Wednesday was, although I didn’t know it at the time, the worst physio session I have had. A super-hot day and my physio didn’t want to work us too hard so we had just over an hour and a quarter of stretching. Looking back I think I would rather have tried an hour on the […]
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Slightly inspirational physio session
May 24, 2012 
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I know, the words inspirational and physio in the same sentence, hard to believe. It has been a hard week with the leg and yet again getting fed up with it. I found out on Monday that I can’t drive with it on, so need to try and sort the car somehow and the camber […]
Continue reading The best physio session ever!
May 3, 2012 6 Comments
Before I tell you about yesterday’s physio session let me quickly bring you up to date with the prosthetic leg situation since last Wednesday. Thursday bruised and couldn’t wear it, Friday was the same as Thursday, Saturday at Twickenham for the Rugby so didn’t wear it, Sunday I couldn’t get in it (nearly launched it […]
Continue reading A marathon day (Part 2)
March 1, 2012 0 Comments
We left Clinic 9 at about 12:10 and I met up with a friend who works at Addenbrooke’s (and fellow Adult Instructor with the Army Cadet Force) for lunch. It was lovely to see her and we managed to have a nice chat, our time was up all too soon though and I had to […]
Continue reading Quite a positive day
February 16, 2012 0 Comments
Nothing massive happened today but there were lots of little positives. I love my prosthetist she is just amazing and I don’t know what I would have done without her. Yet again Lynne came to the rescue, she managed to fit me in while I was over for physio to solve another problem. Following her […]
Continue reading We were put through our paces
February 8, 2012 0 Comments
This afternoon when I got to physio I put my leg on while the others in the group started their 10 minute warm up. With my leg on I started with my warm up but was now about 5 minutes behind the others. My warm up was on the bike again but as before kept […]
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January 25, 2012 4 Comments
Today was my first session in the Advanced class. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, all I was told was that they do more activities. There was only one other person in with me today but apparently there are normally about 4 or 5. Because you tend to be more active around the […]
Continue reading To drive or not to drive?
January 22, 2012 0 Comments
Today a school friend and supporter of this blog asked me a question on Facebook, when I was writing the reply I thought it would make a good topic for tonight’s blog, thank you Alison. She asked me how long they envisaged before I would be able enough to drive again. She also guessed that […]
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