Male logic...

(deactivated member)
on 9/13/08 6:12 am - Columbus, GA

As part of my rehab I have to walk... and I was instructed to walk slowly, concentrating on proper knee bend and landing the foot right and all that, and using a support such as the aluminum walker.

My lawn really needs mowing too....

so...

Using the lawn mower as support, I walked slowly behind it concentrating on proper knee bend and landing the foot right :)

Logic! .... cool beans eh

I needed a shower and pain meds afterwards BIG TIME!

Feel pretty good now.... gonna nap as soon as the pils knock me out....

Candygirl
on 9/13/08 6:23 am - Somewhere in, NY

RNY on 05/08/06

Marc

That's MY kind of logic! Good thinking!!!

When someone asks me if I have a formal exercise program, and I tell them "no", they ask why I don't just walk. My answer is always the same ...'WHERE?" I'm one of those peoople who have to have a very specific goal. For me, it would be meeting a friend at the end of the walk, or hitting the local coffee shop or the library. But to walk just to walk....can't do it. I'd be fine, out there, mowing the lawn though.

Hope everything heals quickly and well.

Candy

ikagram
on 9/13/08 6:29 am

I the same way. I have to walk to a person, place or thing. Thankfully I live in a small town were everything is just blocks away.

My after surgery instructions were NO GARDENING!! I specifically asked about mowing or just pulling weeds.
NO!! especially since I had the open RNY with revision

Cindy Strickland
Neenah, Wisconsin
Dr. Wasco
Midwest Bariatrics COE
Open RNY
07/09/2008

High/Sugery/Now/Dr. Goal/My Goal
354/299/229/170/150

Eileen Briesch
on 9/13/08 9:32 am - Evansville, IN

RNY on 06/29/04

You are as bad as my dad after his second hip replacement. Came home, intending to paint the porch the next day. My mom knew this and told my brothers to get there at 7 a.m. so they could do it before he got up.

Problem was, Dad got up at 6 a.m. and had it started before my mom could stop him (this was when they kept you in the hospital longer than three days).

Stubborn old man!

But I agree with Candy ... I'm not one to just walk for the sake of walking ... I can do that with swimming, but not walking. I'll go walk around the mall to shop, or walk around Meijer to shop, but just to walk ... no. Too boring. Give me a goal (although now that my replacement knee is not working properly, walking even hurts) ... wouldn't be mowing, because we have folks that do that in the condo complex. That's why I bought a condo.

Don't overdo it. Let me tell you, it's not fun when this goes bad. (And I didn't do anything wrong, either. I did my PT.)

Eileen Briesch

lap rny 6-29-04

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Brenda R.
on 9/13/08 11:31 am - Portage, IN

RNY on 10/08/07

Dear brother Marc, mowing the lawn is not a good thing to do since the lawn is known not to be a level area. There are so many nooks and crannys (kind of like a english muffin~those things that I use to love!) and holes. I wouldn't have wanted to be you if you found a hole. Do you know the damage that you could have done? Oh my oh my! I am just glad that you could take a shower and a pain pill and rest. It beats where you would have been if you found something terrible out there.

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.

(deactivated member)
on 9/13/08 11:47 am - Columbus, GA

RNY on 06/08/05

Yea.... I had thought of that.... I went real, real, REAL slow and made sure of my footing.... there wasn't much risk

Linda M.
on 9/14/08 3:25 am - PA

Oh my!

Male logic indeed!

Glad you didn't do any damage to your knee! Keep doing those exercises. Are you in physical therapy? My husband went after his total knee replacement and he said it made all the difference in the world.

Linda

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great." ..... MarkTwain

phfauche
on 9/14/08 5:21 am - Columbus, OH

REALIZE Band on 04/15/08

"Male logic" you got that right. I put you and my husband in the same boat, only he waited 2 weeks out to cut his grass. (the first week I hired someone to do it and he thought it was too much money, sooooo)

My husband did use a walker and also spent a lot of time on that machine that moves you leg for you, while you're laying down. I can't think what it's called. Even though I thought the time would never pass, within 6 weeks he was walking with his cane and sometimes without it.

Good Luck on your recouperation.

Hugs, Peggy

terrialbri
on 9/14/08 1:32 pm

RNY on 12/03/07

Marc, keep that knee moving! LOL Glad you're recuperating nicely. After my husband had the surgery, he would go out and walk up and down our driveway. My Dad (82 yo at the time) came to visit, and made sure he walked ahead of my hubby, and with his cane knocked all the pinecones out of the way so hubby wouldn't trip on them It was great to see my 2 favorite men getting their exercise.