Hikingdan: I’m Just A Guy Who Loves Hiking Across Spain!

I don’t remember fully understanding the pain after my first knee replacement. I expected discomfort. I expected stiffness. I expected soreness in the joint itself. What I didn’t fully grasp—until much later—was why the pain felt the way it did, or why it seemed to show up in places I […]

The Games We Play to Get Dressed After Knee Replacement Yesterday felt like a small milestone. I went to my first physiotherapy intake appointment and booked out the next four weeks of sessions. I also removed my surgical bandage and replaced it with a fresh one, knowing my staples are […]

The Joint Hurts Less — So Why Does the Rest of My Leg Hurt More? Four days after my second knee replacement, I’ve caught myself stopping more than once and thinking, “this really doesn’t feel like the first time.” That caught me off guard. On paper, this surgery was essentially […]

A Few Important Clarifications About Knee Replacement, Pain, and Recovery It’s been a few days since my last blog entry, and with Christmas behind me, this felt like a good time to write again. Recently, I’ve heard comments like “You can’t guarantee the pain will be gone,” or “Mobility won’t […]

Hospital meals are not casual suggestions — they are scheduled events. Very scheduled. Far apart. And unlike at home, there’s no wandering into the kitchen to see what might magically appear. So when a small container of Jell-O arrives, it suddenly becomes important. I’m fairly certain I ate more Jell-O […]

The Conversations That Changed Everything on Surgery Day I walked into surgery today expecting a replay of my first knee replacement. Same hospital. Same procedure. Same routine. What I didn’t expect was how different the experience would feel — and how much of that difference would come from the anaesthesiology […]

Tomorrow Is Surgery Day As I’m packing tonight and getting ready for an overnight stay in the hospital tomorrow, it’s hard not to think back to how afraid I was when I was first told I would eventually need knee replacement surgery. My knees had hurt for a long time. […]

A Peaceful, Reflective, Serene, and Important Memorial. I am home from my trip to the United Kingdom and was going through my hundreds of photos yesterday. I know I mentioned this place periodically but I didn’t really devote much time to it on my blog. I’m talking about the Canadian […]

We Holt to Sheringham Return Today was fantastic! We took the teturn steam train ride to the beach resort town of Sheringham grom Holt! We later drove back to the town of Holt. It was so picturesque! I loved it and it reminded me of a much better Niagara-on-the-Lake. This […]