My bad.....
Attention span.... wait, a shiny penny...... raining again...... wonder if the chickens are in or out...... ooh, Pikachu......
The random thoughts that pass through my head as i type the first line of a new blog entry..... mostly about my wandering mind.
To couple with my wandering mind, i seem to have, for the moment at least, one and a half wandering legs, too!
I'm sort of mobile.... i've managed to walk around the "block" without the aid of crutches, and i spend a good portion of the day (against doctor's orders) without the knee brace clamped around my withering leg.
Surprisingly, the majority of pain and restriction i feel when trying to be ambulant, comes from the foot and ankle of the damaged leg. I imagine this is purely from the lack of exercise those muscles, bones, joints have experienced over the last..... yes, fourteen weeks!!
I have three physio exercises to undertake, every other day..... and although they might seem gentle, like standing on tippy-toes.... i can assure you that they are indeed challenging.... and accompanied with much crunching and grinding in my now arthritic knee joint, make for a decent mountain to summit.
Apart from that....
I've been fishing for a couple of days..... which was great.... to be outdoors...... relaxing..... meditation.
My birthday week next week, and we've a trip organised to Loch Ken, where i will, hopefully, spend some time in water.... either a loch or the sea, i care not which..... but it will be a test of my boundaries. Swimming is good for the leg i presume?
In other news.... when someone knocks at the front door, i can now get there before they are a hundred yards down the road, thinking there's nobody home!
This morning i found a mushroom/fungus on the lawn that i will endeavour to identify..... i suspect the membrane on top has disappeared, hence the strange appearance (looks upside down with gills on top), but let's see..... anyways, here it is:
Thanks for the update on your progress Jason. I am pleased to learn that you have come on in leaps and bounds since you last blogged. Great news.
ReplyDeleteI have the feeling that you might be slipping away from blogging again. Maybe you are getting bored with it. If my premonition is right, I just want to say that it has been nice reconnecting with you after so many years and I hope the weather is kind to you at Loch Ken. I have just located it on a map. Was it named after Ken Barlow... or maybe the Hull City legend - Ken Wagstaff?
i think it's a case of ..... other options are opening up..... i enjoy blogging but as with most things.... if it becomes a chore then it has to sit on the back for a while..... i am sure the novelty of "walking" will soon wear off!!
DeleteDont go swimming with the brace on, it will rust.
ReplyDeletei won't - hardly touching the brace just now
DeleteKeep it for when you have to go into the dole office, so you feel like you fit in.
DeleteSwimming is definitely good for the leg. The couple who lived in our house before us - the ones who had it built in fact - were a GP and his wife. GP had a bad leg and they put in a swimming pool so he could exercise without damaging his leg. So have a great birthday swim. In your birthday suit maybe?
ReplyDeletethat is a vision that nobody needs to deal with!!! thanks :)
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