At about 3 months post-left hip replacement it was time for a long weekend away. This was a yearly weekend away that I always look forward too! There is usually about 20 of us that either stay in a cottage or camp outside. This time around I was awarded a bed in the cottage... yeah [...]
I figured something out a while ago, but hadn't spoken about it yet as I wasn't sure how to communicate it or explain it properly. I've found a weak position for my right hip joint. There is a body position, better yet an angle, that I can put my leg and body into that can [...]
Over the last year I have traveled a lot. Out to Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick by car, down to Florida to visit family, all the way to Jamaica for a friends wedding and even out to California (twice). Most of which was all done within the first year of my second hip replacement. [...]
An update from my last post: Yesterday I went to see my Family Doctor to talk about some testing I'm interested in having done. Like I spoke about last week in my post I always wanted to get some kind of metal toxicity testing done to make sure I didn't have any odd levels of [...]
How can I not address this documentary, it's everywhere right now from hip forums to Instagram. It isn't something that I can ignore and not touch base on. If you didn't know what I'm talking about Netflix recently released a documentary about medical devices and I watched it. It's called 'The Bleeding Edge' is explained [...]
First of all, sorry that I have been away from the blog for a little while. Things had gotten crazy busy and once it all slowed down a little I wanted to take sometime for my friends, family and myself. So much has happened over the last 2 years that I had not really allowed [...]
At the end of February I received a message from a girlfriend (the one I do adventure races with) who was attending a corporate retreat up north. She sent me a bunch of text messages asking if I had ever heard of Robyn Benincasa. Robyn is an ex-extreme adventure racer, has had several hip replacements [...]
Yesterday I had a frustrating moment. While recovery is going great and I couldn’t be happier with being pain free, change can come in unexpected and surprising ways. There are lots of aspects of recovery that we don’t think about when we get started. And even if we happen to think about it we don’t [...]
Week 11 was my first physiotherapy session back with my athletic therapist, Chris, after being released from OHIP weeks earlier. I was looking forward to this but also knew it was going to hurt. Our focus was on the scar. We hadn't got to any scar work yet on my new incision and I really [...]
Spending time in the rain since hip replacements has been a completely different experience, and something I’m truly learning to enjoy and appreciate. Now I understand that even for people without arthritis spending time in the rain isn’t necessarily enjoyable but once you add arthritis into the equation it’s a whole other story. Another men’s [...]