Last week I started putting together a "the year in photos" blog post as I usually do in late December, and as I looked back over my photos it was clear that my replaced right knee had dominated the year. I took fewer photos in 2025 than I

This week hasn't gone as planned. Well, Monday went as planned – Nancy and I took the spectacular hike up to Highland Lookout – but that evening things started heading in an unexpected direction that led to me posting this from Saint James Hospital five days later. This post is

Today was a long-awaited milestone for my new knee: the 6-week follow-up with my surgeon. This post is an update on how that went, and a few thoughts on how things are going and what I've learned along the way. 0:00 /0:06 1× How it'

Well, it's another knee surgery blog post. In my defense, a lot has happened the last few days, pretty much all of it good, so it feels like time for an update. And I have some friends and family who don't use social media, so this

There was something about the way Isaac's hair glistened while he was chewing a bone Sunday morning that reminded me of Kris Kristofferson's song "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down." I guess I'm easily reminded of whiskey these days because I'

I had my third joint replacement today: my right knee is now a sturdy mechanical hinge like the one shown above, installed by the same talented surgeon who handled both of my hip joint replacements nine years ago, Dr. James Bruckner of Proliance Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine. Huge thanks to

My right knee has been a problem for a long time. When I was 19 years old, I fell off a scaffold at a construction project on the Yakama Indian Reservation and tore it up good, resulting in a complicated surgery at the old Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital that left

Twelve weeks ago, I had a total hip replacement on my right side. In a blog post [https://www.dougmahugh.com/new-hips-for-next-summer/] a few days after surgery, I wrote “I’m only a week into this adventure, and I also have another hip to do in a few months, so

In 2014, I walked more miles than I’ve ever walked in a year. Megan and I had been taking frequent long walks and hikes with the dogs in recent years, but we really kicked it up a notch when we started preparing for a trekking vacation in Dartmoor National