Knee Progressing Well

2 1/2 weeks ago I had a knee arthroscopy, first surgery I have had in about 25 years, and the first time I have really had to go through a recovery and rehabilitation process and it has meant I have not been able to ride my bike and have been housebound for a while. I am now back driving which is great, but do not always have a car! I have been on the wind trainer- which means I hook my bike into a metal stand and can ride the bike stationary. I started off doing 10 to 15 minutes with absolutely no tension and now I up doing 2 lots of 30 minutes a day if I can, and have been able to add a bit of tension which has been good. I have been religiously doing my exercises and having phyiso- at work which is great. I am walking the dogs with Bill in the morning but leaving a bit later with Clancy and meeting him with the other dogs and just walking on the paths and that has been getting easy each day. Hopefully in 4 to 6 weeks it will back to normal and I will be back on my road bike on the road! I have had to really be carefully with what I eat as I am not burning off as much energy because I am not riding as much!

Help With My Exercises

I have a number of exercises to do after having my knee arthroscopy, on of which involves lying on the bed with my leg elevated for a few minutes. I was attempting to do this, when next minute Jack and Benji decided they needed to help me! Clancy just supervised from the basket!

Last Lot of Family Photos

 Three generations of Frost men- Lachlan, Bill and Jim

 Family shot of us- Sue, Bill, Lachlan and Amy

 Bill's sister Mary, with husband Peter, Sam and Josephine

 Bill's sister Hilary, with husband Stuart and Tom

 Bill's cousin Jocelyn, husband Steve and Alex and Chris

The cousins, Tom, Jo, Sam, Amy, Alex, Lachlan, Christopher

Lots of Family Photos

 The Frost Cousins- John Davis, Alex Davis, Jocelyn James, Mary Newberry, Hilary Kirby, Christine Sherman, Bill Frost.

 Cousins and kids of cousins- Alex James, John Davis, Alex Davis, Jocelyn James, Mary Newberry, Hilary Kirby, Christine Sherman,, Bill Frost, Lachlan Frost, Chris James, Amy Frost, Jo Newberry, Sam Newberry, Tom Kirby

 Bill's Family- Bill, Hilary, Mary, Marian and Jim

 Frost Children with Partners- Sue, Stuart and Peter

Frost Children with Partners and Kids!

The photo combinations where just endless!

90th Birthday and Family Reunion

 Lachlan, Stuart and Amy

 Bill and I

 Thela the birthday girl 90 with her little brother Jim- 88

 Bill and his sister's Hilary and Mary

 Thela- Bill's Aunt and the reason for the celebration

Marian, Jim, Mary, Hilary and Bill

We traveled up to Sydney last weekend for Bill's Aunt's 90th birthday. We had a lovely time and it was also a family reunion. Jim (Bill's dad and Thela's little brother 88) and his wife Marian traveled over from Adelaide,  Bill sister Mary and her family travelled down from Darwin, Hilary and her family travelled from Melbourne. Jim and Thela had a sister Pat, who died of breast cancer a number of years ago, has three children who live in New Zealand, and they all travelled over for the weekend as well. It was a lovely time and a great opportunity for some photos.

Lachlan- Alias Snake

Lachlan was heading out to a 21st party last night, he came out dressed like this- he was Snake- a character from some computer game, I have no idea what game or who he is, but he looked pretty fierce! He came up with a pretty good costume seeing as though he was asking me about an hour before we had to leave where Bill kept his old army stuff and did I have any scissors! I couldn't have come up with anything like that at short notice. We were having dinner with Simon and Bindi and some other friends, so we all got a good laugh at Lachlan!

MRI of my Knee

I had to have an MRI of my knee this week, it has been sore since April and has not responded to physio, so further investigations were needed. I have not had anything like this done before so it was quite an experience and had to lie still for 20 minutes and then part with a lot of money for which I get none back! It turns out I have torn my meniscus as my boss predicted, so it is off to the specialist this week to find out when I have the arthroscopy which hopefully will fix it. I am just grateful I can still ride my bike without it hurting!