Date: 20th Dec 2009 Stats: 7.0 miles, 800 feet Weather: Crisp, clear morning, –8 degrees at the car, sunshine all the way Trig Points: 2: TP3795 – High Neb, TP6150 – Stanage Edge Wainwrights: N/A Other Info: Roadside parking below Callow Bank Summary: Stanage Edge, High Neb, lower path along face of escarpment, Stanage Edge …
Tag Archive: knee
Dec 01 2009
Back home
Well the op went well apparently. The consultant tells me that there was minimal damage to the knee and she only had to do a small amount of remedial work. I was last on her list so spent the whole day waiting, sat on my own with an audiobook slowly getting hungrier and thirstier as …
Nov 24 2009
One last walk before the op!
I have one weekend left before I go under the knife – so I have my fingers, toes, legs and everything else that is even remotely cross-able, crossed in the hope of half-decent weather. I’m hoping that Tex will be able to join me now that his weekends have become slightly less manic and I …
Oct 29 2009
Official: I’m Old!
I’ve been told I’m old – officially, by a doctor no less. Of course she didn’t use the work “old”, she used something much more laden with dread and clouded with preconceptions. She told me I have arthritis! The good news (apparently) is that it’s osteo and not rheumatoid. I’ve always had a dodgy right …