Jab

Well that was quick and easy, after 2 mins wait we were called in, she did it, made an appt for 6 months on, then we left. About 10 mins total in there

BUT I thought to myself that I will try sitting on one of their lower chairs today, ie most of their chairs. When we got there all the taller chairs were full so I had to sit on a lower one, but when she called my name I was able to stand up

Sunny

Well today is a sunny day now, s'pose the clear sky was why it was so cold last night.

Sunny but still chilly

Ice Ice Baby

And when MM went out to remove his car s'morning he had to scrape the ice off the windscreen etc, it was icy last night

Balance Is Improving

So in the rain storms in the last few days 3 or 4 times when moving my walky stick has left me, slid away, usually when I am changing direction or summat. Not once have I hit the floor or needed to be caught by my MOS or even needed to grab the wall with my hand. My balance and reactions to disaster is just so much better these days

Pizza&Chips on a Thursday?

So it's all a bit strange. So went shopping for the week s'morning and bought Na'an Bread etc, picked up the veg too so we had onion&mushrooms, same as usual. But usually on a Thursday the person working with me will be Timmy, who objects to my food, and doesn't eat it. But today me and Mark is working so we were able to eat Pizza and once a week chips tonight.

Yummy scrummy in my tummy

You Have To Do Stuff Tomorrow

I don't know why but it feels like the week is over now. No Neil, you have important stuff to do tomorrow, an injection at the Docs in the morning and a gym class in the nooneraft

Paranoia

And as we had to put the little bin things out to be emptied today I was a bit paranoid about them blowing away once they were emptied so I went out as soon as the binmen had been and removed it.

5 minutes later I am looking out the front window and I can see many neighbours' bins blowing down the street

Quieter

And we have a quieter day today. Need to pick up my organic delivery, then go get the rest of my shopping and then the only thing to do is gym, I think today it is "do 4 machines" kind of day so not too stressful

Then after we brought the food home & I put it away we nipped to the gym for a session. Today as MM hasn't been doing that duty since before their "redoing" we just went on the machines that he suggested. Hopefully the new "scan your bracelet" device will have worked and my records will be on some PC somewhere

Tories

From www.independent.co.uk/

Practice

And more practice working with sound to get it into my head how to do it so next time I am stuck I will just remember how.

And how to send the sound from my phone in an email to my PC so I can use it on my website etc (Hint hint). Nothing needs plugging into anything else, they send it thru the air, magically

WTF's going on?

So WTF is this about, a letter from my Doctor?

Were Off

So in 45 minutes time it is time to go to Aqua Aerobics. With GGtGG who she thinks is useless, but that's not my problem

Aargh, so today there wasn't the usual teacher, the replacement was aware of my limitations etc but the exercises she made us do were extra knackering

Aaaah

So last night when heading bedwards I closed the kitchen door. It just closed quietly and easily, I no longer had to do 4 or 5 bangs to make it close. That's better. (Click on pic to hear noise)

Weep Bitter Tears.

Yes, it's as dull as ditchwater doing all this physio, it is hard and painful on so many levels, but it seems to be working. On so many levels I am improving. The obvious ones (to me) are my balance and general fitness but on so many levels I am getting so much better than "they" thought I would be able to

And before my bath s'afternoon I, as usual, got on my bed and did the 30 lifting my feet up&backwards which as usual filled me with joy. But my balance and strength are improving so don't complain too hard 

Strange Day Too

So s'morning me and RoyGBiv headed back to the chemist that's attached to the doctors surgery to get the other bottle of stuff that I was supposed to pick up yesterday but they didn't have enough. I also had to check that they had ordered the goo to be injected into my leg next week

So I had to pay to park for 2 minutes but there you go.

Then we popped back to gym and got some help getting the new clippy on bits to work the machines work. So hopefully next time I am there it will just work. Apparently anyway, we did all the setting up. Anyway, despite starting off on the machine without logging in and then stopping it and getting help to log in etc so we didn't have a definite time I think that it was still faster then last week etc etc

Strange Day

So today firstly we need to have an early lunch then head off to the Drs to fetch my 'script then head to Headway where they are having a strange "Meet folk with brain injury" kind of day where amongst the folk with brain injury will be me

That was a very strange day. It was somewhat busier than usual but not by a lot. I entered raffle and various competitions to show I wasn't tight fisted but I didn't win a fscking thing. I played Connect Four with a chap who makes me realise that I wasn't the illest person ever. But I lost to him twice and MM also lost 2 matches to him. Yes, he is a bit fscked but he is very good at Connect Four

Walkies, again

So we popped into town today and parked on Lammas St. From there we walked down to St Catherines Walk and went shopping there.  We went into Debenhams and seemed to get stuck in the Ladieswear section so we had to leave abruptly. From there we popped into Tiger a sells-everything junk shop but we didn't even spend in there

I did find it hard on the way there just on old fashioned pavements, there is more dug up bits and general unevenness 

Recall

And s'morning I just remembered that I am due to change my bed. Just woke up, and recalled before I had even sat up in bed

Some of my memory is improving, I used to have to leave notes to myself stuck to the back of the door

First Of All

Well, first, on the way to town we called into gym and got my freebie, that they emailed me about, new methods of telling the machines who you are etc.

More Big Walkies

And today after lunch we headed into town and first of all walked the length of Merlins Walk which was well busy, at the end we got the lift down and walked thru the bus station back towards town, then walked past the old Town Hall, uphill on Guildhall Square, across and back downhill by Iechyd Da then back to where we were parked on Lammas St