This has been a rather momentous week of New Hip Progress!
Mid-week, running buddy Connie took me and Taz to one of our favorite running venues (Davidson Mesa) where we met up with Randall and Dan. Connie and Randall planned to run the circumference of the Mesa (3 miles) while Dan and I were going to walk my permitted 1-mile which would at least get us out to the fabulous view of the Continental Divide. Dan is a long-time workmate and friend with a bottomless supply of patience. This came in very handy today. It turned out we all returned to the starting point at the same time, with our 1-mile taking the same amount of time as Connie and Randall's 3-mile. We now know just how sloooowwwww Dan can go!
Other Big Progress tidbits: I moved back to our upstairs bedroom! I had set my own criteria for when I would do this: no longer needing the walker if I had to get up to go to the bathroom during the night (too noisy and might wake Kendall up), no longer waking up multiple times during the night to adjust my positioning, and sleeping at least until 4 a.m.. I finally checked off all of these so it was back to the upstairs bedroom, the comfy bed, my handy dandy bedside radio, light, and stack of books, and my softly snoring husband! Accompanying that tidbit, I resumed showering in the upstairs bathroom - which means stepping into the tub...a Very Big Deal! But I do love that upstairs shower and, if I could dance, I would most certainly be doing a happy dance!
Kendall and his cousins on his mom's side were having a gathering to share stories and documents about the Breyfogle and Andrew families (Breyfogle being his maternal grandmother's side of the family and Andrew being his maternal grandfather's side of the family). Family tales and laughter abounded!
To top it all off, Paul and Barley came to visit on Saturday evening into Sunday. The pups got to visit me in that wonderful upstairs bedroom early Sunday morning.
And then, more progress! Paul and I went to church - and I didn't just "go" to church - I walked both to and from church - a mile each way! Bonus: going to the church, I had an owl sighting and coming home from church I had a duckling sighting!
This Week Four New Hip episode is going to go down as a winner!
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