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06 Tuesday Oct 2015

Posted by azahar in health & happiness, home

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health, knees

knees

Yesterday I had one of my famous “fall up the stairs” moments and – you guessed it – landed on my already damaged knee. Luckily (?) I already had my x-ray appointment booked so, instead of spending 5 hours waiting at emergency today, I grabbed a taxi to the clinic and was there and home again in less than 45 minutes. According to Dr A, there’s nothing broken, so that’s something. But I had to cancel my meetings and other activities for the rest of the day and have been sitting here with my leg up. Very frustrating because I had lots to do today, but I also have to work tomorrow, so I’d better give my knee a rest and hope it’s better in the morning. How’s your day been?

no cycling

03 Saturday Oct 2015

Posted by azahar in diet & nutrition, health & happiness

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fitness, health, knees, osteoarthritis

no cyclingSo dammit! Years ago I used to run almost every morning. It was the only aerobic exercise that I enjoyed. Then when I reached 40 my lower back and hips gave out, so I had to stop. And so I bought a bicycle and took regular jaunts along the river (though it actually felt like more exercise lugging the thing up and down three long flights of stairs). More recently I’ve taken to riding the recumbent bike at the gym, where I actually get a good sweat going, usually riding for about an hour.

Then my left knee starting giving me grief, starting a few months ago, feeling all stiff and achy, especially on the stairs. I chalked it up to age & weight and just got on with things. Until the other morning. Somehow overnight the knee situation got serious and it was suddenly VERY painful. So yesterday I went to see Dr Agustín and he wiggled my knee around a bit and went “whoah, listen to that!”. “That” being a clickety-click sound that I’d been trying to ignore. Anyhow, it seems I have a bad case of osteoarthritis which, yep, is most likely due to age & weight. And apparently there’s not much (anything?) I can do about it, other than lose weight to alleviate the stress on the knee. Except I was told to stop cycling (at least until Dr A sees the x-rays I’m getting done next week), which will make weight loss even more difficult. *sigh*

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