Two weeks or more ago, I was wishing to walk in the timber. Leaves were changing, and the dry leaves of the trees have a wonderful smell in autumn. I have had to stop walking at various times over the years because of my knees, but once in a while I'll try again. For some reason, it worked this time. I don't know why old age pains sometimes get better for a while, but it happens. Even from day to day, the pain can be more or less. I've learned to do what I can when I can, knowing the changes aren't permanent.
I intended that first walk to be about ten minutes that day, which would get me to the nearest part of our timber. When I got there I noticed that my knees weren't hurting yet, so I walked on about ten or twelve minutes more before I turned and came back. Now mind you, I was walking slowly... but I was walking.
I've continued walking, probably five days weekly. I'm going much farther now, still walking slowly without real pain, although when I wake up next day, sometimes my knees do hurt; usually it's the replacement knee, on the left leg. On those days I don't do my walk in the pasture.
Walking like this won't last, it never does. But I'm making the best of it right now, and it is truly a gift. Gabe is glad to be back to walking with me, too. I told him to sit for a portrait, which he did; but I don't think he wanted to.
That's wonderful! Do you suppose it's the weather or the humidity that helps with the joints? (even artificial ones)
ReplyDeleteI really don't know. I do know that if I try to walk faster, it hurts before I'm through. I do walk extremely slow, or at least it seems like it to me, after years of walking fast enough to breath hard.
DeleteOh, the beauty of the leaves!! Gabe posed pretty!!
ReplyDeleteYour dog is even happier than you when you can walk to the timber.
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