Iechyd Da

And we are off in a bit to pick up Freya and then we are going to Iechyd Da for their monthly folk night

And it was as excellent as it was last month

And I sat in a different seat than usual because when I walked in Ruth and her tribe were sat downstairs so I joined them. Which I couldn't have managed a few months ago but last night I only pissed after we had left Iechyd Da

They're Here

So today my parents and big brother are in Bristol having a meeting with my barrister and hopefully saying "He deserves loads" etc then tomorrow they are driving a hired car to here where various combinations of them will stay here Friday and Saturday night

And I just spoke to them, they were being really positive about the barrister so hopefully.....

Proper Healthy Eating

So tonight I made our dinner with one of the products I have been a bit paranoid about but from the fridge, prepared mashed spuds was on our plates. For the first 3 mouthfuls I thought "Not as nice as chips" but by mouthful 4 I realised how lovely it was, and how healthy etc etc

Sigh

So it's off to gym in a bit......

And we need to buy some "stuff" for when my folks are here, eg coffee etc, so we will be in't superdoopermarket again

Double sigh, I have had enough of going to gym but I am still getting better so I'd better be quiet

After gym we first of all headed to Aardvark to stock up on coffee and milk before nipping to super-dooper-market but we bought everything we were looking for there, including floor cleaner and antibiotic hand wash. The only thing they didn't have was white loaf with long enuf date on it but we found one of those on the market stall outside so we didn't need to go to a supermarket at all

Shopping

Then we went to the usual supermarket today in search of some carbohydrate that was a) less fattening than oven chips and b) as easy to cook. and in the end we found loads in the fridge section.

Jones Bach

So Sarah Jones the OT came to see me s'morning and we talked about loadsa stuff, 'Neil needs to get a life' etc, how and why

Pudding Tonight

And after my scrambled eggs and beans and chips dinner I had a pudding. I went to the freezer, opened the new packet of cornettos and had one.

Gosh but it was very delicious. I am very tempted to have another pudd....... supper but as I am on a diet I'd better not

Jeroo

And we are off to gym in a bit...

And off we went.

This time I changed my boots in the car park and went in on my wheelchair and didn't sit in it again until the session was over and I had been all over the gym, on my own two feet

WTF?

And today as I was exploring the interweb I realised that driverless trucks exist and are safe and.........

I can now, some

And today I proved that I can cut bread rolls with my right hand. OK, it's a relatively simple task but the fact that I can do anything with my right hand is an improvement

More Reasons To Shop At...

.... Morrisons (noisy - video) today. We will go and do my weekly shop there today

Which we did, bought the usual amount and a pressie and 8 ice cream cones. Dieting isn't.....

Early to bed.....

As I was tired today after not napping in the day I went to bed about a quarter to 11, about an hour and a half earlier than usual

Opening A Bottle

I tried to open the litre and a half of organic apple juice and as usual I couldn't. So as usual I looked for my MOS to ask for help but he had nipped out to the loo. I tried again, no avail, then I tried gripping the lid between my teeth. It opened easily and I was still able to close it afterwards.

Hoo-flipping-ray

Sport

And we are going to the Pub up the street s'afternoon to watch the Wales v Italy rugby match

So we nipped to the pub at the end of the street to watch the rugby. Wales won and then we talked about whether I needed a nap etc and stayed to watch England flipping win too, but only just in their case

While I was there I got a freebie

3D cinema

After I posted a link on my website re: a film that I wanna see, Timmy was researching times of showing etc and it is only showing in 3D. Arse, wait 'til a DVD is available

Dull Friday

And I did nowt today, I refused to go swimming.

Later we nipped out to Aardvark and spent loadsa cash again and bought some extra organic veggie burgers

Brief Visit

Then we nipped to a school and picked up Freya. She was on a deadline tonight, going to see someone in a play so we got here, turned the oven on, cooked, ate food then took her straight away.

After we came back Timmy had to wash up

And Freya has agreed to come back and see me in a more relaxed fashion on Sunday

New Tyres

Then after Timmy phoned and asked permission we had to take the car into Kwikfit and have 2 new tryes fitted to the front. They said "That size we only have expensive tyres, we will have to phone and ask permission to fit them" and did.

They said it would take an hour so we nipped next door and had a cuppa and a lovely bun

Little Old Lady

So s'morning Sarah Bailey, the speech and language therapist came to see me. She listened to my throat as I was drinking a cuppa etc. She did say that the doctor hasn't got back to us about the appointment to have my swallowing assessed so she will have to phone him again!

Habits of a lifetime

So after my bath today I was getting dresses. Talk about changing the habits of a lifetime? Today I...... I didn't put my pants on first. Radical, habits of a lifetime etc

(sent from my phone)

Jim-jim-jeroo

And I had a good session at the gym today. Paul who hasn't been there for a few weeks took me today and he was commenting on how straight up my back is, not leaning over so much.

I think todays lesson was don't drink quite so much the night before a gym session, I had loads last night

The Sea

So as the rest of the day was empty me and Dicky went out exploring, looking for the sea. We ended up at Burryport, and I was pushed along the harbour, it was well cool

Poorly Kids

And the member of staff who was supposed to be coming to see me today, Sarah the OT, emailed me first thing and said "My kid is poorly, can I come next week instead?"

Out&About

So we went out to a pub in Carmarthen tonight. It was nice if a bit quiet. We went to The Drovers Arms in Carmarthen

Jiminy

Sigh. So I am back off to gym in a bit

And it fills me with such joy every time I go but I got stuck in again. More "other clients" were commenting on how much better I seem, which was nice, and today again I parked my 'chair at one side and walked to everywhere else in't gym

Cabbage and Potatoes

Well today, for the first time in nearly 10 years I used my couple of day old grill pan to make some Cheese On Toast for lunch and it was delicious

Shopping

So today, after my cheese on toast for lunch we are nipping to More Reasons To Shop... (noisy) to get my weeks shopping

Then we are coming back for my too early haircut as Ed is Going Away To Start His Training for 4 weeks next week and he won't be commuting here just to cut my hair in a couple of weeks

Dullness

I have had such an exciting Saturday......

Mistletoe and Wine

And for dinner tonight we had the now usual Friday dinner of naan-bread pizza's.

And it was yum

Aardvarking

Then we nipped out to Aardvark to do the weeks shopping, I was a bit more stuck in my wheelchair as I felt so exhausted after s'morning but I did walk some

Clarkin' Bell

This afternoon SmallPaul told me that his neice had sold her story to the BBC and was a)in their TOTP mag and was b) gonna be in a TV program about her. Basically she is 14 now and 7 years ago caught from god knows where a swelling of the brain and while she has pretty much got better she now suffers from "face blindness" so she can't recognise people, even her Mum, it's only when she speaks that she knows who she is. She is working with some charity, perhaps this one, and the payment from the BBC will go to them, helping sufferers

Teatowel

So we went up and down the aisles in Tesco looking to no avail. So we went to the desk and said "My right hand doesn't work so I take a pot out of the oven, try to lift the goods with my left hand, but I need some way of keeping the pan still". She said "Ah, follow me" went out to where we had been looking but couldn't find 'it' whatever she had been looking for. She saw another member of staff and said "Where is the...". The other member of staff said "Put on the side a tea towel COVERED IN WATER and your pot won't move". I thanked her for saving money and knowing that

(sent from my phone)

Physio-ing

So Sara with no H, the physio came to see me. First of all she booked an appointment for me to have my Bioness appointment which hopefully will be the day they fit me with extra electrical stimulation so that hopefully I will eventually be able to ditch my wheelchair. Hopefully.

Then she acupunctured me in my now nearly healed fully left arm.

THEN we went for a walk up and down the street with no wheelchair

I think I am much to nervous to head out without my 'chair but I managed it today

But gord I feel knackered now, soon to nap

Dinner-ing

And we had a veggie lasagne and oven chips for tea tonight and it was lovely. But I baked it, lifted it out of the oven and Ed had to portion it and lift it. I could lift it with one hand but not keep the tray still with the other.

I will have to ask Denyse if there is summat available to hold the dishes while I lift the food out of them

Thinnest

And as they measure my leg twice a day to check if it is getting much bigger thru infections, they measured it s'afternoon and it was the narrowest it has been since they started this measuring

Dentist

And I had an appointment with the dental hygenist s'afternoon and she was quite impressed with how clean my teeth and gums look, she said there were no "crisis bits" this visit

Sarah Bailey

And I am awaiting a therapist who is coming to see me s'morning . Her name is Sarah Bailey and every time I think that I think "Sarah Bailey, little old lady".

Sorry, she isn't but I think this anyway

Still waiting, she is ¾ of an hour late....

Double Sigh. She had changed this to a next week appointment last week, I had the new appt in my diary but still with the old one too

Network Crisis

And I nipped to bed for my nap today, I thought "Oh, I'll listen to that podcast", turned on my back bedroom laptop, clicked "Connect" and it said "No, connection dead". I panicked but when I came out of there I had to press "Reset" on the router and it all works again

Jiminy

The only "going out" thing on my diary for today was gym. We went along and it is shocking to me how much better I am now than I was 6 months ago

Dinner

And Ed brought in some "make pancakes" stuff which we had for a dinner that he made tonight. It was rather lovely but I couldn't remember what I used to like on my pancakes

Honey, sugar and lemon, according to Julia.

And blackcurrant jam! Apparently

It's too dangerous

Having seen Stu on his motorised bicycle and talked a bit about my accident all I can say is it's much too dangerous

Visitor

Then just as I was gonna go to the kitchen and make lunch there was a really big noise outside and that Stuart chap appeared on his motorbike. He is now one of my neighbours

Emptying The Garage

So I asked Ed if he could help me load up the car with old cardboard boxes from the garage and take them to t'tip but he said "No, I will take them there on my way home tomorrow"

Grill Pan

And Amazon txted me s'morning and said "Your delivery will be here between xxx and yyy" which it was and now I have a grill pan in my cooker.

Cheese on toast is calling me...

Yesterday

And we had very little on s'afternoon as we went shopping yesterday.

Just 15 minute windows of various therapys etc

Jeroo

So as we did my weekly shop yesterday I have nowt to do but go too gym s'morning

Hoo-flippin'-ray

Gosh, I am getting noticeably better at gym

Program

And I am watching the second episode in this, and rather enjoying it.

I watched the first episode last night

Rugby

Ooooh, England v Ireland now......

Oh dear, the English won...

More Reason's To Shop At....

And I went and did my weekly shop at Morrisons on the new day for once a week, I now do my shopping on a Sunday as Monday has got a bit busy what with gym etc etc etc

Wonders Of Life

I saw summat that was talking about an ex-Boy Band member, Professor Brian Cox, who is now a science teacher and a TV presenter, presenter of science programs.

I am watching one of his programs and rather enjoying it

Wales Are The Greatest

Watched the rugby today :)

And I watched the first third of the scotland match, then went for my daily nap, the score was in their favour too

Memory Coming Back

And today for no apparent reason I said a poem which did give me great pleasure, remembering stuff from the past

Out&About

Then we nipped up to our local late last night and got talking to (I think it was...) Veronica and her chap from no 40 or so. We talked for ages about loadsa stuff, it was well worth it

Davising

Then immediately afterwards Sara Davis, the physio, came. At first we were talking about how my walking has changed as we tried on my new splint today then we nipped out walking without my wheelchair. I walked up the street a long way, down and back up the kerb then back again without my wheelchair to rest in. Later we were talking about electrical stimulation and she is going to enquire again in Cardiff tio see iof they will do me now

And I had to ask her her surname too...

Jones Bach

And Sarah the OT came to see me first and I had to ask her second name, it was Jones, she is from England but married a welshman, hence the well Welsh name. We talked about Mindfulmess which was well good, we downloaded an mp3 to play, played it to all of us and I just feel wow

Fredumpkins

Then we went and got that Freya girly, fed her with the only chips we are having this week (as I have learned about cooking sauces and stir fry) then took her home

It was OK, she felt like "My daughter"

'Wimming

Then as "someone" had said to me that I will be so busy tomorrow me and Dicky went swimming today instead. So for the second time since my accident I was able to walk down the steps to get in, do some exercises etc then walk back out.

I now think of the hoist as a cripple lifter

Psychobabbling

So first thing s'morning Claire WILSON the psycholigist came to see me. We talked about how I react to stuff etc. She did say that my voice is much clearer than it was when we first met

Power Cut

And I was sitting at my PC about 7 o'clock when suddenly the lights went off, the streetlights outside went dark, the music stopped, the PC died. So I fumbled about in the drawer, found my torch when suddenly the power came back

Shopping

Then me and Ed popped to the shop, we bought more salad and 2 lots of stir fry veg and 2 lots of cook in sauce, 1 curry (again) and 1 to eat with pasta. Because I was crying "But I want oven chips too" I also bought tomorrow night's dinner, onion bhajis and some other foreign eat hot or cold food to have with OCs

Jim Jiminy Jim Jim Jaroo

And we (me and Ed) are off to the gym (noisy video) in a bit, hope it's more exciting than usual...... OK, it is doing me loads of good but it isn't very much fun

And it was as much fun as usual but I did what asked, and I was able to cycle for 10 mins today, it wasn't as busy

Proper Wine

And tonight I am on the proper wine and while delicious it seems to head down my throat a lot slower than that weak stuff I had last week

Feed Me

So me and Tim nipped into the super(dooper)market this afternoon and bought 2 cooking sauces and stir fry veg and various bits so I will be able to actually cook from scratch 2 meals, for about a fiver. It would have cost a bit more if I had to buy rice etc but I already have that.

So tonight we are having curry and tomorrow chilli

And wasn't tonight's curry delicious, it was "extra hot" vindaloo which made me smile, just right

But the second night without oven chips, I am beginning to get withdrawls

Wine

And tonight I had 4 glasses and finished the box of really weak wine that I had. I opened the "proper" wine then and got more pissed feeling off 1 glass

(sent from my phone)

Shop

On the way back from Gym we called into Morrison's so Ed could buy some lunch and while we were there I asked Ed what other ingredients they sold there that could turn a stir fry into a meal, not just a "Stir Fry". And they have loadsa goods on Aisle 1 to turn it into curry or pasta sauce. We didn't buy any today but I think tomorrow I will take SlimTimmy and have an explore. Buy a couple of ingredients and a couple of stir fries which have a best b4 of 3 or 4 days usually

It sounds like I am being mean and not cooking for Ed but we had a delicious meal last night, "proper" cooking

Jiminy

And we are off to Gym in a bit

And it went quite well. Although it was too busy in the cycling room for me to go thru, I had to stay in the classrom and get stuck in. But at one point I was doing 'step forward' exercises, I expected the one 'step forward with your right leg' to be hardest but that was OK, relatively easy. However when I stepped forward with my left leg I could feel my right leg trying to turn over onto it's side

Chap and Dog

Well I watched a program tonight that I used to read in a comic when I was littler

Busy Morning

So first thing me and Ed went shopping. First of all we nipped into Wilkinson and got an oven glove for £4.50 less than the one we looked at in Tesco last night and more comfortable etc so hopefully it will be more effective.

And it is, it works well

 
Then we went to Matalan and couldn't find any padded shirts (to replace the one I had to throw away s'morning) but instead I bought a posh (but black) kind of "keep yourself warm" top for £6 less than it is advertised here.

THEN we came back here and after lunch I asked Ed to cut my hair again.

Then I looked on Amazon and bought myself a padded shirt thingy which helps my "do not be fashionable" way of life

Pissing

Sorry.

I just went for a piss on my way to bed and as I stood there doing it it occured to me how much I have changed my habits, matured. 3 months ago I sat down on the loo every time I needed it, now I only sit down for poohs, I can stand up and control where my wee goes.

There you go, HTH or whatever

Shopping

So today we went shopping as tomorrow Ed will be cutting my hair and the shop closes earlier, and on Monday I will be at the gym.

Roof

Then this afternoon Ruth and Athan, her 9 y.o. son, came over to see me. We talked about me visiting her more.....

They Are Stuck Here

It occured to me s'morning, and confirmed by Dicky, that if eg Paul was on his way over here and eg crashed his car that Dicky wouldn't be able to leave me to go back to his wife and kids until another replacement made it here

Aardvarking

So then we went to Aardvark, I bought ecover washing up liquid and noted that they sell ecover "washing powder" liquid too(1). I stayed in wheelchair thru the first bit of the shop, where it widened I parked, stood up, and shopped for owt else, up the slope with no handrail into the back of the shop and bought more from there. Sat down and paid for it all

(1) The week after I bought 2 new boxes of Persil

Busyness

Then when Sarah was bringing me back home here we caught the end of a locksmith from the police who had fitted a lockable key safe outside my front door.

THEN we get a text from other SaraNO-H who was supposed to be here afterwards but she said "Sorry, too busy, see you next week instead"

SaraH

So Sarah came round s'morning and took my to the library where we had a look at their "What's happening in Carmarthen" booklet and saw that it is really cheap to rent DVD's for a week etc