the other side! Lol!

Lots of love xxx

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