Here comes a life adventure

Around Christmastime I get to have my right hip replaced.

I'm actually kind of thrilled about this. For literally years I've been slowly working on a lot of pain in my groin muscle. I thought it was tendinitis, and I was using massage and physical therapy and a hot tub and a lot of NSAIDs on the pain. Some movements were unlocking while others became inaccessible.

My own fault for not accessing actual medicine as soon as I should have, but my fellow Americans will understand why I didn't. (The physical therapist my doctor had sent me to had been treating six of us at the same time. "Here's a stretchy band. Follow this photocopied exercise sheet while I work with the person behind the next curtain.")

But now I've had an xray and I have surgery scheduled, and if all goes well then next year walking and yoga and swimming will come back into my life.

I work from home and have never met most of my coworkers; they know me from a headshot and a name, which happens to be one of the classic millennial names. I just put a note in one of my Teams chats: "In case youre confused because most people with this name are young ... I'm not."

If you have tips to share, bring 'em on!