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Operation ‘Salad Bar’

Today was the second day (every Thursday for 6 weeks) of the Community Grant Programme at OWR (Operation Warriors Return). I felt a little stiff after yesterday’s physio session but not half as bad as I thought I was going too, I did however, feel really tired when it was time to haul myself out […]

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Advanced Physio

  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 […]

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Hospital visit

This morning the stump was still as swollen as it was yesterday but I am sure it will start going down soon. My Nan has been in hospital for a little over 2 weeks now and although my Mum and Dad have been down a couple of times I have not yet seen her. She […]

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A problem visiting others

Yesterday we went to see some family friends for the day. When we were arranging the visit we asked them if they could measure the width of the doors so we could see if I could use the wheelchair there. Mum and Dad had been to their bungalow before but weren’t sure if I would […]

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Start of a course

I have no idea what was the matter with me today but my balance was shocking. I lost count of the amount of near misses I had that could quite easily have resulted in falls, both indoors and outdoors. I count myself really lucky today but I need to get a grip of this as […]

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Medication withdrawal plan

Today didn’t get off to the best start as I had an unplanned close inspection of the floor this morning. No damage done and by far the least painful of the three fall’s so far. I, of course, was not being that careful and it was totally my own fault, well the fact no one […]

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Like walking on a razor blade

I have to say that I was on quite a high when I left physio on Friday, all was good. I had been given official conformation that I could use my sticks instead of crutches when using my prosthesis. Encouraged to put my leg on first thing in the morning and wear it till after […]

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I really don’t want to do that again

Having put on more weight, which is now bordering on depressive, and being exceptionally unfit I need to do more exercise. I really want to go swimming but had to order another swimsuit and waiting for it to arrive. In the meantime the only other thing I could think of doing is go out in […]

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