Still On My Own Two Feet

And by gosh, did I ever need someone to tell me off the way Denyse hasn't had to yet.

I wheelchaired into the kitchen s'morning, had breakfast, had my boots fitted and at that point I left my 'chair in't kitchen. All day I have been using it when in the kitchen or out with Paul. The rest of the time I have been walking everywhere, even without my splint on or my Bioness device, which I gave to Denyse to return to the owners t'other day

Bathing no wheelchair

Well I have just bathed and gone for my nap with my 'chair being stuck in't kitchen. Now I wasn't as scared doing it as I was yesterday, so summat must be improving

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Walking

And I am walking everywhere indoors again today, I think it is slightly easier than yesterday.

So hopefully that is a pattern

Out

Then s'afternoon me and Alex turned left at the end of the street and headed through miles of beautiful countryside until we arrived in Saundersfoot. So then we got out of the car, loaded me into wheelchair (which I hadn't been in since breakfast time, not even walking out to the car) and went for an explore. On the way we discovered A Traditional Sweety Shop which took me back a year or 17 and I had to buy some some soft, not chokable, not going the wrong way down my throat, sweets

And before we left we had to go and but an Ice Cream

Better/Smaller

And after 2 days of antibiotics my right leg seems a lot smaller/uninfected again

Fredumpkins

Then we had Freya down for tea eventually and it was very pleasant. And because it was a Friday we had chips again

On My Own Two Feet

Lordy, so I have just left my 'chair in the kitchen and later walked from the living room, to my bedroom and then to the bathroom, had a bath and walked from there to my bedroom to have a nap

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What a day

So first thing s'morning we drove to the hospital and I walked in and saw Denyse and the doctor that I had the appointment with. He said he has been asked to check out my glandular system but on the grounds of today he thought I was fine. But he is gonna make an appointment for me to have loadsa blood tests so we can be sure. Then I was due at gym but felt too gobsmacked by the days appointment to go. So we went to Aardvark and did a weeks shopping and then to Morrisons to look at snack foods which I am allowed as Denyse brought me a big list of dangerous snacks, like most of the ones I like

AND we are gonna have a special treat tonight as Freya is coming for dinner as "She forgot" yesterday

Cream Egg Lollies

And I have just had the first of my new batch of Cream Egg Lollies and WOW they are lovely. It's more than a week since I had one

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What a performance

So I had a sitting outside a team meeting which took ages as the newbies needed a 3 month assessment but they were all positive about me. Then Denyse made me agree to walk everywhere in the house which I needed her to do as I have become too attached to my 'chair

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Then Denyse and Paul looked at my leg and said "Go to Drs", I started to panic as I have an appointment at hospital tomorrow, but it turns out that this appointment isn't for fitting my NHS Bioness device, that it next week, this is just to check out why I fainted t'other week.

So I have a week before the Bioness appt, I should be better by then, so they can fit me

They Are ALL Here

And so my entire team, workers and boss, are here to have a team meeting

Denyse brought some more buns that her daughter made, and what can I say.  
YUM YUM flipping YUM

And I have just walked to the loo, it's easy, why haven't I been doing this?

Out For a Drive

So we went out for a drive tonight, up my street, turned opposite, went onto back-roads and went up and back downhill for miles, it was rather nice

It's In The Way

Aargh, with my new t-shirt my bumbag(1) is in the way, you can't read all of it

(1) Which I need as only one hand can work in pockets etc

Petty Cash Shopping

So we had to nip to Wilkinson's shop and spend petty cash on tea, coffee and sugar for my team

Aargh, then 10 minutes after we came back the staff printer ran out of ink so we had to go to another shop in Carmarthen and stock up

Flash

And we disabled some program to keep the ads from appearing on my site but had to switch it back on again to see video's

GYMing

So we went to gym s'morning a few minutes late but we made it. It went well, I wasn't sitting down at all.

As we were leaving one of the other women in the class approached me and commented on how much better I am getting every week.

Then afterwards we decided to head into town and have a coffee at Cafe Nero which was nice, just sitting watching the world go by

No Interweb

So I was eating breakfast, tried to get The Guardian up on the iPad, it said "No, internet connection". I looked, all the light's on the router were lit, so I went to my PC and pressed "Get mail". It waited..... and waited..... and waited.

So I nipped back to the router, pressed "Restart" and 5 minutes later I was reading The Guardian on the iPad once more

O&A

Then s'afternoon me & Gareth traveled about 30 miles to check out The Queens Hall, Narberth to judge accessibility etc. It seems fine, recently done to wider doors etc, disabled loos etc so I think we might go and see one of the comedy acts and/or one of the bands that play there soon

Afterwards we nipped across the road to see the folk that book, then we pottered around town for a bit then we went back to the hall to have a local ice cream, which I was rather impressed with

Bathing

And yesterday, when I got up and out of the bath I had to say to Edwina about how impressed I was with the lifting me up and down into the bath device

Wheelychair Fixer

And the man we had to phone last week came out s'morning to "fix" my wheelchair. So he is gonna order 4 new wheels and will come back and fit 'em within a week (hopefully)

So effectively it will be a new chair with an old middle prop bit....