don't know what took me so long...

to get help for my back/hip problem...

i've been suffering since november and until the other day i really thought it might just get better on it's own - who was i kidding?

sooo i've now had 2 sessions with my new physio (she's great) and i'm noticing an improvement already -it's gonna be a reasonably painful and long road methinks - probably coz i was stubborn and left it way too long!

sometimes i wonder why i waited so long - i guess a small part of me was scared that they might tell me i needed a hip replacement and with everything else going on the thought of surgery was too much, and to me (and this is not intended to be offensive to anybody reading) hip replacement is usually surgery done to old people or elite sportsmen and women....so i think there had been enough other stuff going on in my health/life so that i didn't want one more little thing to make me feel old...

and don't get me wrong, i have no issue telling people how old i am (i'm 40) but i have really started to notice a decline in my ability to repair when things go wrong and i guess it just doesn't feel that good :-(

anyway, onwards and upwards, new physio is good, nice to talk to also, exercises are good and don't hurt and i'm slowly moving out of the 'in pain 24 hours a day' phase...