Really 2 Feet

So just now I stood up in the kitchen and walked to the bathroom for a pee without my walking stick

Dunno, no doubt someone will tell me that is is too difficult and dangerous, so don't do for these reasons but...

Aardvarking

Then after 5 we headed into Aardvark and bought a weeks fruit and veg and milk etc

Half Hearted

So I went to gym and just did 4km on the bike. It took me about 23 mins and then I said "Let's go", Timmy replied "You did 10km last time we were here together" but I just thought "Enough"

Icy

And it was well icy today, taking Alex home. After 12.30 there was still loadsa ice on the field but as I didn't have my camera with me I had to take a photo with my phone. Which isn't as clear but you can just about see how much ice there is on the field. By the afternoon

More Farmfoodsing

Then because I needed some more garlic bread and summat that isn't sweet potato oven chips (for Alex) we popped back to Farmfoods. Where a MOS was being very positive, she hasn't seen me walk before etc.

And we bumped into a passer by who I met somewhere and she hadn't seen me walk before either.....

What A Day

What a day, at least it is over now. Right, first thing Alex, who was s'posed to go home at 10.13 today, had a car crisis. It wouldn't start. So we looked in the garage, in the boot of the car, in the end we popped to the neighbours and asked to borrow some jump leads. We plugged them in, left the car for half an hour while my car was running, then Gareth got in my car and reved it while Alex tried to start his. Nowt.

So we had to take Alex home, nearly all the way to Cardigan, he lives miles away, in Drefach Velindre.

So because that took so much time we couldn't go swimming so we headed to town for a walk

We parked up at the corner of Blue St (the bus station) and Lammas St and set off walking, with no wheelchair accompaniment. We walked thru town to the new shopping centre that used to be the Cattle Market Car Park. Walked all the way up thru that, gave a busker a quid and walked back down to the old Aardvark shop, it's now a café and a very nice one. After a brew in there we walked all the way back to the car. Big walks!! And big walks as we weren't in gym today so I did loadsa outside work

Gizzit

And each and every night about this time I think "Gizzmy wheelchair" but every night I think "No, good practice" so...

Nearly Winning

And after a morning of genius there is only one that I haven't won this month

Sick Of It

And good lord but I am sick of this fscking rehabilitation, I just wanna be better. Dunno if my process will ever end but I suppose the consequences of 'failing' doesn't.....

More Walking

Then s'afternoon we popped out to get some more coffee and sugar for the staff and a few bits of cleaning stuff.

We fetched it from Home Bargains in Carmarthen and again I was on my own two feet with no wheelchair in sight

-ing

So we went to gym s'morning and did 4 machines followed by a 10 min cycle. On the machines I felt nearly at breaking point but I just carried on without complaining. The very fact that I felt able to just carry on is a sign that I am getting fitter/healthier

Strange Dream

So I had a strange dream last night. I dreamt that in town we had met Naomi from (ex) Brer Rabbit and we drove up to her new house and had a cuppa

Really strange when my alarm went off s'morning I was thinking about this and couldn't tell whether it had been a dream or if it was real. To get to her new house you drive past where Brer Rabbit was then a couple of minutes later you turn right.

Gord nose.....

Struggle On

And I have been a bit pi**ed off with having to carry stuff about today but I just did it. On my own two feet...

What Fun....

And we are off to the swimming pool in a bit....

(not real photo, somewhere else)

So we went and mostly I am just astonished at how well my right foot is kicking water away.  So because swimming is so much easier/faster I did all 8 lengths, easily

And I was nervous about being able to walk afterwards, but I tried it on the way out of the 'pool to the car and that gave me some confidence so we got home and I just walked

BUT  even tho it has been fixed for a week it was the first time I have sat in my "normal" wheelchair since it was fixed and just wow, it's wide enuf etc

Sunday Shop

And as Sunday is my usual Supermarket Day and I had already got my weeks shopping in Morrison's t'other day we headed off to Farmfoods. As we had to go past the driveway on the way we stopped at Morrison's first and I walked in, looked around and chose some snacks.

Then we drove down to Farmfoods and this time, as I had checked out distance etc t'other day I walked in and around, got 1 of the things we were after and a substitute for the other

Walking, both shops. Walking

Struggle, struggle, struggle

And I still does my head in, actually changing my bed then carrying the washing to the machine. I used to not walk at all one day of the weekend, the day when I had to carry this heavy box out, used to be wheelchair happy for 1 day. Used to be, used to be. My wheelchair doesn't come in the house at all nowadays...

Making Dinner

And once again I cooked on my own two feet. It is still a pain, but it does get a little bit easier every day

Currying

So I am cooking a curry tonight. It will be made from veg and a jar of sauce. Marginally nervous but I hope it will be nice

And it was nice. I was worried it was too runny, I had added too much water, but it tasted very good, I don't think it was too much actually.

So....

Yes......

The Weekend?

Is it really Saturday tomorrow? Where has the week gone?