Hi everyone, how is everyone keeping? I’ve been quite pleased with the last few weeks since the last time I wrote anything. I set myself a goal to try and get walking a bit more again although not adventuring out just on the treadmill and despite making great progress from when I started, it has all been incredibly painful. I’ve battled through it each time though and with doing so but not overdoing it I feel I have made a lot of progress. I’m able to manage for longer and faster than I had been expecting although in the real world I still struggle.
Even just a walk to the shop is a challenge and sore, but I am able to do it just not comfortably. There are days that are a real struggle and things are just impossible to do but I haven’t been annoyed by them, the progress made on the other days makes up for it and when I think back about the week and what I could do at the start compared to then I always seem to have made significant progress.
I still think I’m only about 60% if even that, and I don’t think I’ll make much more progress than that, the only thing I can really hope for is everything to be less painful, I don’t think I’ll be able to get much better physically but we’ll see, I always seem to surprise myself.
Apart from TV and reading I’ve been able to manage a few good drives, not really having anything in mind but just picking a direction and driving. I really enjoy driving, it gives me a sense of freedom while just sitting about. I do hope to continue that and see new places, and even visit the places I’ve been before as I went on a trip around the Ard’s Peninsula for the first time in nearly 4 years and there were plenty of changes making it worthwhile to check up again.
Apart from the aches and pains other things seem to have settled, my tummy has just got better as quick as it got bad, I’m still mindful of what I’m eating, more so the portion sizes but it does seem to have settled again and will hopefully stay that way. If that wasn’t the case I wouldn’t have had the confidence to go for the drives.
It’s been hopefully the start of a bit of normality or at least finding a bit of a new normality to be able to enjoy things again rather than sitting around all the time waiting to get better.