Health

I doubt that many readers were aware that last week was ‘Sleep Awareness Week’.  Many of you may have treated the week with a bit of a yawn (sic) and wondered why have a week devoted to celebrate sleep awareness. Perhaps you missed any reference to the designated week because there always seems to be […]

As many readers know, I had a total hip replacement aka total hip arthroplasty a week ago.  This procedure was not part of the retirement plan and forced many other plans to be revised and postponed.  Leading up to this surgery I had many worries, most of which proved ill founded.  Up to this point […]

You can prepare for some things in life. Some things you must accept as life unfolds.  In the world of postworksavvy,  joint replacement was not part of the plan. I’ve spent the past few days preparing for the hip replacement surgery that I wrote about in an earlier post.  There has been the busy work […]

‘When life hands you lemons, learn to make lemonade.’ quote usually attributed to Dale Carnegie A few weeks before my retirement in June I learned that I had moderately severe osteo-arthritis in my left hip and would eventually need a hip replacement.  The first reaction was denial — not me! How could a fit woman […]