Black Friday

So we nipped into the pub up the road for Black Friday, the busiest drinking day in UK, apparently. It was busier than usual but still 2/3 empty

Big Shop

So going into town s'afternoon, with my old glasses to leave in at a charity shop, instructions to buy a new oven shelf and a shopping list for Aardvark

And we finally found the opticians (who said "We would have put new lenses in for you!), couldn't find an oven shelf anywhere (Sheffield House is closed down now) and got an enormous Aardvark shop

Physioing

So I am sitting on the front of my seat waiting excitedly for the Physio lady to come here. I want to ask her if I should try walking without my splint in these big boots and practice walking with a bent knee that doesn't hurt

Well we talked about it and decided that splinting=the future, for now

And she suggested I take my walky stick with me when I go outside so with stick I walked slightly more than half way up the street and back. (5)

I could have gone further but I was most anxious about my knee hurting on the way back down the hill, but as I remembered to bend it slightly it didn't hurt at all.

So she has suggested that every nice day I repeat the walk

(5) I could have walked further today but I was nervous about coming back downhill hurting me but as I have learned to walk without my knee hurting I could have gone further

Afterwards

Then after we dropped Freya at home we nipped to the Drovers Arms in Carmarthen which used to be my next door neighbours pub in town, a long time ago, but it was nice to go there and I gathered extra evidence on how much better my peeing is as we had 3 drinks there and came home before I went to't loo

Fredumpkins

Then later we went to meet Freya from school and she came here and commented on how I was sitting in an armchair while she sat at my PC eg.

Walking

And I have finally sussed it that when I am walking if my right foot hits the floor under a 2 or 3 degrees bent knee rather than a rigid, straight, one it hardly hurts at all, unlike my other walking pattern with a straight leg which made me wanna cry and stop walking it hurt so much.

Now I have sussed it walking is a lot easier

Christmas Crisis

Then s'morning when Paul phoned my Mum and said "Going here for Christmas, and here for Boxing day dinners" Mum said "Oh no, The Harvester that you have booked for boxing day, last time we ate there I was sick" so he had to phone several places and luckily Frankie&Benny's has accepted us

Poohing

So s'mornings pooh.... "No Neil, just shhhh"

(sent from my phone)

Snoozed

So this morning, when my "pocket clever thing" went off I woke up I thought "What's that other button on the RHS?" put on my specs, ah, it said "Snooze" so I tried it. 9 minutes later my alarm went off again and I got up.

Radical and old fashioned but now I know

Slackbladder

And I have tried watching Blackadder as it was writen about as one of the funniest things and yes, it is very funny

The Good Life

And I am watching a rather excellent documentary about The Good Life and it is even funnier than I remember it from 20 years ago.

They said that "They" became famous about when Mrs Thatcher won the election for the first time, so Margo played a scary woman character

Milking

And I poured my milk with dinner with my right hand again. I didn't spill any tonight and poured a full glass. With my right hand

Hurting

So most of the time when I walk my right knee hurts loads. Sometimes when I concentrate and bend my knee more or summat it doesn't hurt at all. It feels like I am walking less well but my knee disagrees. Dunno how to ensure that it doesn't hurt, practice I s'pose

Jim

Good lord, I was working very hard at gym and another couple of women said that they can see I'm loosing weight.

But that is the last Gym class until 2nd Jan, Wednesday week

Site Gone

And my website has been suspended as it hasn't been paid or summat and I can't get logged in to pay myself

Crisis, crisis, crisis

after many phone calls etc it is working again, so I had to pay it myself but phew, it works now

Rubbish From My Fridge

So tonight we had a clean out of my fridge door, I said I was a bit puzzled, the 7 items there had been there for ages, and yes, Timmy checked 7 or 8 jars and they were all well beyond the BBE dates and were thrown away. So my fridge door looks a bit naked now, nakeder than it ever has since I moved here

With My Right Hand

So I was about to pour a glass of milk to drink with my dinner. Suddenly I stopped, thought "RIGHT HAND" and used that to pick up the bottle and pour. Lordy, it's the first time in ages that I used my right hand for this. It was almost perfect, only 1 or 2 ml escaped. ANOTHER thing to practice

(sent from my phone)

It Hurts

So walking my right knee hurts loads. When I am really trying I remember to bend my right knee when I step. Then it doesn't hurt AT ALL.

Practice makes perfect, I s'pose.

I am struggling to make new pathwats in my brain, as the old pathways were so badly damaged by my crash

OK, now I can't tell if my pathways were damages by bleeding in the brain or by relearning when I was just starting to sit up in bed etc afterwards

Tobyless

So I txted Ybot this morning and said "Are you about tonight?" and he replied "No, sorry I forgot to tell u, I am in Wolverhampton 'til the weekend"

SaraH Jones

So SaraH Jones the Occupational Therapist came round and came to Morrison's with me and Timmy. Without my wheelchair, we left my wheelchair here in the hall, walked to the car, drove to supermarket, walked to get a trolley and pushed it around the shop on my feet.

I am flipping exhausted now but I managed!!