Ireland day 0526. Wednesday 08 March 2023- UKHip08 *

Ireland day 0526. Wednesday 08 March 2023- UKHip08

Today’s summary	Snowed on and off all day but still managed to get up to the shops and back on my crutches. Val doing a fabulous job of looking after me!
Today’s weather	Snowing all day (settling on the grass but not on the roads or pavements). Light easterly wind. Appx 2C

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of our route)		Close-up location (The green line shows where we walked) (Click button below to download GPX of today’s walk as recorded, or see interactive map at bottom with elevations corrected): First walk to the shops since the operation

Commentary

(Summary blog only. Last full blog was Day 0368).

Continuing the recovery today, aided enormously by Val’s fabulous nursing and food preparation.

It snowed almost all day today but nevertheless I managed to complete my longest walk since my operation a week ago. OK it was only as far as the shops but it felt like a major achievement.

The X-rays below show what my Birmingham Hip Resurfacing implants actually look like. I’m exceptionally fortunate to live at a time when these things are possible. A century ago, I’d have been contemplating spending the rest of my life immobile and in pain. I hope medical progress can continue at the same pace in the future, so that in a hundred years time the chronic ailments which plague us today can have been banished to the bin of history.

Just putting my feet up now after the day’s exertions, then time to get on with some Spanish practice!

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


The trusty Yaris in its winter plumage





Now you see it, now you don’t. The saga of the vanishing hips. This is what my Birmingham Hip Resurfacing implants look like. The one in my right hip (on the left of the X-ray) is 50mm, the one one the right is 52mm