Got my new chair, mixed blessings there. It drives well though the mud I brought inside made me unpopular. The cleaners told me off, there was a trail of mud right down the ward! It is higher though, and when I sit I can't sit back as far. Where I sit myself down is where I stay at rehab (at home the carers re position me as I can't do that well yet) and sitting badly on the coccyx I broke several years ago is painful and getting me down. Wednesday it overwhelmed me and I did say but only 2 of around 10 nurses took note!

Productive week for speech and physio. Physio saw me walking with help using parallel bars. I lack the oomph to get myself standing, my back and torso is weak. Once standing I am pretty good. To work on it I stood in front of a therapist's bed, leaned on my elbows and did squat thrusts, finishing with straightening not using my arms. That went well so we repeated several times and will do it again too.

Frustrating is the Occupational Therapy. I consider it a waste of time to show I can wash and make a coffee, after all for nearly a year I have done them! Work on my arm is very worthwhile though. Driving around in the wheelchair I was assessed as ok to have is not; they want to be sure I can cope but the assessment served that purpose! Oh dear, I'm turning into a grumpy old woman at the ripe old age of 40. Actually, my end of the ward was told off for laughing too loudly one night!