Parsvottanasana

This is my 15 year anniversary of my bilateral hip replacements. And, as well, the subsequent stay at Hunters Hill Private Hospital where I did 12 days of rehabilitation.

On my return home, my husband Daniel made a great video clip of my walking up the stairway to our home without needing to use a stick. He put some backing music to it – Patsy Kline’s Walking After Midnight –  and you can find it on the Internet as a YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49He3WJSFE8&feature=colike.

I tell people now that if anyone is having qualms about the surgery, they needn’t. Just get a great surgeon, do the rehab with the physios afterwards, and day-by-day, health and fitness will come back.

I feel grateful now to be able to do so many activities again that had become eroded before the surgery. I’m able to teach and practice yoga, garden, cycle, go bush walking, and I’m completely free from pain. I’m thankful that the technology exists to end the suffering of hip arthritis, and that I was able to avail myself of it.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein