Your article is so timely.

Erika Burkhalter

Nov 25, 2018·1 min read

Your article is so timely. After suffering for years, I had bilateral hip-replacement last week. Before my surgery, I wrote a poem to my hips (part of the mourning process). You might enjoy it: https://medium.com/the-story-hall/ode-to-my-hips-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-a3d656cf4592

Erika Burkhalter

Photographer, yogi, cat-mom, lover of travel and nature, spreading amazement for Mother Earth, one photo, poem or story at a time. (MA Yoga, MS Neuropsychology)

…igorously hiked and skied small mountains. Such is the grief work of living with debilitating pain. We must psychologically accept our new lives and mourn our former lost selves, much as we would mourn a friend or relative who has died. For it is only by going through the steps — the anger, sadness, rage, grief, hopelessness, and even despair — and acknowledging each one that we can get to the other side.

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