Evel Knievel liked amazing stunts. Was he a hip replacement hero or broken bone madman?
+1 For those of us in midlife the name Evel Knievel means something. For a start it was a really
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Category: Midlife Health & Fitness
Middle age health and fitness stories charting body and mental decline, and the things you can do about it. Includes a multi-part hip replacement story.
12 months after – a total hip replacement recovery story. Was 2020 the strangest year ever?
12 months in my total hip replacement recovery story. In the end 2020 was much more than that, with Covid, lockdowns and a new job being thrown into the mix.
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Zwift for Middle Aged Men in Garages. Could it get more exciting?
Is Zwift for middle aged men a good idea, especially those with an artificial hip?
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Working from home is no laughing matter…don’t let it be the death of you
+1 Day 241 and the silence is killing me. Turns out working from home isn’t all fun and games. It’s
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Try something new to save your sanity. Surprisingly it was Brussels and Zwift that did it for me.
+1 With Covid keeping us locked up once more, the advice is to try something new if you want to
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Six months after hip replacement. Did it exceed all expectations?
My performance review of my hip replacement 6 months after the operation. What rating will I give it?
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My middle-age spread is not low fat margarine, but do people find it as tasty?
Middle-age spread is something people frown upon, but is it actually tastier than the low fat margarine you need to fight it?
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Ice, ice baby. Summer’s here and the time is right…for cool cocktails and novelty ice cubes
Summer’s here and the time is right. Lockdown could be coming to an end, the sun is still shining, and we’re all feeling a little happier. Although the time may not be right for dancing in the street just yet, it is the time for making and shaking some cool cocktails and ice cubes to match.
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Great news! Blueberry Muffin Day is getting closer.
Blueberry muffin day is coming. What’s the background to one of coffee’s greatest lovers, and how do you make one. Going to Minnesota might be a start.
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Frustrated with a boring middle age existence. You need to be more Don…
It’s easy to get frustrated with a boring middle aged existence especially when you worry about everything and everyone else. Well don’t. Listen to the little man in your head. Be more Don.
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Agonising over how to be happy? Don’t do it for you. Do it for Don.
If you’ve been struggling with how to be happy, here’s something you can do to improve your mental health. Don’t try and make changes for you, do it for someone else. Do it for Don.
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Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks 3 to 7 (Part 6)
A total hip replacement recovery story, charting progress from week 3 to week 7 post hip replacement operation
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Hip replacement recovery days 6 to 21. Coming on in leaps and bounds. Sadly not. (Part 5)
Hip replacement recovery story: the day 6 to day 21 improvements post hip replacement operation
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Hip replacement surgery and week 1 recovery. It all goes horribly wrong… (Part 4)
Hip replacement surgery is supposed to be routine, but I had a horrible blip. A tale of the operation, blip and recovery.
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Scarily close to middle age hip replacement. What was I thinking pre-op? (Part 3)
Having signed up to a middle age hip replacement, the day fast approached. I occasionally had doubts but pain convinced me otherwise. This is the story of what happened next…
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Shock decision about having a total hip replacement at 50! 5 things that worried me. (Part 2)
Total hip replacement at 50 needs some thinking about. This is part 2 of my total midlife hip replacement story – how it came to be
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My body used to fix itself…sadly it doesn’t any more and so midlife arthritis ends with a hip replacement story (Part 1)
Arthritis isn’t for old people, it can strike at any time if you’re unlucky. The start of a hip replacement story.
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Can resorting to powerful chemicals to enhance midlife romance actually deliver?
One man’s experience of using chemicals to pep up middle aged sex life
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