Was I In Charge?

And I found this document from when I was a computer teacher amongst tat yesterday. I have no fscking memory of this but.....

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Stress BUT Fun?

So we are heading to the swimming pool later for an Aqua Aerobics session......

"Oh what fun we had, but......"

And didn't we do it. And again I did the whole class on my own two feet, not having to hold the side of the pool at all

WTF?

And I was going thru the box of "stuff from filing cabinet" and there was an opened envelope in there. Where The F*ck was I staying then?????

Right Hand

And I have noticed that recently I am using my right hand in ways that just wouldn't have been possible last week. I went to loo to have a pooh tonight, put my phone in the right hand side pocket of my trews and took it out to read with my right hand.

And put my electric toothbrush back on it's stand with my right hand.

These just wouldn't have been possible a fortnight ago

Feels Odd

And the towels that I washed yesterday then dried outside on the washing line feel different than usual, more rough kind of thing. More effective at drying tho...

Cycl-fecking-ing

So we came to gym s'morning and I have another 8.5km to go.....

Hooray...

Only 7 now.....

Three quarters of an hour after starting and now there are only 3 km to go....

Well I finished it in about 56 minutes, not my fastest time but it was too fecking hot for exercise

Early Walkies

And s'morning I nipped out and did a Helena Style walk down the path to the left and back up. With no FES fitted, it just feels so much better, I kind of can't describe it, trying to move my foot by the knee, not trying to lift my hip or summat

Sentimental

So I took MM out to the garage and looked thru the filing cabinet. About ⅔ of the contents is in the "check with Timmy before throw it away", a couple of boxes have come indoors with us and there is about ⅓ of a drawer full of precious sentimental stuff whereas before there were 4 drawers full of tat

I will have to go back out and sort out the "Neil's old stuff" pile in the corner, perhaps when GGtGG is working next

Aargh

So I said to MM "Right, lets go swimming", he looked at me a bit oddly and said "We don't have to go for a hour Neil, it's at quarter to 3"

Well I just did the whole class without having to hold on for balance. Hopping on my right foot for example

Glug

As there is no Headway distraction today we are fecking off to Water Works at late today, 2.45 pm

But today I have gotta wash 2 loads, I recon the first will be dry by the time I have gone to the pool then washed the second

It was dry before I tried to go swimming an hour early, well warm today

WTF

Then GGtGG said after dinner "Lets go out and practice your proper walking" so I said "Good idea" and headed out. Parked up on Lammas St as usual. We walked along Chapel St then up the barricaded off bit of Little Water St and turned to walk back along King St. Outside The Parrot pub was a man I know who often plays mouth organ at Clwb Iechyd Da, he said "Hiya, coming to our gig here tonight?". WTF?

So me and GGtGG walked all the way back to the car, jumped in and headed back to park up at the end of King St. Went and listened to the support act then The Low Down Dirty Dog Blues Band who were actually rather entertaining

Insults

dictionary.com The Best Old-Timey Insults We Should be Using Today sound, but not necessary

Imminent

So when I got up s'morning I put my bed sheets in the wash. It takes about an hour and a half to wash so it finished at about 9.30. I thought I'd better put it on to tumble dry as they said it was gonna rain s'morning on the news but the weather still looked fine so I put it out to dry on the line. An hour and a half later I checked and it was fully dry so brought it in, surprised at how quickly it had dried. An hour after that it was raining heavily here

Clearing Out The Garage

So GGtGG got stuck into clearing out the garage today. There is lots of stuff that came from The Leonard Cheshire Home and hasn't been looked at since, now it just needs binning etc

And when we are rid of the tat we can actually organise, put the rest of the stuff on shelves etc

Walkies

So we headed into town for a Helena Style Walkie and parked on the turn in Lammas St, walked all the way thru town, up past Debenhams and sat on the warm from the sun bench at the top of the hill. Walked back down and headed up Mansel St to take us further walkies then headed back to the car.

All the way trying to teach my brain that this is the new habitual way of walking with my right leg

Drying Time

And the washing was dry an hour and a half after I hung it out today

Farmfoodsing

Then we popped into Farmfoods s'afternoon and bought more chilli and garlic 'ketchup' and I bought a few other items that we didn't really "need" but they were nice

Helena's Advice

And I took myself out for a walk down the footpath to the left of my house s'morning. I had no FES on but was trying to take Helena'a advice about bending my knee rather than my hip and for the whole couple of hundred yards of my walk both my feet stayed flat and level. This is just a wow in the extreme, my right foot used to be hitting the ground at 45° sideways at it's worst.

And I went out for another walk s'morning. It feels really odd. For some years I have been trying to lift my leg at the hip, but actually as Helena said to do it, it feel so wrong and low, but I just swing my knee forward and pick up my toes. It just feels all wrong compared with how I have been trying to RElearn how to do it, but my right foot stays flat and it feels more stable/better etc. Aargh, learning......

BUT by fark but it is easy to forget what I am doing and start to get it all wrong. Carrying stuff or any other distraction and it goes back to "my traditional" style. I have got to change what my brain thinks is traditional.....

A Bit *WOW*

So I just walked from the kitchen to the living room and it occurred to me, yes I am walking slower than I used to because I am trying various things, but as I walked my right foot stayed flat to the floor every step. That is just a WOW, it used to turn over nearly half way. Just by jasus, the improvement might be happening in small ways but it is even impressing me

Missed Her

And we missed Sam's class at gym as we were along the motorway at Neuro Physio Wales where we did loads of practicing moving my right leg properly. Which I do feel I learned from but I have to walk much slower until I have RElearned the habits

And we stopped off in Asda and had a cheap lunch on the way back, we would have been much too late to eat otherwise