Hooray

Fecking swimming today...

We shopped yesterday so nothing else in my diary for s'morning

Well it wasn't too bad. I had forgotten what a difference being able to kick with 2 feet again makes. So I was able to do my 8 lengths easily

I Can

So s'afternoon I was struggling with walking. But come cooking time I just found that I was distracted enuf that I just got on and did it.

Gord nose

Strangely Fixed

So after all my walking s'morn my right knee was complaining lots, not wanting to move property etc. I was a bit concerned but thought WTF to do?

So I had my bath, was sitting in warm water for about 20 mins, not exercising or owt, got back out of the bath and my leg is about 87% better

More Feet

So we went out and first of all we walked into to Morrisons. and did the rest of my weeks shopping. But we couldn't find any frozen chopped onion or picture frames for my won on EBay pic so we went to Farmfoods and again walked in and had a look around. We just found some onion bits there so we headed down to The Range where I was still walking (up and down the escalator too, which was a bit of an event) and right at the back of the fscking shop, the longest walk away, we found some picture frames

All these combined with having to walk around the car to press buttons for the diesel fill up after Morrisons stop that was a bit of a long walk s'morning 

When we were heading to Farmfoods after the diesel stop I thought "Wheelchair, boot"  but then I thought "NO, you are so much better just keep it up" so I did

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