It may be my 1st Birthday as an amputee but in real money I am 40 today. Apparently, so the saying goes, life begins at 40 and I would like to think that’s true. Because I was supposed to be on Annual Camp for my Birthday I was a bit worried about it, nothing to […]
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Update and camp prep
July 18, 2012 
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Unusually I have been doing what I was told and taking things easy, which is why the blog has been quiet, so it’s time for an update on where I am right now. As instructed I didn’t wear my prosthetic leg for just over 5 days while taking anti-inflammatories. Last Sunday I tried my leg […]
Continue reading More surgery is a real probability
July 11, 2012 2 Comments
Yes you read the title right and can you believe it! On Monday I saw my Rehab Consultant’s Registrar, I had not met him before but he was nice and explained things well. I explained that following my surgery I got severe cramp and spasms which I expected as the muscles had been rebuilt. This […]
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June 10, 2012 0 Comments
It’s all been rather quiet and I’ve mainly been recovering from the physio session from hell the other week. Yes it really has taken that long for my back and knee to recover and I can’t believe all that pain came from stretching exercises. Of course I did my patriotic bit and watched the Jubilee […]
Continue reading I really regret doing that
June 1, 2012 0 Comments
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 […]
Continue reading A walk in the real world
May 25, 2012 0 Comments
Off the back of the ‘inspiring’ physio session on Wednesday, yesterday gave me the opportunity to go out with my prosthetic leg on. Don’t get too excited by this news, it was only to a local Supermarket. I was a little sore/aching from yesterday but thankfully it only took a couple of attempts to get […]
Continue reading A better day
May 7, 2012 0 Comments
Yesterday was tough and I have to admit I had a blip in the afternoon. We had been out for a drive over the Black Mountains, which were stunning, but the weather was not great for photography. We went by some reservoirs looking for places to stop and get some photos and the more we […]
Continue reading A new folding wheelchair
May 1, 2012 0 Comments
This morning involved a trip across to Peterborough at the Mobility Aids Centre to pick up my wheelchair, an Ottobock Motus CS. It was the first time I had seen it in the colour I ordered and it looked even better than I imagined. I knew that this wheelchair was heavier and would be harder […]
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