Veg Box and Exercise Class

Yesterday I resumed my organic vegetable box delivery, which I had cancelled for the Christmas and New Year season as I was away so much of the time.

Yesterday’s delivery brought potatoes, carrots and onions plus a cauliflower, a Savoy cabbage, 2 leeks and 3 beetroot. The fruit was 2 oranges, 2 apples, 2 bananas and a pear.

Fridge all sorted out and salad drawer cleaned and all put away.

I really ought to take the (somewhat full) bin bag along to the refuse room, but I am hoping to make it last till Thursday when my cleaners come.

Lazy, moi?

This morning was my third pulmonary exercise class. The programmes are individually tailored to our needs - in my case I need to concentrate on my legs as I cannot get up from a chair without using my arms to push up and I have difficulty on steps.

I am pleased to report that the exercise bike was increased to a resistance of 4 and I managed 5 minutes instead of the 4 minutes at resistance of 3.

It was quite cold when I left (1.5 deegrees), but fortunately the ice on the windscreen was almost melted and a quick flip of the wipers cleared it. On the way, the sun was very bright, but low in the sky - as I drove down the slip road to the motorway. it suddenly shone right onto my offside wing mirror, meaning I could not see the traffic coming up on the motorway. Fortunately at the last moment the angle changed and I had good visibility.

Endorphins

This morning saw my second time at the pulmonary rehabilitation classes. The physiotherapist has noted that my biggest problem is my leg, and more my left leg (probably a result of a stroke), so she is concentrating on that as well as the other respiratory exercises. I am managing to increase the time or the weight or the resistance (on the bike) for almost every exercise, which feels good.

The weather today is foul with wind and rain making what should be an almost balmy 7 degrees celsius feel really cold and horrible. Still, better than ice or snow for the sixteen mile round trip to my class. I should have done a small shop on my way home to return some light bulbs as I got the wrong ones. However they, and the receipt, are in the car so I can do it next time (hopefully).

Not long after I got home the man arrived from the security firm to install the base unit and give me my new pendant alarm.

After going through all the small print - by the way, how many people take the trouble to read the small print on-line rather than just tick the box that says you have read and agreed them - we tested the base unit and the pendant.

I then checked that my telephone worked for both incoming and outgoing calls and that the internet connection worked too.

I was glad to get a cup of tea in the lounge after all that.

Classes

This morning was the first of 16 respiratory rehabilitation classes (twice a week for 8 weeks), led by a Senior Physiotherapist helped by an Assistant. The classes are held in a near by small town, which I had, in fact, never visited before. However the directions were good.

Half an hour prior to the class I met with the Senior Physiotherapist to fill in a quick assessment form. This will be used to ascertain how much improvement has beeen achieved over the eight weeks.

There are ten of us in the group of varying ages and all shapes and sizes. I now feel as though I have been run over by a truck, so I must have done some good.

As I have recently bought a flat screen tv with built in DVD player, I came home to receive the usual threatening letter from TV licensing. Here we go again........