Again

So I managed to walk up & down the kitchen to make our dinner. Just lawks and lordy. What can I do now...?

Phew

So Alex came to work yesterday carrying a new car battery, plugged it into his car which has been here for 3 or 4 days, and this morning it started and he was able to take in home again.

Relief

Uber-Struggle

So s'morning I changed my bed and just carried the box out of my bedroom on my own two feet. I know that it is 2 or 3 weeks I have been doing this but it still amazes me, just how much more capable am I?

Struggle

Gosh, my brain hurts. I am still walking, it is SO late but I still am.... My brain hurts, it just wasn't the usual for some years....

Important But Hard To Explain

So after my bath I stood there drying myself, I was drying my back, start at the top going backwards and forwards then I reached the point where I needed to move my arms over the towel and rub the bottom of my back and my bottom. As it has been doing for many years my left arm just did it, but my right arm which hasn't been able to do the same move without much help from my left just did it today. For the first time in how many years? So yes, it might seem small and irrelevant to you but it is proof, in so many strange ways, both big and small, that I am getting better

Pat & His Black And White Cat

And the postman came s'morning and dropped off a security camera and recorder for the car that in a moment of paranoia I bought. It's still in the box but we have been to gym and are back having lunch so hopefully...

And Timmy is as we speak booking "our" trip to Belfast

So he has my credit card and is making the payments for a June trip for GGtGG, me and Alex

Classworthy

And I am going to my only gym class of the week at lunchtime, potentially followed by 10 mins on a pushbike

And I managed it all. The class went as well as classes do, it seemed rather busy today so Sam didn't have as much Neil time but it was ok. After I did 10 mins on a bike. After 5 mins I had done X distance but in the second 5 I did 1.5X

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.....