PC Crisis

So I had a PC crisis just in time for Timmy to arrive today. Basically he reinstalled Google Chrome interweb browser and McAfee anti-virus. He deleted it first then reinstalled it and generally the PC is behaving a bit better now, I can click without an ad opening etc

And it does seem better tonight, we downloaded another "clean it up" program and it seems to have helped

Biscuits/Cake

So I really wanted some biscuits or an enormous cake s'morning so I went to the kitchen and got a banananana instead.

It was nice but it wasn't chocolate cake

Rugger Buggers

So we watched the rugby this afternoon. For about 70 minutes England were well in charge, 25-0 IIRC. Then Wales got into stride, and in the end England won by 25-21 points

So near in the end.....

More Reasons To Shop At...

So GGTGG is working today, earlier he said "Morrison's today?" I said Naah then remembered that it is Timmy working tomorrow and he really doesn't like Morrison's so I said "Actually..." and nipped to Morrison's and bought the half dozen things I need

Friday Dinner

And as Timmy was here not eating my food after I shopped yeaterday I got to make a traditional Friday dinner on Friday and we had na'an bread pizzas and chips for tea tonight. I don't care how many weeks I make this, it is fscking delicious, lovely

Friday Morning Gym

So I went to my weekly class @ gym today. It was as strange as ever, possibly more so. If I am careful to keep my right knee bent slightly it doesn't hurt at all.....

Memoire

So I think my memory is improving. So I have got my inhaler chart to mark down when I have taken some, but I have noticed that my memory is correct every time I take it out, I can tell you whether or not I have had my inhaler eg tonight

Surprise Timmy

Oops, Timmy was a bit puzzled at the sight of me beginning to put my FES on tonight. "Ah" he said "Aardvark!"

And there is was at about 6pm when we arrived tonight, everything was ready and waiting...

Biking

So we headed over to gym today with a prepared drink of water because I was cycling long distance today. It took me 55 minutes to do my 10km, it used to take me over an hour

Hooray Again

And we are having an early lunch today then later heading off to an Aqua Aerobics session at t'gym so......

And it was as much fun as... But this week she had a load of different exercises for us to do - very strange but acceptable 

Dinner Tonight

So as I am cooking some form of "spaghetti bollock knees" for dinner tonight I got stuck into peeling the veg just after lunch. I will leave it in a pot of cold water while I have my bath/nap then I can get stuck into cooking it

Yes, I stood up to chop etc and even I can now smell it a bit....

And it was a bit delicious, RSL and yellow split peas in.....

〈Sigh〉

So I am off to the gym s'morning to do loadsa exercise machines, we have to bring a card full of instructions etc etc......

Double sigh. And we did it. It is getting surprisingly easier to lift heavier weights for the whole 30 lifts etc. 

Grammar

So I posted summat to ixion.org.uk today and I used a word that I knew what it means etc. I think this part of my mind has fully recovered.

The word? Inordinately 

Hoo-fscking-ray

And we are going off swimming today..... not aqua aerobics today (that's Wednesday) but proper swimming.

And I did it, 8 lengths and various exercises. It is easier just generally than it was a month ago but it still fills me with such joy

Aurora

So on the news as I was eating breakfast s'morning they said "the aurora borealis may be visible well south today...." and my immediate thought was "How can I take a picture of that".... Not that I am obsessed but.....

Isn't The Interweb Useful

I came across someone's animation today. Some people have gone to such trouble to make...... WHAT?

Bought Sum Art

And while I was in bed after my bath I sort of bought a piece of art, for less than a tenner.

WTF??

Weight Off

I have just had a bath then weighed myself. Another 3lb lighter this week. At this rate it's about a stone every 4 weeks, that will do nicely

More Reasons To Shop @.....

And we popped over and did the rest of my weeks shopping just before lunchtime. We couldn't find the blue-fscking-berries, they had moved them out onto a big display which we had passed before we were on the "blueberries" stage of shopping

Works

And when I got up s'morning my PC was still working, so much relief

Bottom

And I have just watched the first ever episode of Bottom on my Amazon FreeTV Stick.

It wasn't bad

And it worked

And my PC stopped working when we were out last night. I switched it on again about 3.30 today and it all sprang to life.

Dunno who or why but it works again. I have a few emails to catch up on....

That T Place

So we nipped to Tesco s'morning to pick up sum ink for the staff printer. And while we were there I picked up sum frozen food. Before we went in I said to Alex 'bout pushing my wheelchair behind in case I got too knackered by he said "No" for various reasons.

So I walked in the front door, right the way to the back for the ink then about 2/3 of the way across to the froze food at the other side. Then walked and paid and walked out. It actually surprised me with how far I can walk

Out To Pub

And we headed out later to my local pub and there were actually 7 people in there tonight!!!!

Dinner

And as usual on Friday I made na'an bread pizza and chips for tea.

Just yum yum

Bath

Lordy, I have just had a bath. I use one type of soap for my face and bits, another type for my armpits and a third kind for my chest and back.

3 flippin' kinds

It's Friday today....

So I will be off in a bit to my once a week gym class then later I am cooking na'an bread pizza and chips which is one of the highlights of my week....

So we went off to gym. Again without my wheelchair. So I did what Sam told me for an hour (and wanted to sing loads of the love songs on the tape to Sam)*. Then I got stuck and cycled 2km in 10 minutes

* And did try it a few times, but there were too many other folk listening....

Telly

And I actually tried and succeeded to watch summat on my new Fire TV box. I am a bit ashamed to say that after 2 mins browsing I came across a Faulty Towers episode which I did rather enjoy

Aardvarking

So we nipped out to Aardvark s'evening and Timmy thinks I spent far too much on...... 'Tis done

Mega Cycle

So me and Timmy went to gym s'morning for a mega cycle. After a third of the distance I paused for too long trying to sort out my headphones and it stopped. So Timmy took the key over signed me out and in again. I did another third of a cycle and got fed up and left.

We did realise that as GGtGG had put the FES on the back of my knees without enuf springyness that was why it was hurting my knee, so Timmy will try a replacement later

Garlic

And I had to reheat some frozen stuff for dinner tonight so I went for some cheese garlic circular thingies, they were very nice, that wasn't the issue but the fact that I could taste the garlic off them, I think I would have said "That's garlicy" if someone else had fed me with these. Now they weren't overwhelmingly strong, but I could still taste them........ dunno why, perhaps my sense of smell/taste is improving....... dunno

My Watch

After I came out of swimming pool I put my watch back on, next time I wanted to know the time it had gone, disappeared. Dunno where, GGtGG has been to look in the car, dunno where it has gone

And 3 or 4 hours later my arse was itchy, I reached behind to scratch and thought "WTF's that?" I could feel summat behind half way down my arse. There was summat that felt odd, I pulled it out of my pants and it was my watch

Early Lunch

So we have an early lunch today (half an hour/an hour before normal lunchtime) to give it a chance to get out of our tummys before a just after lunch time aqua-aerobics class

And it was as much hard work as usual but I did it. The tutor commented on how much better I was being than GGtGG

Stormy

While I was starting my breakfast it was all stormy, wild wind and rain. I finished my muesli and started paying attention again and the wind has almost entirely gone and the rain has gone too

About Fscking Time

I have been trying and failing on and off since breakfast time s'morning, I have just sucked seeds, it's after 9 o'clock at night

Dinner Time

And for dinner tonight we are having 1 portion of curry and 1 portion of bollock-knees. Should I just mix them or use 2 pans to heat it?

No, neither. Alex had brought with him loadsa leftovers from home which he had with a packet of crisps for tea. So I ate one tonight and I will eat t'other in a couple of days when Timmy is here with his own food

Off Out

And after my nap we are heading to Wilko's to look for some (organic) seeds to plant in my new (soon) greenhouse.

While I am there I may as well pick up sum cheap mouthwash & chest washer etc

And we went, got soap goods, went looking, looked all the way along the seeds aisle and the next, no, there were no organic seeds. So we came home, on Ebay, a seller that Alex used last year and purchased 5 bags of organic seed

(sigh) More Exercises (/s)

And before my bath & nap today (same as every-fecking-day) I did my Linda-McCartney-string exercises

Quiet Morning....

Quiet morning....

So we'll head to gym over lunchtime and do my exercises.

And we did do exercises. Gosh, it is still difficult at times but generally so much easier than last month. My fitness and strength are both getting on so well

And Alex took another load of photos of me, that we will add to the "instructions" leaflet

Scary Incident

So coming back from the pool today I left my camera in the glove box of the car, where it had been left while @ pool. Later on I opened the back door, down 2 steps, walked the 3 steps to the car in the rain, got it and came back. I stepped back indoors wiped my feet carefully and wiped the bottom of my walking stick. I took 2 or 3 steps off the rug and suddenly my 'stick, which I was leaning on, dived off to one side, objecting to the pressure and slippery water. I didn't fall over, caught myself and set off more carefully

My balance is so much better these days...

UberBlack

From a post on Ixion from Roger Collier

'Wimming

And we went swimming. Oh what fun we had. I did 2 lengths with nowt on my feet and 4 with flippers. It was much easier

But we did meet an old friend of mine on the way in, Alex. He did comment that last time he saw me I was stuck in a wheelchair. Not walking like today 

Worthy Of....

Harry Potter, apparently

Similar, but different

And an article in The Guardian today got my heart beating. Yes, it is a case different to mine but the similarities made me wanna cry

Better

And Timmy, who hasn't been here since last Wednesday, was putting the cream on my armpits s'morning and said that it is working, it all looks loads better.

Still slightly infected but loads better

My Ass

So most of the time my ass doesn't hurt but eg when I sit down in the car or roll over in bed summat presses and it hurts loads.

Lordy but I had a big injection in there a few days ago

Playing

And I won a game of pool s'evening

Walking About

So we headed into Carmarthen s'afternoon, parked across the road from Aardvark and set off up Blue St then Llamas St then Mansel St. Towards the end I heard a 6 year old boy say to his mum "Why is that man wearing an eyepatch?", I shouted across to him "Because I am a pirate, be scared" but he shouted back "No, you have a walking stick, not a gun". So yes, he saw through me

Mansel St was well uneven, bits up and down I had to really concentrate but I did it

Sunday Morning...

So we nipped to Morissons and did my weekly almost buy no food, buying blueberries, na-an bread and bugger all else.  We also paid on my other card for sum bleach etc for the staff to use

Nurse

And Ed (who is working his second last shift today) told me that he passed all the college stuff (he got a 2:1) and he is now a proper nurse!!

And he announced when he was leaving that he will cook the meal for us on his last day here...

Ouch

And my arse still hurts from that injection yesterday. Not all the time but if I wriggle into a certain position where there is contact between my wound and the outside world then it hurts like flip

Rugger

So we are watching Italy vs Scotland first, to see if Scotland can't loose every game again.

Then l8r today we are catching up with England vs Ireland. Again to see if anyone can catch up with Wales who are top of the table ATM

No, I didn't catch the 2nd match I was having a bath/nap etc. But the wrong team won so I am not very bothered about catching up

Gymming

Then afterwards we drove straight from the chemist to gym and did my weekly class. It was slightly harder work than usual with a throbbing arse but I got stuck in and did it

Jabbing

So we are off to the Docs s'morning to have my 3 monthly testosterone jab and we phoned s'morning and made another appointment half an hour later to see a doc and get new cream for my armpits. The cream we got a month ago hasn't worked

Right. What a morning. So first thing we drove to the Drs and saw a nurse type person who jabbed my arse. Ouch. But she did say that in 3 months when I have the next jab it will be a different juice, hopefully much smaller than she had to inject me with today.

Then we waited at the Drs for about 8 minutes then we were called in to see the doc re my armpit infections. So she had a look and gave me a different cream and some soap stuff just for my 'pits, normal soap for everywhere else and this to wash my pits. AND she said "Stop using deodorant at all until this is better"

Out

And we went out tonight to Club Iechyd Da

And it was well busy (so just as well I insisted on being too early as we got a good seat) and just full of very talented players/singers. Very very impressive

We took my wheelchair which was pushed there, and was there so I could sit on it, I walked to the bar/loo and back to King St to the car afterwards

Walking

And as Denyse was here s'morning I asked her if I was doing right walking stickless. Unexpectedly (to me anyway) she said "No". Apparently as I am unsure etc my right leg stays much straighter etc. So I am looking better with my stick. For now

Washing Up

And after lunch today I did the washing up as we are going out to play at Caffi Iechyd Da tonight

OK, not play, spectate

Cut

Now because GGtGG is working a double today and tomorrow before Ed the hair cutter is working on Sat, he is gonna try cutting my hair so Ed can criticise him etc. As Ed is leaving next month so it may be GGtGG's duty so he can check it over.

BUT as I will be at the Drs for a jab tomorrow followed by my gym class etc we better do it today. So soon....

Off Topic

So Denyse is coming here today to do some OT work with me. (Off Topic, or Occupational Therapy) Dunno exactly what this implies, I will find out soon

And she was here talking just generally about how much better I am getting and how I need to start "getting a life" etc. And she also talked about what I can cook in case I had forgotten 

Kindle

And I have just finished the book that I have been reading on my Kindle for the last 10 days/fortnight. I was reading The Galapagos Incident and I really liked the SF tone.

I have got another Adrian Mole (noisy link) book to start tomorrow which I am rather looking forward to....

Walking About Stickless

Last night I had just left my 'stick at the other side of the kitchen, and today I went out of the front door with my 'stick held up in my right hand off the ground and walked (more slowly than usual) all the way across the front of the house and around the corner to my car door. All the way

Aqua Aerobics

And we headed off to gym s'afternoon for this. It was as much fun as last time although we did less of the walking forwards with a held in front oblong float which proved so difficult last time

Electrical Cleverness

So Clever Timmy came in s'morning. First of all he had to reconnect my PC to the ethernet connection which is much faster etc.

Then he had to try plugging in the Amazon Fire TV connection that me and Alex had failed to connect at all. He got that working so now I have loadsa channels/programmes/films to watch

Then he got stuck into mending my TV (the one that had just had the Fire TV connected) to make it make sense, where is BBC1 etc

Chicken Dinner

And today, for the first time this year, I have actually finished all this years games, won*them. The 2nd January game was proving a bit tricky but I finally won it s'morning

Dinner

And I thought "Ah, take some curry out of the freezer for dinner tonight" but then I thought "Oh, it's Alex working tonight and he doesn't like my curry" so we had preprepared summat else for tea

At The Docs

So we headed for the Drs first thing. We parked over by the chemist and I walked from there to the Drs. I waited there for 5 mins, on my feet, while the queue went on, then I waited for another 5 minutes while she found my 'script, then another 5 minutes while she looked for another 'script for me. Despite having 3 items, ordered at the same time they were written two on one 'script and one on the second. Then I walked back out of the Drs and across and down to the chemist. I sat and waited for more 5 minutes then I walked back out to the car.

From there we drove to gym, again I walked in and this time up the stairs to the exercise room. I did 3 or 4 exercises, I suspect that it was the first time I have managed to do my full time on the hand bike, then walked back down the stairs and out

Odd Memory

As someone who suffered an ABI it occasionally takes my breath away what phrases I will use, appropriately, in conversation

Cuwwy

And we had my second portion of curry for tea tonight. We finished it off, it was delicious.

But I can't remember what else I usedta cook, apart from curry and lasagne

Wimming

And we are going off swimming in a bit....

And oh what fun we had. I immediately did 6 lengths then some exercises then 2 more, we were finished really quickly.

So we are going back to the aqua aerobics class on Wednesday......

Walkies

And today I left my stick behind and just walk to the loo without it

Nervous

And leaving my PC for how long last night... but it still works s'morning, so phew etc

Curry

And I have been standing in the kitchen cooking an enormous pot of curry all afternoon....... eat it soon

PC Crisis

And after my nap it had stopped working. At 8 pm I had been too stressed to read my novel and Alex fixed it in a way that he can't recall either, but it works now.

Fixed It

And that Timmy chap came in s'morning, leaving his wife and daughter in the car as they were on their way swimming, and fixed the Interweb in about 3 seconds. I had downloaded some Adblocker software* and it didn't agree with my 'puter at all

* Adblocker for Facebook apparently

And it is nearly bath & nap time and I haven't read any of my novel yet. That was just about all I could do....

Linda McTofu

Well for some weeks I have been doing hamstring exercises. I tell folk that I object to naming it after a kind of meat (as I am a vegetarian) and calling them instead my tofustrings. But today I thought 'Na' and instead called them my LindaMcCartneyStrings

More Reasons To Shop At..

So as Timmy is coming in in the morning to try and fix my Interweb connection me and Mark went shopping today

Internet Down

And my PC won't connect to the 'net tonight. All the other machines are still working, and they all use the same network, but my PC isn't

Gym

And we headed into gym class s'morning. It was as hard work as ever but as rewarding. As I am walking more without my 'stick I only used it for one loop of the room during the 1 hr class. The rest of the time I was walking (slower but) with no 'stick.

But Alex forgot to tell me to cycle for 10 mins afterwards, and as I am so lazy I didn't remind him myself

Playing Pool S'Morning

And I had a rare treat s'morning, I think it is getting easier as it kind of knows how well I can play

Fsck Every Susannah

So later on s'afternoon Timmy will have to re-fit that FES device onto my right leg and then I will be able to walk into Aardvark

Which I did and I was able to give them back my £20 freebie card which is full of stamps now

MegaCycle

And me and Timmy went to gym s'morning and I did a 10 km cycle. It was 2 minutes quicker than last week

Sara-ing

And Sara The Physio is coming in today at 1pm to check on how I am doing. She recommended the big plasters which are stretched to twice as big before being stuck behind my right knee every few days. I don't understand what's going on but they seem to have helped enormously

And she came in, was well impresses with my walking, said "We will have to practice walking without the stick", was suitably impressed when  I told her I walk around the kitchen like that most of the time and stuck some needles in my knee to acupuncture my leg which has helped, no matter how cynical you feel

Curry-ifying

Well I have just been stood on my feet and walking about (with no stick) for ages while I peeled, chopped, stirred, added stock, stirred again etc to make this weeks curry. In a while I will need to micro some rice to go with it but not yet.

So for now I am resting

Gymming

And I went to gym s'morning and did 3 exercise machines followed by 10 minutes on the foot trainer machine, the cross trainer. In the past the longest I have managed on that was 6.5 minutes so I am getting better

And my legs mega ache now, must be that machine

On the way there we had to call back into Diablo's to pay for last nights dinner, their cash card machine had died so many customers couldn't pay

Diabling

And we are going out for dinner to Diablo's On The Quay with that Freya tonight. It is somewhere I wouldn't have been able to go in my wheelchair but now....

Well nice night of food etc we had. My food was delicious and it just felt a bit strange being capable of going in somewhere like that now.....

'Wimming

And we went swimming today and it was fine. The steps into the pool are fixed which was nice and I got in, did 4 lengths, some exercises, did 2 more and more exercises then 2 more. Then I stepped back out on the steps.

And "someone" did say "It's fixed, want it?"

The Day After

And it is the day after valentines day and my PC is still showing me the heart to send someone a romantic email

Breath Deeply

Well s'morning I had to fix up the photos taken at Rocky last night as it was late when we got back and ever since then it has been a quiet day

Where We Are Eating Later

And we are popping out to eat as Rocky is so far away today.....

Ooooooh, a good time was had by all

Aargh

And we had to nip into town and look for a black miniskirt to wear over my Rocky Horror gear tomorrow

And we had to walk loadsa distance in the shop to find the till etc

Gym

And we headed over to a proper class in gym today which went well. Afterwards I got on the new(ish) Crossover machine and lasted 2 minutes longer than last time I tried

Getting Ready

So before we nip to gym today me and Alex are starting to look at tomorrows Rocky Horror costume

Late Dinner

And I am cooking the one potato that was left over from last week for tea, baking it.

And it is taking longer than a long think in Longitown

Across The Universe

And already I can't stop singing my Health Food Shop song which comes from my different version of gord nose what... Aardvarking across the universe, boldly going forward as we can't find reverse...

The original was Star Trekkin'.... it occurs to me

Didn't He Do Well

So my timetable now sez "Long cycle" for Thursday. So before Timmy had arrived s'morning I had already got a bottle of water waiting in the hall and today I started off cycling and didn't look at time/distance. I think this was much better than last week when I was speeding and gave up after 5 km. Towards the end I was looking at time/distance and realised that I was going quicker than I have ever.

10km in almost exactly 50 minutes

Therapy

So the binmen came and took away the bags and left behind them the small, emptied, foodwaste bin. So  thought "I will get that back when I go out to the car to go to gym" but then "NO, it's good for you walking about, go and get it".

So I did

Out For Tea

And in a few minutes me and GGtGG are heading over to my ex neighbour's house for tea, Ruth's in Mynydd Cerrig

Wow it was pleasant. Hard walking to Ruth's as I couldn't see where to put my feet, for the first half, after that it was fine, we walked in and had a lovely evening with Ruth and her now 1.5 legged chap and her son. I think it may be monthly now.......

And GGtGG found it, no prob. He took me the way I used to travel but it was just getting dark so my vision was no good

Cheesy Chopper

So The Cheesy Chopper is coming to do my toes s'morning. Can't decide what to title her, Luscious Linda, Sexy Susannah, Gorgeous Greta..... or Naughty No-Name....

And didn't she do well. She complimented me on the state of my feet and was just generally very nice

Aqua Aerobics

So today instead of swimming I am going to an Aqua Aerobics session that they are running at t'gym

But need to have an early lunch first so I will be off to do that in a tick....

Off to pool in 3 minutes....

And wasn't it hard work. It felt like hard work that was doing me sum good anyway. She did comment that I couldn't manage everything but I was trying

Strange Dream

And I recall a strange dream that I had last night. I dreamed that I met a chap I haven't seen since secondary school who was carrying a massive (A2) photograph of him that his mother had taken professionally. Stephen Wheeler he was called...