Pain In My Hip

And my ar*e hurts a bit when moved on where I had the injection yesterday

Lovely Day

And it is a fine Welsh summers day today

No Stick

So last night I was at the sink preparing..... and I thought "It's getting too dark" so I turned and walked almost the whole length of the kitchen, to the switch, and back without holding on to owt as I passed and, more to the point, with no walking stick.

It is harder, I have to walk slower but if I am keeping an eye on making sure it all moves properly I can fscking walk

Busy Morning #2

Well I went to the Drs and had my now 3 monthly testosterone jab which is a bigger jab than the one monthly one I have had for a couple of months now but it is done. I have an ache in my bumcheek where they injected but it's done.

On the way home we popped into the gym for a series of exercises. Today we were doing arm exercises and just wow but I am getting much stronger. There is a lifting exercise that I used to be able to just do 6 out of the total, 30, but today, for the first time, I managed all 30. Now I have been told to do my exercises in groups of 10, with a half minute pause to let my muscles breathe between 10's but I was so exhausted that in the final lifting exercise I did 10, then 5, 5, 5 and 5. But I managed!!!!

Fun Business

So today I have to head over to the Docs for a, hopefully it will be every 6 months now, a testicular injection of some kind followed by a gym session without any teacher as she is off on holiday for 2 weeks and I just have to practice myself today

Wow/Aargh/How Do I React

Then today me and Timmy headed east to near Swansea where the Swansea Headway group were having a meet up in a centre for archery/shooting. I was rather impressed by the staff there, most of the time they are just dealing with the general public but it did not phase them at all having a bunch of partially disabled folk to deal with

Busy Morning

Then today we nipped to Morrisons first and got some shopping, popper down to Iechyd Da and picked up my organic delivery, came home, put it away, then headed east to the shooting place

Passer By

And *I* met one of my neighbours today, he was walking his dog as I was heading out to the car. He said various things, commented on how he can see that I am no longer in a wheelchair, no longer as fat as a..... and how much he likes the paint job that they have done to my house

Nipped Out

Then we nipped out tonight to Farmfoods and bought some frozen food etc

More Painting

And just about when we were about to go out today the painters arrived. Apparently Timmy had phoned then and said "Missed a bit" so they were just finishing off the job

NOT Swimming

And we didn't go swimming today as it is the summer holidays so potentially loadsa kids there but instead we took one of the little books of exercises to do, and did them. After 4 machines I got on a hand pedaller and pedalled for 1.5km

Royclean

And so for the hour between breakfast time and him going home time it seems that Roy is in cleaning mode.....

RoyGBivving

And I had a day with GBiv, my new MOS today. S'morning we didn't do much then just before lunchtime we popped over to gym and got stuck into bicycling. I did 10km in a time that is about ¾ of the time it was taking me a month ago

Then we got stuck in to trying to sort out my camera but we couldn't find any clues

Oops

But because we were so late in Pile I had a quick bath and went to bed for half an hour later before waking up and cooking dinner

Out, no swimming

Then after lunch me and Timmy had to head to Pile near Cardiff to Sara the Physios newish establishment. We had a good day, I was being much more impressive on the walking machine, at the end of the day I was walking forwards for 3 steps, left for 3 steps, back the way for 3 steps and turning myself round to the right for 3 more steps without having to stop the treadmill going when I changed.

I was also working with FES in my right arm practicing various moves that were impossible last week

Aaah, oops

Woops. I have been taking scissors to them but apparently I should just be pulling up the whole plant

And....

And after the trip to see the venue for Cwtch Freya txted me and said "Still on for tonight?" so we drove into town and walked up 3 flights of stairs to find where she was at her mates house, brought her back here for a handing over of pressies then headed up the road to the Tafarn in Llangain where we had a delicious dinner. With no wine for Freya, she was still hungover from yesterday

Nooneraft Out

And we went out to try and find the site of the Cwtch next month. We were able to find it and tried another route on the way back which is much quicker, A road instead of B road. It took about 45 mins to get there but less than 40 getting back. But no interweb, no phone, nothing up there

A Plan For Tomorrow

And we have an early lunch tomorrow then we are heading out to look at The Big Cwtch Venue as it will be RoyGBiv taking me there in September and he wants to learn the route so we can actually find it on the day

They Like It

And some passers by told RoyGBiv (who was working outside) that they like the subtle new colour that my house is