18 months after my hip replacement and recovery is still ongoing. It’s my bad habits I need to break.
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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.
Man trying to recreate Gascgoine’s “dentist’s chair” celebration ends up having root canal surgery
As England’s relentless progress to football greatness stuttered and fell, one man who wanted to recreate Paul Gascoignes famous “dentist’s chair” England goal celebration ended
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“I’m never going out again”, says man after post-lockdown bender. How alcohol impacts your body.
Alcohol impacts your body in many ways, as people have been finding out as they nurse post lockdown hangovers.
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It’s party time! Why post-lockdown anxiety can be exhausting for the middle-aged
A middle aged friend of mine claimed to be “exhausted” this week from post-lockdown anxiety. This came after spending two consecutive nights socialising, and being
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Decision making stressing you out? Here’s some tips for making that difficult decision
If you are struggling with decision making, the answer may be a lot simpler than you think And making a decision will make you happier than not making one at all.
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Remember that special holiday? Possibly not. What are false memories and how can you make the best of them?
False memories mean that sometimes what you think happened never actually did. Why is that, and what can you do to leverage this brain quirk to make you happier
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Marvin the Paranoid Android describes midlife perfectly. Read how, and what you can do differently
Remember Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide? Marvin’s sayings reflect what many of us feel in middle age. Read how, and what you can do not be a Marvin.
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Evel Knievel liked amazing stunts. Was he a hip replacement hero or broken bone madman?
Evel Knievel is proof that a hip replacement isn’t necessarily the worst thing that can happen to you, and you can break a lot of other bones before it restricts you too much
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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? Find out how one midlife man got on.
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Working from home is no laughing matter…don’t let it be the death of you
Working from home is dangerous. Don’t wait for it to become a killer before you do something to change your ways, especially during Coronavirus lockdown
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Try something new to save your sanity. Surprisingly it was Brussels and Zwift that did it for me.
With Covid keeping us locked up once more, the advice is to try something new if you want to avoid cabin fever. With my hip
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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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Middle-age spread is not low fat margarine, but do people find it as tasty?
Middle-age spread is usually frowned upon, but it could be tastier than you think. Is it worth the pain to hold back that spreading stomach?
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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
Read more 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
Read more 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.
Read more 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…
Read more 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
Read more 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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