Hey Gemme, great write-up
I haven't been posting for the last couple of weeks because I'm paying the price for doing the wrong thing. I had a situation where my yard dude didn't show for a month. November. In leaf country. I was feeling great because I've been getting some spine goodies done and it's been forever since I've been able to do that sort of thing so I went for it and raked/bagged leaves,
lots of them. I knew I had been told no lifting or housework for a week and it had only been three days BUT, I was super careful and set up some clever ways of doing things so that I wouldn't be lifting much weight but that meant a lot more bending and twisting. I told myself that the first sign of discomfort and I wold stop and would have, but it never hurt. I even stopped and saved some for later. Spectacularly bad idea on my part. The next couple of days were...Hmm, interesting.
So, the hip that has been threatening to do something ugly for the last year and a half did. All my fault, but I have been relegated to walks along a trail (with a cane, temporarily) and waiting for tomorrow and my appointment with a hip guy. Not all bad, the river area is hitting eagle watching season and I've been enjoying it and learning a lot. I've even got a birdwatching mentor now, I just found out his name is Tom but I've been thinking of him as "Eagle Eye" so I'll stick with that here.
It's sort of amazing to me that two body parts made of pretty much the same things, producing symptoms that can be attributed to either somehow require an entirely separate system of specialists, clinics, images, etc; because they are two inches away from each other.
As soon as I get a consult I'll see what is prudent to do gym-wise and promise to actually obey Drs orders.
Anywho, even though it's raining, I plan on suiting up in a couple of hours and going down to see what mother nature has in store for me
