One month post operation

It has been exactly a month since the operation and this is what my hip loos like right now...I know, it feel like I am the Bionic man or something like that? Well, at least it is getting better and I am feeling stronger everyday. I would like to be able to drop a few pounds with all the exercises that I am doing, but then again you can't get everything at once. I can walk and get about my life pretty much like I want now, but getting up in the morning is still hard and walking up stairs is still a bit painful. But I am getting better everyday that is for sure, before long I will be back in running shape and that should make me a happy man. Never give up and never say no, where there is a will there is a way!




今日で一か月です、オペしてからもう普通の生活に戻りました。普通っていうのは、普通の人の普通の生活ですよ！ニコラスにとって普通はまだまだ時間かかります。でも、水の中で走れているし、自転車は外でもこけますし。どこがつらいというのは、朝一起きていきなり歩けないです、階段の上りはまだつらいです、片足立ちはちょっとしかできないです、二日前に自分で片足立ちでパンツはきましたけど。。。やっぱりつらかったです。でも、毎日は気合いです、毎日はあきらめないです、毎日は夢をあきらめずに前へ行くんだよ！

Photo Shoot for front cover !

There is a full blowing Typhoon on its way, and I had to make my way to the gym for a photo shoot. But that was nothing my car couldn't handle...

When I got to the gym there was a butterfly stuck behind the windows, and I thought that maybe the little bug that I spent two weeks in hospital with had grown up and flown over to my gym to see me.

Harajuku Yosakoi Fetival

This is another way of killing time at the red light...

This is my dog Tyson !

I tried to shoot a bilingual episode for my blog, but I was kind of distracted when Tyson started trying to eat my turtles...


これは、バイリングアルのテストですけど。。。まったく駄目でした！タイソンを外に出した瞬間、カメを食べよとしたときに飛んじゃったので！最後にちょこっと日本語しか出てこないけど。。。タイソンは可愛いから見てみてください！

Back teaching in my gym

I kinda missed my entry yesterday but that was because I was real busy
both trying to set up some small buisness, that I have trying to
establish. And also because I was doing my rehab. Rehab has been
turning into training lately and I am actually sore from the weights I
lifted the other day! My calf are sore from running in the pool but
it is a good kind of pain that I have missed for the last many months.
Once I am up and about I can work around the soreness and get on with
the daily workout. I am just about to go down to the local gym and
work out now!

Nicholas Pettas reporting after workout

I just realized that I had gained way too much weight over the last 3 weeks and although I have been doing my rehab it has been hard not to gain some. So I decided to start doing 2 work outs a day, and given the right amount of time that should do the job. But it is a lot of going back and forth from the house to pool to the gym, at least it is still really nice riding weather, not like the other day when I got caught in a mini typhoon!

Nicholas Pettas 3 weeks after recovery !

I was thinking that I might tell you about how my leg is getting along, it is getting along! :) I am going to the pool everyday and although I am able to even run inside the water now, once I get out I have some minor inflamation in my abductor so it is still hard to stabilize the movements. But I can tell that I am regaining a lot of the lost muscle mass and things are getting better. Sometimes I just get frustrated and just want to start running, but that is just because I tend to forget that it was just 3 weeks ago that I went under surgery. So everything considered I guess that I am making awesome progress, I riding my bicycle and going to the pool and swimming, running inside the water, watching movies...ups that had nothing to do with it. I would like the pain in my abductor to go away, because that would make it a lot easier to walk up the stairs etc. But everything in its own time, at least I a living an almost normal life!

足の調子っていうか、具合っていうのか？最近この一週間はあまり変わりがなかったようなきがしましたが！昨日はプールの中で走っていました！本当に気持ち良かったです、１５分間を歩いた後に１５０ｃｍの深さで１０分をその場で走りました。しかし、ぷーるからあがると、まだ足が不安定な部分があります。横に開く、むしろ横に持ち上げる筋肉はずっとなかったですけど、昨日から急に少し上がるようになった！あせっているって訳じゃないけど、横開きの筋肉は本当に一番大変でした。実際に切ったところの周りですのでとうぜん痛みやストレスはあるはずですけど、ほかのところと比べ治りが全然遅かったです。？遅いというか？昨日で３週間でした。。。それにしてはかなり早いペースではないか？今日もリハビリと仕事がんばります！