Puff Taker

And the postman brought me a new "puff taker" so I can measure my lung capacity twice a day like I am supposed to but haven't been able to for a week and a bit as the last puffer broke

Sam

Then we spoke to Sam, who is trying to arrange a trip for me and 1 MOS to meet him, Emma and hopefully Toby and Freya in the midlands at her parents house so I can meet them too. (In-laws soon????)

But if my 3 kids make it it will be a bit special

"Tell timmy That weekend is fine to visit :) (the 5th of november)..... Emma says there is a travelodge or premier Inn nearby"

What A Day

So first of all today me and Timmy went to gym and I did another 10km cycle. I was f***ing knackered afterwards and thought it must have been the fastest yet but Timmy sez it was roughly the same time as a fortnight ago. It was about 42 minutes, it used to take me an hour to do that distance

Then after we came back I asked Timmy about removing the extra chair from the kitchen, he said "Yes" and headed towards the back door. I said "No" and did it myself, out the door, down 2 steps then across to the garage

Fetching

Then first thing s'morning we had to pop to Iechyd Da to pick up my veg. We didn't need to do the usual first thing as we popped to a Morrison's and got the rest of my weeks shopping last night

'Wimming

So we went to the Aqua
Aerobics class s'afternoon and my reaction is kind of strange. Just every-fsking-thing about my fitness seems better than it was last week. Doing the  "holding onto the side and kicking behind you" I seem much more able to hold on with my right had too. All the flexibility in my right arm (while still rubbish compared with my left arm) just seems so much better/more useful than even last weeks

Joe's Garage

Lordy, I was searching for a song on that interweb and it turned out it was off Frank Zappa's album Joe's Garage which was a bit of a favourite of mine when I was a teenager. Nowadays after I clicked "Play" for one track it is playing the rest one after another

And I know most of the words still.....

Cycling

So me and RoyGBiv headed to gym s'morning and got stuck into a 10km cycle. No idea how long it took as I pressed "Pause" half way thru and took too long(1) before I came back on so it stopped. But I think I  was going faster today, my average speed was more than 50 rpm

(1) OK, I paused and was looking thru my bumbag for the headphones for the radio on my phone so I could listen to summat. Later I found them in my bedside drawer

Walking Properly

After I saw Sara the Physio last week and she said "I am leaning over when I walk" because I have learned to walk once more using my stick in my left hand whereas traditionally it should be in my right hand...... Anyway s'morning I was practicing walking without my stick and properly putting the weight half and half on both feet. Now it is really difficult to do but practice.... etc.....

So walking, my right leg just goes forward properly etc until that step has finished. Then as I move my left leg I need to aim about 10 degrees to the right with my bodyweight so the left leg comes properly forward. I can do it, my left foot just touches down silently, it is no longer kind of rushing in an unbalanced way.

This is so difficult after learning to walk again in the wrong style and continuing to do so for so long, but practice a few steps at a time, like I used to have to practice walking at all. That has become so easy straightforward (link to show how) so just keep practicing every day

Swimless Day

So this week it is a "don't go swimming" week as we are heading to the Headway meeting in Swansea

Which actually wasn't too bad. We had a couple of conversations including one with a chap who was attacked in Neath, someone punched and kicked him while he was down and he suffered his ABI.

Anyway, conversations aside we got stuck into a game of Rummikub. We played 3 games. One each was won by the two ABI sufferers who we were playing and 1 was one by GGtGG. Only one player didn't win a single game....

Oot For A Walk

So s'morning me and RoyGBiv went out for a walk, just stepped out the front door, onto the path that runs down, onto the road and back up and round. It was just the walk that I wouldn't have been able to manage without sitting on a garden wall a few months ago. Now walking is a bit straightforward

No Beer

And I had planned to go to the Carmarthen Drink More Beer festival tonight but cried off as it seems a bit need to pay attention walking about on whatever surface after dark

Birdfood

So we went to town s'morning to pick up more birdfood for outside and it just made me think wow. For a start we parked miles away from the shop in the free space and on the way to the shop we walked all around another shop looking for summat different, then we walked all around the birdfood shop first, looking for summat else again. A little while ago I would have had to sit down every few mins for a rest whereas now just walking seems easy

Samless

Then Sam txted me last night and said the gym class for today had to be canceled as there was no room at gym this week

I was nearly crying but I will have to bear with it until next week

Young And Very Beautiful

Then Sara Bailey who is now to he known as 'the young and beautiful lady' after I told her about Timmy's suggestion for a difference that she might be happier with than "the little old lady" which she had been known as, and she did all kinds of holding my throat while I was eating etc. It went well, I think she is satisfied with my progress

To Debenhams To Buy A Fat..... no, slimmer

Then we popped into the new Debenhams in town to buy another few pairs of smaller trews, we were allowed to use the changing room etc today and they had a bigger room that the 2 of us could work in

First Tings

So first things first s'morning we headed to the doctor's and got my 'scripts, more asthma inhaler, more cream for my chest and legs and lastly more bathing cream for my armpits. Phew, it was all on the chemist next door etc

Lordy

Then I was getting a bit fed up with the BT Yahoo mail server kind of looking on the webpage to see email but we couldn't think of any email progs that would work.

But then I thought of the new Windows 10 email client thats built into my PC

Just good lord, it works, it imported all the old emails I had etc, it let me set up the 2 other accounts that I have that I haven't been able to use for some months, just wow

Footwear Crisis

But when we were putting on my trainers to head to gym one of the tie it here bits came off, ruining them. We kind of tied it round the back and lasted through my cycle but then after lunch we headed down town and bought some new trainers. I have just been wearing them for 2 or 3 hours and they feel comfortable and useful, they bend in the right places etc

Bicycling Madness

So I went to gym and got on a bike. 10km I did, and again it was faster than ever. I wasn't going quite as fast as I used to do when I was doing the 30sec speed bursts but it wasn't that far down. I am so much fitter than I was a few months ago.

Middle Hotness

And the central heating had switched itself on s'morning which cheers me up slightly. It works, no input from me etc