Walkies

And today I was settling onto my bed for my nap when the door blew noisily, bang bang bang, so I got up to shut it tight. I walked, only perhaps 4 or 5 steps to reach it, but the fact that I had no wheelchair or walking stick with me just seems impossible, but it's what I did

Evening Out

Then s'evening we went out to somewhere we hadn't thought of, I asked Alex and he found somewhere I have been before but haven't been for months, as in I had forgotten it existed but I had a rather nice meal, the same as Alex and David ordered!!

So meet the wrinklies tomorrow at Morrisons when it opens (11am) then they have to leave within a couple of hours so dunno what we will do then

BotGsns

So before lunchtime we headed over to National Botanic Gardens where first of all I walked all the way up the hill, without even stopping for a rest. It is 14 years since I have been able to do that but it seems easy now, today, so obviously my progress is incredible.

Out For Dinner

So today Freya txted me and said "Meet you at..... at..... a time" so my parents went ahead to Tafarn Tanerdy and when we got there it was a bit delicious and about half the menu was vegetarian so me and Freya were happy. But we both ordered the same thing, and both finished it, veggie lasagne.

And we got there, I stood up and walked from the car indoors and sat in a proper seat until we had finished

Gym

Then after an hour we met them at Gym and went into my weekly class. Gosh they were amazed at how much I can do now. Sam told me to do the getting down and back up from the floor which I did and I think it really impressed my mother

So now they have gone off somewhere and I am gonna bath and nap then pick up Freya and go out for a meal

Shopping

Then s'morning me and Gareth headed into Aardvark to do most of the weeks shopping. Outside, waiting, we found my parents and brother, and they were rather impressed as I walked up stairs to fill my basket, left, right, left, right I did which I couldn't manage last time I saw them

Visitors

Then later my parents and my big brother arrived. It was nice, we had a chat then went to the hotel where they are staying and had a meal

Sara-ing

So then Sara the Physio came round and said "Shall we go out?", I said no and explained what I wanted. So she said first exercise your Ham Strings so bendy bendy leg etc. Which was dull but it seems to be improving me so I shouldn't complain too loudly. But then she said "Where are your ankle weights?" Alex fetched them and promptly I was able to walk from one end of the room to another with no walking stick!! I feel it is just incredible, it is 13 years since I was able to do that, it is just a GETTING BETTER stage that I had no vision of ever being able to do, ever.

Nastics

And as Denyse wasn't coming s'morning that meant there was less pressure on time so we went to Gym and did 3 loads exercises and 20 minutes on the bike, came back here and had an early lunch and then waiting for Sara Physio to come. She did phone me s'morning and said "Shall we go to The Botanic Gardens and practice walking?" but I had to say "No, that's Saturdays option" so.....

Bitter Tears

And Denyse has just emailed me to say that she won't be able to Skype me later so she will txt me when she is available. I am trying not to cry too loudly because one knows that whatever gets in her way will probably be really important to one of her other clients so.....

Long(est) Walk

So this afternoon me and Alex headed into town to try "going for a walk". We parked in Wilko and headed down Merlin's Walk towards town. Alex was pushing my 'chair as last time I sat down and rested once or twice along the way. But this time I walked the whole length of Merlin's Walk, across the road and along about 3 shops to Cafe Nero where I walked in, Alex folded my 'chair up and put it in the corner, and I sat in a proper seat at a proper table and had a brew. Then I walked back out and started off back to the car, again Alex had to push my empty chair. The whole way back to the car, it was the first time I have managed to do that whole trip on my own two feet

Dear

Woe is me, so when Alex was coming into work with me today he got half way here and remembered "Oh no, I've forgotten my swimming trunx and towel".

And as he is too tight fisted to stop at Spar and buy some more......

So do you think I should tell him to go to gym instead? But as he reads this he might realise soon....

Interweb Crisis

So s'morning I thought I would update my BLOG while eating my breakfast, but the iPad(1) was refusing to connect to the Interweb. So I restarted it and it still wouldn't work. So I left it in discust and went into the living room and sat at my PC. And the Interweb wasn't working here either. Then I heard some loud swearing coming from the office as Gareth had typed loads of report and pressed send, it had gone from their PC but no Interweb so it had disappeared. So I walked into the hall and pressed the "Reset" button on the bottom of the router and it all seems to work again. Eventually

(1) But I woke up s'morning, got dressed, walked towards the kitchen for breakfast but on the way there I nipped into the living room to unplug my iPad from charging and take it back into the kitchen to use it. So obviously certain aspects of my memory are improving. Just certain aspects as I couldn't remember why I had typed this "(1)" into my blog..... so I deleted it and half an hour later recalled  and came back to put it right

Gymming

Then after lunch we nipped to't gym for a session. I did 3 exercises then got stuck into my 20 minute session on the bike. As someone had been negative about how much harder it is to cycle again after stops (as some chemical builds up in the stopped muscle)  I tried going a bit slower but keeping it up today. I only had one stop for breath in my whole cycle session

Petty Cash Shopping

So s'morning we went to the shop that used to be called Wilkinson's but it is now just known as Wilko according to all their publicity. There we bought some loo cleaner etc so we can show my parents what a good supply we have

Gymless

And after such a hectic day I haven't had time to go to gym, nearly crying

Tooth Out

And after such a hectic day I have to go back to the Dentist to have my tooth out, the one that she did so much work on a few days ago

Just wow, when she looked at my tooth she said “It's your bit that broke, not mine, I can fix that“ and proceeded to fix my tooth, not take it out

So I now have an invisible tooth, there are some roots that were mine but all the rest has been built up by a very groovy dentist. All, built up

Dr Phoned Me

Then we waited for ages for the doctor to phone me about my jab, waited until lunchtime, he phoned, I was just in by the fridge when I said "Hello" but the mobile signal there is rubbish and the call cut off. He left me a message to say "Returning your call" so I had to try and phone back. After 18 calls we actually spoke, I said "Can I change my Testosterone to a 3 monthly jab", he said "Dunno, I will look into it" and that was that. So on the 19th when I go for my next jab I will be able to see if he has found some of the 3 monthly stuff that I was told about by someone else.

Practicing

And despite it being well busy today I had time to practice writing links on the txt in Webpages that I had been struggling to recall as they have changed the technique in my chosen editor

He Fixed It

So first of all the wheelchair fixer chap came and replaced the bit on the back and 2 castors