In My Book

So at the minute I am about ⅔ of the way through The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and I am rather enjoying it. But today I was reading and came upon a quote

And that is the same quote I have on the first page of my website, my home page

WTF#2

So I woke up s'morning, looked at my watch, thought it said 9.30am, thought "WTF?", put my top on, shoes on etc, got up, walked to the loo, a voice from the next room said "What are u doing, it's only half past 5"...

WTF?

WTF

And I was watching a program about driverless cars tonight, dunno what to say..... but I was impressed

No Hibernating

So I was looking at a way of switching my PC to not "hibernate", just "sleep" mode. So I investigated and found right click on START and goto COMMAND PROMPT. But it didn't work. What was going on? Ah, it didn't say COMMAND PROMPT, it said "COMMAND PROMPT (Admin)" which I had missed yesterday. Did what it said and my PC is behaving more like I wannit to

Still Improving

And today when I was cooking 2 dinners at once (one in the pan until tomorrow) I was hopping backwards and forwards around the kitchen without my walk stick and without holding on to owt to balance, just walking about like a proper person

Shirt

And today I am wearing a lumberjack shirt kind of thing over my T shirt. I noticed today when taking it off (as I was overheated) that I used to avoid the lumberjack shirts as they had buttons instead of a zip, which were hard to do up etc. Yes, they are still difficult but 10 times easier than 6 months ago as my hands are becoming so much more useful

Art For Arts Sake

So me and MM headed into town early and called into the Oriel Art Gallery in Carmarthen. It was excellent, some beautiful work. The assistant was talking with me about the art and he went into the back room and fetched another book to show me pictures relevant to our conversation. There were another 2 art galleries opposite, across the road, but we decided to head off round town for a walk and will call in next weekend to look at these 2 galleries

(Sigh)Friday(/S)

So after an early lunch we headed gymwards, but Sam wasn't there this week, it was another teacher who used to teach my ages ago. And she was commenting on how much better I am doing these days, which was nice.

But also marginally upsetting, if I am being unusual as I am getting better what does that say about all the other members of the class?

Iechyd Down Diddly

Good lord, but there didn't seem that many folk there at the beginning but by lord there were loadsa muso's, poets etc, all kinds of entertaining folk.

One woman read a poem which talked about "being able to walk faster" or somesuch so I went over to her table and said I felt that poem was aimed at me as I had been in a wheelchair for ages, learned to walk slowly, got faster every week....., she said "Stroke?", I said "No, ABI" and she said "Aargh, my daughter suffered a Brain Injury 5 years ago" and we talked for ages filling each other in on our stories. They now run a business together, despite her daughters mental issues

Bicycle Races

So here I am cycling away at gym. The sooner we finish today's 10km the sooner we can go home for lunch

Bother. Yes I finished somewhat later and just slumped panting etc for some time afterwards, no lunch yet!!

Then s'evening we are heading out to another Caffi Iechyd Da do, in town

This Used To Be So Hard

So flushing the right hand sided flush lever on the loo used to be so hard, I used to have to reach across with my left hand

Used to be difficult......

Fill Up The Freezer

Then after dinner tonight we popped out to Farmfoods to top up the freezer. The only issue we had is they no longer sell any Sweet Potato Frozen Chips but that was strictly a top up rather than needing some

Oh What Fun We Had

So we are heading to the Aqua Aerobics class in a bit.

My heart is full of joy.....

Sarcasm doesn't really suit me, does it....... 

Well that was fun wasn't it

RHS

So today I took some photos only using my right hand to operate buttons etc, when I stuck up the webpage to that effect I noticed about a third of a screen below that one was one saying "My right hand is getting better"

So yes, like proof that it is kind of thing......

Random Pics but SO Important

So today I took some random pics out of the car using my right hand. Like I used to do before my accident but I haven't been able to do since 2003.

It isn't very important pics but being able to use my right hand in this fashion is important

Pyle

So we are off to see Sara the Physio at Pyle s'afternoon....... I hope she will be impressed with my improvements but I am sure she will push me some more

And we are on the way now, nearly reached the M4

And no, shock to the system, it wasn't Sara but a physio called Rhyan who was doing strange stuff with my right arm, attaching it to a FES style device, an AvivaStim,  and wriggling it, and I could do a bit of wriggling by myself. Lordy, even by the end of the session I could feel an improvement, but there is still a long way to go

WTF?

So we headed down to a Headway Swansea meeting and played a 4 person game of placing numbers with various other BI'd people

As ever I thought "WTF are we here for?" but as ever it was marginally better than going to gym

MOT

So we are sitting in Cawdor Cars awaiting for the MOT test to be done. They said I need to order my repeat car so they will have it in stock by September. We looked at 2 smaller and we liked both and I could manage.

A Mocha my favourite one is called

Well an hour and a quarter and they gave us the keys back and said "Tara". So we came home, quick lunch then we are off to a Headway Swansea meeting

Not Today

And there is no noise coming from my devices today

Telly

And I watched this weeks Dr Who again and what can I say, it has attracted my interest in so many ways......