Holidays and new surgery/therapy - general catch up
Hi All I've been so slack with the blog. I meant to update you all on my holiday over a month ago But life got crazy busy. So here's a general catch up.
I had a 3 week holiday in July that was more like 4 weeks by the time you add in travel time etc. ( it's a 22 hour flight with a stop in LA to change plane and you cross the date line so you lose a day coming back, although you gain a day on the way over so I left on 4th July and arrived on 4th July.) On arrival in NY NY we had 10 days "touring" staying in a boutique hotel in Brooklyn and exploring the city. We did a huge range of activities as well as ordinary sight seeing. The tour organiser is a start up company run in partnership by one of my gym trainers. it's called "Urban Heartbeat". They offer active travel experiences. So we walked all over NYC as well as going to gyms and dance classes etc. It was stunning. At the end of the 10 days I had another 2 days of personal sight seeing which I used up in the museums and galleries we hadn't already been to. I then got on a cruise ship "Norwegian Breakaway" for a 7 day trip out to Bermuda and back to NY. I love cruise ships and I spent most of the cruise time in the Hot Spa area where you pay extra to get access to spa pools, sauna, steam room etc. I also treated myself to a seaweed wrap and some massage. The ship docked 3 nights in Kings Landing and I went out snorkeling and took a Segway tour around the settlement.
On return to NY I had 2 more days exploring before getting back on the plane. I took myself to see Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic Theatre, which was incredible I hadn't seen it live before even though I'm familiar with the music and the story. I also did a back stage tour of Radio City Music Hall, again it's worth the walking involved.
Once I ran the numbers from my activity monitor for July I had averaged 9 kms walking each day. So I was very proud of myself as I'd only had 2 days of rest time other than the cruising days.
I had a nasty fall in the aeroplane on the way home so I had some truly spectacular bruises for 2 weeks after I got home.
On getting home I went to see my surgeon as we'd done a gait analysis test in early May and the results had come through just before I left for NY. Overall he is very happy with the outcome of last years surgery, as am I. However I've been having a lot of problems with curly/cramping toes and botox treatment has only been partially successful so he offered to try some surgery on the long toe flexors and we scheduled that for 2 weeks later. It's just a day procedure although it does involve a general anesthetic.
Then the week the surgery was scheduled I had a really bad case of gastroenteritis so the surgery was postponed until last Tuesday. I see him again tomorrow for review and hopefully removal of the stitches. He told me I'd be walking on it immediately but I only half believed him, turns out he was right. I haven't needed any of the strong pain relief drugs I was sent home with and there's only slight discomfort now when I walk down stairs as it stretches the affected muscles. I'm expecting to be back to full training next week.
Along with the surgery I've had upper limb botox again and I'm doing an 8 week OT program with it to try and get more useful shoulder/arm movement. I had my first session for that today. was supposed to be 1 hour but I was with her for at least 90 minutes, this is going to be interesting I haven't done specific upper limb therapy for over 5 years now.
The other news in my life is that one of my nieces got married the first weekend of September and her new father in law is making "friendship" overtures. It's a funny feeling to be courted I've been single for so long that I'm not sure what I think about it. He seems a nice man and has been separated from Jame's mother for many years, the wedding and after party was the first time I'd met Jame's parents. I'm still deciding what I think so for the moment I'm just keeping the conversation open.
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