Walkies

And I am walking up and down outside without my 'stick

Hairy

Well now I have had my mohawk cut, trimmed, but my unshaved bit is now longer than my hair.

Steamy

This morning, when I went outdoors, it was actually steamy when I breathed. Good lord, I had forgotten that this happens, it was 7½ years, at least, since I saw it last

Sigh

Well, up at 7.30 today, a lie in!!! "Dan, Dan, The Hair-cutting Man" sez he will come and do mine about 11 o'clock, he hasn't forgotten

Geetar

Well I tried to play my geetar today. It was still way too hard but it was easier than before

Exercise

So here I am sitting down trying to stretch my right leg. ATM it won't go as far back as my left leg so I have been trying to make it stretch more but it flipping hurts to do so but as I insist on getting better........

Early - again

So this morning I woke up at 7.00AM and needed a pee. So I got up and did that then I thought "Oh, I can go back to bed and lie there awake or get up" so I got up very early again

Sam

And my son Sam came over to see me today as he is leaving in a few days to travel back to university in Manchester

Stickless

So today I was sitting outside, every 10 or 15 minutes I would get up and walk without my stick up and down outside my flat

Sigh

Well I woke up and got up at 7 this morning.....

Beauty

Then this afternoon my daughter came to visit me. Which was special.

Perhaps

So after I am walking so much with no stick I thought perhaps an emergency only stick would be useful. Dunno, I will have to wait and see when it arrives

Bleedin' flip

So I got up this morning at about 8 o'clock, went into the kitchen and made breakfast etc, no problem. When I finished my first mouthful of breakfast suddenly I really needed a pooh. It was strange and sudden (shrug) so I had to go to the loo before I drank my coffee

Out tonight

And a member of staff said "Are you going to Headway tonight?", I said "Is it tonight?" and tried to say that taxi's are much too dear but she said "Person from here want's to go and he has a car, wanna lift?" so I shall go in pair tonight

Good lord, it was a bit strange but it was good being out, and I think Anthony is gonna want a lift every month (even tho he can't talk) so I will be able to blag a lift

And someone said to me "Where's your 'chair?" but I walked tonight, and good lord, we parked across the road, half way up a car park, bleedin' miles but I walked

Shopping

And I managed to do my shopping, got it all, remembered juice this week, still didn't need a pee when I came back so obviously summat is better

Early

I woke up hours ago, and in the end got up ¾ of an hour before my alarm clock went off.

National Botanic

And this afternoon I had another visit to the National Botanic Garden which is right over near where we used to live, and god it's impressive, like really. I have been there before (not before my accident) but I think last time I was there with my parents whereas today was just a relaxing visit but WOW

And I went without my wheelchair today. I walked in, queued for ages, eventually we went in, then I got one of their wheelchairs to borrow

Washing

After I got up s'morning I (it's still a novelty) I changed my bed, washing machine is going as we speak and my new quilt cover looks very posh. That is only the 3rd time IIRC that I have been able to do it myself

Fixed it

And at last summat occurred to me and I was able to make the link to Blog be down from the text above rather than being a long way down. "(BR)"

.... Have Seen The Glory Of The Coming....

Good lord, my eyes are nearly in line. So if I take off my patch and look straight forward if I tilt my head a bit forwards then I see it properly with no distortion. If I change the angle or look to one side then it gets very confusing and I need to close my right eye and just see from the left. But PROGRESS

Knackered

Gosh, after that walking today I feel absolutely exhausted

And it is now late enough to be worth going to bed, I can now not need to be up at about 5 AM

Good lord

Well today we went out to play, we explored Kidwelly Quay, Burry Port etc. It was excellent

And I walked further today on an uneven surface, I think it was the most I have managed in 8 years

God

Well today we had a meeting about me. And how well I am doing, it turned out. And the man who is making my claim was there, he said I might heve my court case winnings by December, wait and see

Visiting

And 3 people who are here tomorrow visited me this afternoon

Kidwelly

And this evening we found the house that I lived in when I had the accident, but I have no memory of living here at all

Well

So here I am waiting for my Father and Big Sister to arrive tonight for my assessment tomorrow

And

Erm.... I am starting setting up another private blog, which is excellent but I can't figure out how to let any members view

Freya

That Freya came to see me, eventually, today and it was occasionally how it should be again. Like proper father and his 13 yo daughter talking

HELP Bloggers

I want to export my blog to a new site but I cant see either export or import

Panic over, sorry

Shopping

Went shopping 'smorn, got everything except juice, I forgot that, och well

Wow

Wow but I am getting......... tonight

Blooming....

Sunday, Blooming Sunday

Tea

And today for the first time in...... at least 7 years, possibly a whole life, today I have drunk more tea than coffee

And I am having tea with my supper too

Ahhh

Resting on a Saturday...

Shower

And today I will have to taker the shower I was supposed to take yesterday but I was busy seeing Freya

Phew

I did in the end

Flutter-byes

See these f**king butterflies that are flying about ATM. Flying too fast to enable photoing, sitting still until your camera is half way to your eye...

Visitor

And today I had that Freya come to see me. We had words but both apologised....

Daughter

That Freya phoned me and said "Sorry you didn't know we were away" as she had been told to tell me that the whole family were going on holiday this week. So after that I will have to look forward to her coming tomorrow instead

So we may try making some Lasagne

Private

If anyone want's a private offlist chat about what's going on for me please feel free to drop me a line.... at hippyweb

Well I went to see today

A Dr in Swansea about my eyesight. He did obscure stuff to my right eye, having given me 3 painkillers already, and hopefully summat is different now. We will see in 24-36 hours. Everything looks the same apart from my actual eye which is red. He said we can't look too far ahead but he was a bit confident although it is now a wait and see situation.

"Have you got better yet?"

Flip

Or worse..... but I am doing it to continue getting better

Lunch

And for lunch I had 1 sandwich and a drink. It was filling and enough. That was only half a before my accident lunch, but it was enough. Now

Dear

Well..... now I can have my sandwiches for lunch.

Sorry, "sandwich" - singular

Lord

So here we are back to "normal" again. I slept in today, didn't wake up 'til 10.15, an unusual occurrence

Buzy

I have been so buzy today that I haven't had time to BLOG but..... My parents agreed to stop being in my face because the person canceled, so today I was buzy with them too as they are off tomorrow. BUT my FTP has stopped working so 3 or 4 groups of excellent photos wont go up. So shit.

Still pointless

Luckily my parents went off pretty early then I could write up my BLOG etc but nowt now (weep)

Pointless

So my parents came over to help me with the assessment meeting tomorrow. At 4.55 we were just about to go out for dinner when my Dad's mobile phone rang. It was my brother who is currently doing Dad's role in his business, he had just taken a phone call from the person who was supposed to be here tomorrow saying "Sorry, no meeting tomorrow". At 4.55PM!!! After my parent's had got in a plane, then hired a car, then drove here from the airport,after they have arrived and having a coffee, message from him saying....

(Scream and shout)

(Big style)

Finished

So I went to the PDH today and they said that I was finished there for now. But someone is going to inject my right arm so when he can do that I will be back. And I managed not to say "Missing you already" as I left

Off

I'm off in a bit to the Day Hospital for my physio....

And then come back here, meet with my Dad, then tomorrow we are meeting an assessor. And I think it is a leaving me short of cash assessor

Hectic

It calmed down later but what a lot of issues came up today

Radical

So I went shopping to the shop, my bill was ready, she said "£476.32 (or thereabouts)" so I didn't take my cash out but my Visa Debit Card. Which I can't remember ever spending on shopping but she asked me to pin the code, then said "Ta" and gave me my shopping. Another FREE food incident... In the past I used to write cheques, but now......

Up, off

Got up, had brekky, I am going out to the shop in a bit...

(1) I woke up at 6.15 this morning. I got up at 8.45 today.....

Dear

So I am checking for my dole money but it doesn't seem to be here yet....

Phew, it arrived about half past two

Zappa

Because someone asked me if I had some tonight, I put more Frank Zappa on, an album I remember from 25 years ago and another nearly as good newer one

Read it

And I am getting over my "can't read that it's too much" thing because tonight I managed all of this, all five pages

Oh oh....

And today I said one of my quotes in Welsh, asked them what it meant. They said "This"

Erm...

Saturday..... oh.... erm....

Radical

So I was taken into town earlier for shopping which didn't work in the end "We went shopping, couldn't find any boots in accessible Carmarthen shop, as I was on foot, no wheelchair involved, went online and bought some"

So no wheelchair went to town in a lift. Much too scary

"It was easy to spend that much cash if it's only virtual"

PDH

So first of all I went to the Priory Day Hospital for my morning session. As I had an appointment elsewhere in the West Wales General Hospital, at the Surgical Appliances Department, and they told me to buy boots and take the right one in next week

Which I did. We went shopping, couldn't find any boots in accessible Carmarthen shop, as I was on foot, no wheelchair involved, went online and bought some. It was easy to spend that much cash if it's only virtual

Not just me

So it's not just me whose a bit panicky about the new technology

Further recollection

I recall

Did you miss me?

Well today I am trying to not say stuff just because I can, but only when I have summat to add. So Have You Missed Me?

Billy

And I just started properly a book by a new author and it is so impressive

RHS

Today I was out. When I came back I set off going up the hill in my chair as usual. Today I made it to the top going straight forward because my right hand joined in

PDH

And I went to Priory Day Hospital, it was strange but I did in. Back on Friday, in my wheel-chair because afterwards I have an appointment at the Surgical Appliances Department

And it was strange being back here, having finished, and finished lunch, and got back here already, by 12.25

Bikkies

And amongst my "looking for stuff" today I looked in a box. Good lord, biscuits..... mmmmm

Visitor

And my visitor arrived this afternoon, but she is bored, what shall we do?

And we ate a delicious curry that I made for tonight, mmmm

Book

And I finished book 3 since my accident, Hitchhiker's Guide Part 3

Walkies

And I am walking everywhere today....

Stopped now when Freya arrived as I am cooking etc

But now I will remain in my wheelchair have breakfast etc as then at 10.00AM my taxi is taking me way, without my 'chair

GUDL

Well I got up s'morning", walked into the kitchen, "had brekky"....... and was at home anyway.

GUDS

Well I got up s'morning, had brekky, went to the shop, did my weeks shopping and came home

Still walking

I made my lunch etc from my feet, went to the loo again with no stick

3.45PM, still walkies

So it's 4PM now and I am sitting in my wheelchair. Dunno why, it just felt better

Lie in

So I didn't wake up and get up until 8.15 s'morning. Decadent, an outrageous lie in.

My foot seems to be working again, I got up and walked into the kitchen no problem.

Then when I finished my breakfast I stood up to walk over here to the 'puter chair, which I did, I walked over here and sat down with my 'stick not touching the ground!!

And later I walked out of the kitchen pushing my tray thingy as far as the table then I walked to the bathroom without my stick, went to the loo, and walked back still without 'stick

Much happier

And my ex~ingrown toenail is so much better, I don't think I realized how shit it was feeling all the time. Even tho I haven't been walking today it is so much groovier, lets wait and see if I am walking tomorrow...

Fixer

And Sam came over to see me to try and mend my PC today. Strangely enough he wasn't able to fix Office 2007 but instead reinstalled Office 200 on a CD I provided, which I hadn't realized the difference but..... And he is gonna send me a copy of 2007 when he's back in Manchester in 10 days

Sitties

I am sitting in my wheelchair today as when I tried to walk this morning my right knee felt "Owww". So we will have to see how it is tomorrow

Made

And this morning for only the second time since my accident I was able to change my bed without any help

ETR

Early to bed,
early to rise,
makes a man,
healthy wealthy and wise

Sossijes

For dinner tonight I thought I have cooked etc for a couple of nights so I will just have oven chips and veggie sausages. So I cooked it all, got a knife and fork out, and went and sat down with it. So I looked at the sausages, I thought now I usually just cut it with my the side of my fork, turn my fork over and eat it.... BUT tonight I am gonna try it with my knife and fork. So I stuck the fork in with my left hand and approached it with my knife that was held in my right hand. It was difficult but I managed. The first meal that I have eaten all of with my right hand in 7¼ years

Drink driver

At the Day Hospital today there was a new chap, he is much worse off than me, pretty much unstable even sitting in his wheelchair. Anyway after lunch I asked him what disease he had had, or what accident. He was out walking one night when a drunk driver hit him. The f*c*er has killed himself instead of going to court but this poor bugger is still alive, just

Ingrown

And after my exercises a person asked me to accompany him as he was going to sort out my ingrown toenail. I nearly panicked but just about managed. First of all he looked at my left big toe, the one that was removed in an operation ages ago and is coming back but all over the place. Firstly he attacked it with a knife then some scissors and it now looks like a short proper toenail. Then he looked at my right big toe, the ingrown one. He cut and chopped and cut a lot more. It now is a lot shorter and a lot better shaped, the sh*t bits have gone away. You can see in the pic how much he had to remove from the LHS of my toenail. And it nearly didn't hurt, when it did I didn't have to complain, it was only a little

Up

7.00AM...... so in 3 hours I am off to the Day Hospital

AND gosh it went well. My usual teacher is on holiday this week so I had to leave a message about how I was crying.... The stuff that I do seems to be getting easier every week and the stuff with her moving my right hand still hurts

Print

And tonight I tried to print 2 pictures on 1 piece of paper and noticed the bit on the print dialogue which says "Print 1, print 2, print 4, print loads" and can do it now. I think in the past I had been opening pictures in Irfanview then printing rather than clicking "Print" which is why this choosing size of the print is news to me, but I now know how to do it

Properly

Today I was slicing some bread to have at lunchtime. For the first time since my accident I held the bread knife in my right hand and cut it.
(It it not a very clear photo but you can see the knife blade and my left hand holding the bread)

Lock Workers (again)

And two lock workers came and REfixed the lock on my door, possibly it's properly fixed now so the other electrical fixer will come out and do more in a couple of days.

But I am a lot more confident about having to lock it from the outside while standing up while getting into my taxi tomorrow

Walkies

So last night I went to bed about midnight with a book to read. After half a chapter I fell asleep. After such a going to sleep night I woke up this morning at 7.30

AND I am still walking everywhere, it is now 2.30

And I am still walking everywhere, it is now nearly 6pm, I have had my dinner, washed up etc all on my feet

BUT I have just noticed that my sink is higher than it used to be, they must have moved it up when they were fixing my leak, but as I am no longer sitting down every time I am there I didn't notice it

Nearly eight now, still walking...

And it is 9.30PM now and I am still walking, at a guess I will continue until I go to bed...

And I am about to go to bed, I will have to walk past my wheelchair that I haven't used at all today

Not Walkies

So today after I came back from Physio I have been wheelchairing, tomorrow is gonna be different, I will get up and walk into the kitchen...

Curry

And I thought this afternoon "What kind of veggieburgers shall I have with my oven chips tonight?". After thinking about this for about 3 minutes I decided "No" and made curry instead, I dunno what it tastes like yet but it looks good ATM

AND it is delicious

Off

And this morning I am off to Priory Day Hospital for the first time in a week as last Friday I had an assessment here instead

AND I woke up and got up at the scrake of day this morning...

So I turned up at the Day Hospital today, it went as well as can be expected, yes it hurt etc. Then the lady came to take me home. I thought "Shall I have a piss or just go home then have one?". We came half way home then her SatNavc wouldn't find it any more and as we came here a different way than usual I didn't know where we were either. So we stopped while she typed into her SatNav. 3 times. When I was nearly wetting myself. In the end she phoned someone for directions, got here, dropped me off and I wished I could run but just walked quickly into the loo

And today was the first time in 7 years where I was able to climb the steps into a van

Wheely

And this morning I am not walking as in a bit I will be off to my Physio Class without my wheelchair

Fixers

And 2 chaps came, did loadsa work on my lock and went off. Then I tried it and my lock wouldn't lock, so they had to come back and undo all their work

Lunch

Today, for lunch, I had the first can of soup that I have eaten for many years. And it was lovely

Freya

And Freya just phoned me (as she has got up) and said that she is back from Dance Camp and had an excellent time and she is coming over to see me later today

And she did, but tomorrow she is going to be a teenager!! I gave her her pressie which she opened a day early as she wanted to do it with me

G.Morning

Well early this morning the man came to the door with my delivery of my missing HHGTTG volume which I am a bit pleased about

Out

So I went out to a meeting of Brain Injured folk at Mind in Carmarthen tonight. It was a bit..... dunno, can't decide whether to go to next months meeting or not.

But I had never heard the term Brain Injured before and there was a whole meeting of them tonight, folk who don't live here

Tomorrow

Gosh today is too exciting but I just received an email from Julia to tell me that that beautiful Freya girl is coming to see me tomorrow afternoon

Walking

And I finished walking at about 3.15 this afternoon as I am cooking then going out to Headway later

Water

First of all I was in the kitchen cleaning up my mess from the spilt coffee(1) when I turned the tap on for some water. I thought "What's that noise?" looked down and saw a puddle getting bigger under my sink, the pipe had come out which I did need help with

(1) When I first spilt it I thought "Oh, help" but then I got stuck in and cleaned it up by myself. Until the next crisis

Up and down again

So I went out and walked up and downhill again, like I did when I took these photos last week, and... dunno, I am not sure but I think it is getting a bit easier

Troubles ahead

Dunno, this morning is..... p'raps I have not had enuf sleep < shrug >

But I am thinking.... sometimes when I stand up my right foot is stuck, I used to have to sit back down and move it but it seems that I can just do it now without panicing or falling over