I think a lot of us on here are no longer in the first flush of youth and certainly a few of us have medical conditions that hamper the ability to keep fit and active.
I joined a gym twenty years ago and kept myself active (the younger me would have been very surprised at me doing this) but old age and medical condition has slowed down my take up. I stopped using the gym about a year ago as I felt I was putting too much strain on myself. I can’t do as much as I used to do but I continued to swim and exercise in the pool and recently I’ve started to use the gym in a limited way (one of the trainers I know said that at least I’m doing something. I ‘cycled’ four kilometres today, ‘walked’ a kilometre and a half and did some weights, then swam ten lengths and some pool exercises.
Is there anything you do or recommend to keep active.
Here’s a song that came up on shuffle just before I went in the pool.
Walking. Daily lunchtime walk when working from home.
Will walk into the town (about 3 miles) rather than taking the bus most weekends.
although the benefits may be negated by the beer consumed, and the bus ride home
Really enjoy going to new places and just wandering about the place.
And it’s always a surprise just how many steps can be burned at Galleries, Museums, or Exhibitions.
I used to be a bit of a gym rat back in my late forties and into my fifties. Weight training four days a week and sticking to a pretty rigid diet. I kept up that regime for just over six years without a break. I still do a little light weight training at home and it’s paying off now as I await having my hip replaced at the end of next month. My muscle mass isn’t what it was but it’s still pretty good overall although I’m far from as ripped as I once was. The physio was delighted with me and informed me it will be of great benefit to me as I recover from the surgery. Any resistance training is a good thing and age is not a barrier, just discuss it with your doctor before getting stuck in and stay away from the big scary weights. Leave those to the younglings.
We have a few dumbbells and bar bells of Twang Jr’s but I have no idea how to use them beyond picking them up. Any tips? Is there a good YouTube channel? I’m acutely aware of the potential for damaging yourself!
I do a lot of walking – 3 or 4 miles a day at good pace and track my heart points with Google Fit. I feel weaker though and would like to do something about it.
It’s something you need to be shown or the potential for doing yourself a mischief is very real. I could go on about adhering to strict form and making sure you fully warm up and cool down after training sessions. Don’t increase weight if it means sacrificing form and target muscle groups with the correct exercises. Don’t train if you are still sore from the previous session or if you are feeling unwell. No gain without pain is bullshit. It’s normal to feel sore the next day but not in serious pain. Weight training means pushing your muscle beyond what you usually demand of it, encouraging it to grow slowly to meet the extra demand you are placing upon it. So don’t over do it. It’s a slow process.
I’ve not checked out You Tube but if you are serious about it join a gym. You need proper one to one instruction when you are starting out.
Thanks, excellent advice.
Main thing – warm up. Start with what seem like really easy weights. Plenty of you tube sessions. Let’s face it the issue is not choosing the best one but actually choosing one and doing it.
The personal trainer is what you need. I rejoined a gym on my retirement earlier this year. Rather than just cardio i threw myself into the strength training. As Mr. Squeezer says – you can hurt yourself with the wrong form/ too much weight. I have transitioned from machine to free weights – and damn – after 6 or 7 months i feel stronger, am lighter and enjoying it. I am 64 – it’s never too late.
My dad (who taught physical training in the Army) said he would disown me if I ever joined a gym, “discipline and your own body weight is all you need”, apparently. That aside, about eight years ago I got a little fold-up rowing machine that only uses a resistance band. More importantly, it has a clip for a phone/ipad so I can watch nonsense on YouTube for about 15 minutes. After that I do a hundred twists and 75 knee-to-elbow things, again while watching nonsense (Daily Show, Seth Myers and so forth).
It doesn’t make me svelte, but offsets the beers and crisps I still indulge in sometimes. My internal alarm goes off when I go over a certain weight and I’ve kept this size for nearly a decade. I’d love to be a stone lighter but I’d have to give up anything fun and exercise twice as much.
A dog or two are handy for insisting on a certain number of steps. I have never enjoyed exercising so it was a delight to discover I loved (wild) swimming, despite my appalling technique and any lack of style or stamina to my stroke. Home circumstances have denied any swimming for around 3 months, until today, it a delight I could still manage a half circuit of our local, a quarry reclaimed by the water table. Only 200m but it’s back on the start.
The dog gets at least 0.5 mile a day – she’s getting on a bit, so she dictates the length of the walk.
I do 1.5 miles on my own.
Gym 2 – 3 times a week, one heavy session, one mid session. Gym session also has a brisk walk and run in it.
Refereeing when we’re in-season is about 8km a match, often in 42 degree heat.
I cycle about 60 miles – mostly on dedicated cycle routes around Glasgow.
Really enjoy it !
Swimming for me.
I go 4 or 5 times a week to the outdoor pool and do 20 lengths (1000m). Feels like a good daily workout, although I have been getting a little slower recently.
Sometimes go to gym for the exercise bike when the pool is closed due to lightning activity. I know that I should do some weight training to maintain muscle mass, but don’t really know where to start. I convince myself that swimming is to some extend resistance training and so that will do…..
I used to go to the gym a lot when I was younger. These days I walk quite a lot, I also have a weights bench and weights that I would normally use two or three times a week but they’re currently in storage as we are between house moves.
The main thing I do and find most useful is yoga, particularly power yoga, and pilates. I don’t do in person classes but do live on line and recorded classes with Yoga Easy who I would recommend.
Still run 6 or 7 days a week — 5k on weekdays, 10k weekends. Everything’s still just about holding up (I’m 62). Bit of lightish weight training (26kg) 6 or 7 days a week. Wasn’t at all sporty at school but discovered exercise in my 20s. Will try and keep it up as long as possible.
I’m fortunate in that I really want to do the things that exercise me best – cycling, dancing and walking.
Cycling: when I have to leave the house, my assumption is that I will be cycling to wherever I have to be; if it’s a little further, then I will cycle to a station and get there. Having that built into your daily life guarantees decent fitness, stamina, etc.
Dancing: I’ve spent 13 nights of August at festivals, and have danced most days, and often more than once. It was the soles of my feet that were giving way by the end of Shrewsbury, but my lungs would have gone on forever. An evening at a ceilidh is as good a workout as you’ll ever get, with the added bonus of an endorphin overdose.
Walking: my Strava record tells me that, even when I am just mooching around a foreign town, I end up walking miles. My last holiday was in Portugal in June and, frankly, all I needed was some landscape and architecture to look at, and I was happily occupied for the day.
Swimming: I would love to swim more, but I just don’t find the time. Retro mentions wild swimming, and that appeals, but Cheshire’s multitudinous meres and pools are all spoiled by blue/green algae.
Agricultural run-off. Where we are we also occasionally suffer from having to re-route our walkies to avoid clouds of indeterminate chemical sprays being applied from enormous rigs controlled from the comfort of a £100k tractor by a bloke who is probably updating his Farceberk page while the tractor and its GPS system uncaringly gas passing pedestrians. It’s healthy out here in the British countryside.
Run for 10 miles usually 2 or 3 times per week
I walk my terriers once every day – between 1.5 and 3 miles each time, depending upon route taken/level of weather inclemency. I always walk at my natural cadence, which is quite fast by human standards, equating to a pretty good workout for my shorter legged companions. I usually (weather depending) arrive back at the house with a good glow on. We are lucky in that a few yards from the garden gate we are on public footpaths or field edges, and that is the principal reason why it’s possible for me to pursue a canine-centred fitness programme.
My wife and I joined a Nordic pole walking group over 2 years ago I do on overage 5 sessions per week, she does 3-4 as she works. We also walk in winter months with night torches. All of the walks are from about 6 locations in Cannock chase. Each location has about 12 different walk options so there is plenty of variety I am averaging about 18 miles per week and have lost close to 2 stone since we started. In addition we have met some good friends
What I really need to do is Yoga – I need to improve me suppleness which is not getting any better.
All praise to Skechers got their slip in shoes.
I too will happily pile praise upon Skechers slip ins. Game changing footwear. I bought two pairs. They make life so much easier when dealing with a knackered hip. It still takes me close to ten painful minutes to pull a sock onto my right foot though.
I must recommend these. Mate of mine is fit as a butcher’s dog and swears by these barefoot shoes. You can get much more expensive ones but I went for these as a trial – I love them! Rarely wear anything else. So comfortable!
Mens Barefoot Shoes Wide Toe Minimalist Trail Running Shoes Zero Drop Walking Shoe Outdoor Casual Sneaker https://amzn.eu/d/2mF62yJ
I didn’t know Nordic poles liked being walked. Interesting.
I played walking football regularly since I turned 50. The last couple of years have been harder with a lot of knee, ankle and hip pain. I haven’t played for about a year but have recently joined my local gym. I try to do 2 or 3 sessions a week – treadmill, recumbent cycle and elliptical trainer for about an hour or more each time. I have been to a few Pilates and yoga classes as well. I do feel better and I will progress into the weight contraptions soon. But they are somewhat intimidating…
Was that Nordic Pole walking or Nordic Pole Dancing Steve?
I would most likely prefer the Nordic Pole dancing but sadly we have an aversion to illegals immigrants these days and don’t know of any legal Nordic pole dancers.
Chubby Checkers!
I took up running again reasonably seriously around 2017 and have done many 10K races and one half marathon (ended up in emergency after that), have had illness and injuries most of the last 3 or 4 years which was very frustrating but started doing Parkruns last year and just did my 25th. I am very slow but glad I am still doing it. It gets harder each year to achieve some level of fitness in the spring. I need to do more in the winter, too cold/dangerous to run outside. Want to find time to do swimming or maybe get a stationary bike at home.
Aim for this year is to do a 10K before the snow comes, say by mid November Not sure I will make it.
After 4 knee operations I had a full right knee replacment in Dec 2023, but am now feeling the effects of decades of overcompensation in the left leg. As a result I really need to keep the weight down, so I have started going for a 3 mile walk most days. We live near the Thames, which is about 1.5 miles away, so it’s an easy circular route. However, I really cannot abide the heat of the summer, which seems to be getting worse the older I get, so it’s much easier in the autumn and winter.
Walking used to be my thing. I’d go the Lake District, Brecon Beacons, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Quantocks, Malverns, North York Moors, South Downs, Peak District at the drop of a hat. There’s absolutely nothing to beat the spiritual fulfilment of being at the top of a Lakeland fell on a silent sunny day. That was a long time ago. Then I developed arthritis. I’ve had one hip done, but the other will need attention one day. I’ve got arthritis in my feet and hands. On a good day I can get away with 5 miles, but on a bad day it’s like ploughing through treacle. I’m now prone to tendonitis in my wrists, which is currently causing me so much grief that it’s all I can do to tie my shoelace.
Getting old is fucking overrated.
Weights twice a week, football twice a week and run 50km – usually three 10ks and a half marathon.
If anything, I’m probably exercising too much and resting too little, but I do enjoy it and I find I’m much happier for it.
No idea how sustainable it all is, but I guess I’ll just adapt if and when my body sends the signal to slow down.
Well done to everyone on the thread who is getting exercise in, whatever form that might take. Best investment you’ll ever make.
I’d heartily agree with that last sentiment. For those lucky enough to be still fit and active after passing certain age milestones, take every opportunity you can to remain so. It’s only when your body starts to let you down that you realise how quickly that fitness can be snatched away. Make the most of every minute.
That’s exactly how I see it.
One day I’m sure I’ll kill to be able to pop out the front door and go run. The human body isn’t a gift, it’s on loan – it makes sense to make the most of it.
I keep reading that weights is something that we should all be doing, but I have never built that into a routine; nothing I do regularly works my arms. I am a reverse Popeye; I’m a big lad, but my arms are not at all strong.
I really enjoy weights and would recommend them to anyone who fancies a go.
Just start on the machines until you’re comfortable, then move to free weights if and when you fancy it. Tons of guidance online for form and training programs, but it’s very much something you can take at your own pace.
50k a week? That insane!
(I was once managing occasional 25K in a week)
I’ve taken up origami.
You’ll soon give that up – there’s too much paperwork.
No, I can’t see him folding.
@Gary recently.
Did it get you in shape, and if so which one?
Getting a dog a couple of years ago means walking on the beach for about 45 minutes most days except when I am busy at work, which is when my better half does it.
I love it. I heard someone say once that you never regret a walk in the open air and that is very true. I particularly like the challenge of inclement weather – I remember the words of Billy Connolly who said that there’s no such thing as bad weather, just incorrect clothing. Having said that, I will admit that when it’s very cold and windy and it’s absolutely pissing down, it’s more appealing to stay indoors.
I have a watch with the steps, heart rate, star sign and inside leg stats but I have developed an aversion to getting into all that stuff. I just want to do it for its own sake. This includes not listening to music or podcasts. The dog runs like mad but always watches me and wants interaction, so I think I owe her my full attention.
Thanks for some excellent ideas I hadn’t thought of yoga but that seems doable. Cycling unless at the gym is out as I don’t feel safe anymore on a bike though I’m thinking an electric trike might be a goer.
Tai Chi may be worthy of consideration. I’m thinking of giving it a go when I’ve been fixed.
I’ve quite liked yoga. Pilates is a bit less mystical but both do provide a noticable benefit. Body Pump looks like hell on earth with a pretty shite soundtrack though so I find it very resistible.
I don’t mind walking around if it’s an interesting place, the weather is good, or I’ve got an interesting conversant (though walking and talking is now harder than it was). I loathe sports and hairy-arsed exercise, and and am not mad about the shiny happy people in sports centres, either. Those places scare me off, with their bloody awful music, nasty smells, and the butch changing rooms and gym equipment full of testosterone and intra-sexual competition. I don’t mind swimming if the water is warm, but driven aggressive swimmers (and exercisers) again repel me. I’d like a dog to take for walks, and it would definitely get me out, as the dog would be a perfect companion for the hill behind us, but the FPO doesn’t like dogs.
I have sometimes thought a gym with AW-friendly music, a variety of methods to scare off normies and gym-class bullies, and a culture of contempt for 6-packs and body fascism is a good idea.
I HAVE, however, lost 20kg in the past year due to the magic action of Mounjaro alone. Moreover, as this is clearly not due to exercise, and I still seem to eat well, with the exception that I have stopped drinking beer and cider, shifted to gin or vodka and slimline, and cut out bar snacks leads me to think there is a leaner me returning, and I may not regain the modest paunch of the successful man I was once known for. Being lighter means you mobilise more, and a virtuous cycle emerges. But if I get into sport or gyms, you’ll know there is some fundamental change in my mentation requiring investigation.
I’ve been loosely contemplating posting about my own Mounjaro experience, so it’s interesting to hear from a fellow traveller. I was pre diabetic and finding walking for more than 15 minutes a real challenge.
I started the injections on Jan 3rd and I’m now 32kg down (5 stone in old money). As someone prone to being utterly sedentary I set myself the minor challenge of getting in 3000 steps a day – as someone who works from home a typical day would rarely require more than 500 steps and my smart watch would often ask if I was actually still breathing.
Exactly as you say, mobility gets easier as weight reduces and it wasn’t long before I was routinely walking 6000 steps, and then starting to jog for a few yards then walking a few. Fast forward 8 weeks and I’ve replaced my Vans with proper running shoes, found compression shorts with pockets (essential so I can listen to podcasts as I plod), and the run to walk ratio has slowly changed from 10/90 to 75/25. I’m rarely covering more than 6k – and ironically the more I run the less steps I get in – but I’ve shocked myself in the way that I find myself actually looking forward to getting out and doing it.
Taking up running at age 65 might not be the smartest thing to do – my left knee gripes when I go up or down steps. I’m also wondering if it will appeal less as the nights draw in and it gets cold, but so far I’m actually enjoying myself.
Interesting to hear your experience – and the synergy it has with exercise, if you can take that further step. well done! I still feel averse to running, though. My glasses may fall off, and my eyeballs jiggle as I read. But I quite like moving around faster and getting out of a chair (or into one) with a John Shuttleworth “oof”.
I don’t do as much rowing as I used to, but still do a couple of on the water sessions with my Cornish gig crew and quite a spicy 10K on the Concept 2 each week.
I’ve swapped all the other indoor rowing sessions I used to do for a variety of calisthenics programmes each week. I loath the gym, won’t pay for it, and much prefer doing programmes using my own body weight.
What I desperately need to also do though is yoga. Two years of training to row the Atlantic means I’m strong in one very linear direction, but my flexibility is appalling.
Started running just under 10 years ago – at 54. Still do a couple of 5 mile runs in the week and longer run on a Sunday. Was doing Half Marathons, but last couple of years have brought the distance back as my stamina just hasn’t been the same. B12 deficiency and a recently diagnosed heart murmur may be factors in this.
Since retiring a couple of years ago have meant to get swimming more and like Jim above want to really give Yoga a go.
Walk everywhere so 10,000 steps a day is usually not a problem.
I have played tennis for years, which is great all round exercise and I’m lucky to have an indoor tennis centre in my road, which helps! I am now 75 and the knee has started hurting, which restricts walking – something Mrs. T like to do a lot – so I fear some intervention there may be on the horizon.
Have recently joined the local bowls club – great fun, and surprisingly good exercise! Reached the semi-final of the over 70s handicap this year and only got beaten 21-19 by one of the best players….gutted!
I’m just back from the gym, having done an interval session using the Concept2 rower, followed by the SkiErg (also made by the Concept2 folks), the stationary bike, and the cross trainer.
I do something along those lines three times a week, and on the days between it’s strength training, usually comprising five exercises with just a single set of each. My approach runs counter to the ‘three sets of 8 reps’ type methods touted by many in the fitness industry, but it works brilliantly. The key is ‘time under tension’, ie doing the exercises slowly, with good form, not resting at any point during the set, until genuine muscular failure is reached (‘positive failure’ as it’s called, ie we’re unable to move the weight up, we’ve reached the sticking point).
Every day I do some Chi Gung, which is a bit like Tai Chi and is great for balance and for building what @jim mentions above, ie the ability to be functional in more than just one or two ‘planes of movement’. Great for proprioception too, that sense of where the body is in space, what with this being the age of ‘having a fall’ rather than just ‘falling’. I walk loads, and maybe sometimes jog on the spot so my fitbit step count nudges up that bit more.
Exercise has been crucial throughout my life. Long, long before my ADHD diagnosis, I naturally gravitated towards doing loads of sporty activities, a kind of unconscious self medication for all that fizzing energy. Trouble is, sport tends to result in injury, and so it was that my (overly) competitive running days were wrecked by knee troubles, and my kickboxing years were scuppered by hip issues. The running, I miss. Not the competitive element, but that mind/body freedom that ensues on those long, steady outings ( Bingo Little et al, I’m envious!)
in awe of @bingo-little. I manage parkrun and usually one other run a week, and an hour of fairly intense singles tennis. Building exercise into your everyday life is a great piece of advice – in my case cycling to work twice a week which racks up 34k without taking any more time out of the week. I would add to all of the above that variety is key to avoiding injury. I never run twice in two days, and always either cycle or play tennis and (fingers crossed) have avoided anything serious.
Am 60 pretty soon, and magically all my effort stats will be so much better as I enter the 60-64 age band.
Dude, you sound like you’re doing absolutely great for someone pushing 60.
All that really matters is to find a way to keep moving. I just want to keep going as long as I can – that matters far more than how much or little I’m doing right now.
Haven’t been in a gym since school. But I cycle everywhere, and walk a lot. Got rid of the car 5 years ago and fortunate to live close enough to city to not need to use one. Not very fit aerobic-wise or in muscle strength, but I just pedalled 5000km across China using an e-bike. Which was nice.
Wow, sounds an amazing adventure!
Indeed! Will you post about it in the upcoming blogger takeover? Sounds like it could be an amazing tale.
Never been one for the gym, but my wife and I have been doing pilates for over 10 years and it’s probably the best thing we’ve done. We used to go to a studio and supplement the sessions with stuff at home, but the studio changed hands, our instructor left and the prices went up, so we bit the bullet and bought some equipment. Try to use it every day, it’s amazing how many parts of the body you can work in 10-15 minutes.
We’ve got one of those elliptical trainers for cardio when it’s either too hot to go walking or pelting with rain (+ I can watch stuff to relieve the boredom), and a bunch of small weights and stretchy things.
Life’s too hectic for a regular regime, but doing as much as you can as often as you can seems to be the general recommendation.
Pilates, the great corrective. I forgot to mention that it’s part of my regime, too. Love it.
I wasn’t sure I was old enough to qualify to piost on this thread, but as youngsters like Rigid and Bingo have shared their energetic activities, I guess it’s OK – though it scares me if they think of themselves as being in their twilight years…
I cycle to and from work along the Rhine 3 times a week – that’s about 30km, I do all shopping by bike or foot and we usually go for a long walk on a Sunday. Our holidays in Wells and Paris this summer consisted in walking across both locations every day – which is more considerable in the latter, of course. This morning, as I do usually about three times a month, I take a large trolley and collect 6 crates of water (50 litres) in glass bottles about a kilometer home from the supermarket, then up three flights of stairs by hand. I suppose that’s a form of weight training.
When I am fit enough and free, I go swimming twice a week in the pool 2 minutes from our front door – that’s about 2.5 km in total.
The one thing I would like to do more of is some sort of flexibility training, particularly for my legs – cycling is great for giving tight hamstrings. I used to do both T’ai Chi and (Iyengar) yoga and can recommend both for good posture and flexibility.
Yin yoga’s my favourite yoga variety. I see it as the dub reggae to the Bikram drum n bass types, ie holding poses for several minutes, and feeling the increase in flexibility as the time goes by.
I’m fairly fit and, apart from the odd brain tumour or two, healthy. The problem I’ve found recently is lack of energy. I’ve just turned 63-and-a-quarter and my energy for doing anything is at an all time low. Probably not helped by the humidity, heat and marijuana.
Low testosterone?
I’m lucky that in my mid 60s my knees are holding up well enough for running – three times a week – and I do a couple of workouts at home with small weights and resistance bands, plus a pilates session.
Plenty of people here see that regular brisk walks can do a lot of good, and I think it’s improved by Nordic walking. The poles make you work a little harder without pushing close to the edge; but it is easier if you’re in an area with lots of clear paths or wide pavements. I wouldn’t recommend trying to go through a busy high street with the poles.
I hadn’t heard of Nordic Walking. That explains the relatively fit people with sticks.
I’d rather be “California sober”.
Thought my running was respectable, but Bingo has put paid to that. I will usually do at least two 5k runs a week, and quite often push one of them on into a 10k. This being the AW though, I am curious as to what people listen to while running? I have a couple of podcasts that I save for a run, and if they’re exhausted I have a running playlist that is mostly punk and metal. I log much faster times when I listen to that over a podcast. Can I share it here? Let’s find out
https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/running/pl.u-A4xeuKEa69
The other thing that helps is that my job is a very mobile one. I’m on my feet most of the day, and it’s a rare work day where I don’t get at least 15,000 steps in.
Ooh – Japandroids and Titus Andronicus are on my running playlist too!
I can do podcasts if it’s a slow run, but if I’m actually pushing it a bit then it has to be either music or nothing at all.
Your running sounds perfectly respectable to me. End of the day, if you’re getting out there a couple of times a week I’d say you’re crushing it.
If others have running playlists I’d love to see them. Always on the lookout for stuff to add to mine.
Ooh – Japandroids and Titus Andronicus are on my running playlist too!
I can do podcasts if it’s a slow run, but if I’m actually pushing it a bit then it has to be either music or nothing at all.
Your running sounds entirely respectable to me. End of the day, if you’re getting out there a couple of times a week I’d say you’re crushing it.
If others have running playlists I’d love to see them. Always on the lookout for stuff to add to mine.
This is an interesting idea, as reported in the Times, around not thinking of yourself as old, which, heaven forfend, of course none of us are, being merely part used, one (usually) owner:
“Everyone knows the basic recipe for a long life: eat your greens, take the stairs, avoid marrying someone with a fondness for reckless driving. But there may be another, rather less wholesome elixir of longevity: thinking poorly of older people.
This, at least, is one conclusion from a study that tracked nearly 800 adults in Germany for 15 years. Published in the journal Psychology and Aging, the findings suggest that a dash of ageism can be surprisingly good for your survival.
The researchers set out to measure two types of views on ageing. The first, the personal view, captures how you imagine your own future self at 70 or 80: still sharp, still sociable — or perhaps decrepit and friendless.
The second, generalised views on ageing, encompasses what stereotypes you have embraced about older adults in general: do you picture them as wise and experienced, or as forgetful, slow and ill?
The findings suggest that prophecies do tend to fulfil themselves. People who imagined their own old age positively were less likely to die during the years the study was running. Optimism, in other words, does not just cheer you up: it may help keep you around.”
I’m already decrepit and friendless, forgetful and slow. I’ll probably struggle to make it to Monday.
Well, I’ll keep picturing you as a boy, to see if that helps.
Perv.
@pencilsqueezer when things have settled down here and you’ve had your ops* we shall all have to meet up.
*any further news?
I’m to present myself at Abergele Hospital at 7:30 am on 25th September to have a saw taken to my leg. Unfortunately cataract surgery on my left eye was scheduled to take place on October 1st which is far too soon after the hip replacement surgery so after some pretty stressful mucking around on the telephone I finally managed to get the cataract surgery postponed. I’ve no idea when that will happen now. Rescheduling that is entirely dependent upon how fast and how well I recover from the hip surgery.
J has had two hip ops done, she says always do the exercises they give you. Good luck and keep us informed.
I will and I will. Say hi to J for me.