Baby You Can Drive My Car.

Ha, I have eventually got my car back. It's only cost me around £400 extra for my holiday by leaving the carkeys in Sweden! Geoffrey the bass player has just delivered it for me. Trouble is that I am not allowed to drive it. The physio chap said that I should not drive until I have done lots of strengthening exercises and seen him again (on the 3rd of March) for clearance. He said that if I did drive and had to 'grab' the wheel in an emergency all hell could break loose! Also he recommended that I use codeine again for a while as the exercises were likely to hurt like hell. Great, ya just wean yerself off it and then it's back on! Still, it works better now and the medical professional was right - I do need it.

Yesterday I managed a few chords on the guitar - what a great feeling after so long. It was all going really well for a good two minutes until I tried one of my favourite lead licks and nearly went through the roof! Do you know boys and girls, I ACTUALLY swore!

Little and often will be the way forward I think.

It's all good.

To be fair, I have had no arthritic pain whatsoever in the altered joint since the surgery and that in itself is magnificent.

Current Pain Rating: 1 ( 7 after exercises)