Toronto Buskerfest 2010
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I love the Buskerfest. After my OT and PT at the Toronto Rehab yesterday, i told my sister, we should go to the Buskerfest. Well, I'm going walking anyway in the afternoon, might as well add sightseeing to my walking. So after lunch, we went. The thing is we took the wrong streetcar at Broadview subway station. Instead of taking the 504 which passes by King St., then its only 1 block from King and Jarvis St., we could get to the venue of the buskerfest which was in the St. Lawrence Market area, we boarded the 505 which passes by Queen St., which now took us 2 blocks from our destination. Since we couldn't see any sign of activity anywhere near where we took off, we walked towards a church steeple, my sister remembered which was close to the venue. We walked for about 1 hour resting every after 20 minutes because I feel my left leg getting tired. Then my sister said, if we couldn't find the venue, then we're going home straight away, I was kind of devastated because I really wanted to get a glimpse of the festival this year. Finally, we found the venue with the help of the loud music they were playing. Got to see some performances. After one performance, watching it while standing, it was challenging watching a show standing. I got tired so we went home after 1 performance. I still want to go and see other performances, but the main performances start at about 6 pm, i go to sleep around 8pm so can't go and see other performances. I tell myself, I'll go again next year, maybe we'll bring a chair, so i won't be too tired from all the standing.
I am alive so I won't wallow in my situation. I try to enjoy the things I did before the stroke. Like today went to the mall to pick new books to read and get birthday cards for my children. I tried walking up stirs without holding on to the railings, I try to shift my weight to my left leg, just like my PT taught me, I can manage a few steps, only going up though, going down is another matter, I really need to hold on to the railing. Its a bit different, what with bending my left knee at the right moment so that when my right leg goes down a step, the left knee doesn't snap which scares my mom, she thinks I'll fall.
Then comin home, i asked my sister to check the settings on our treadmill, since I've been working on the treadmill at the rehab at 1 km/hr speed, if our treadmill can be set manually, it has the 1km/hr. setting, so i can walk on the treadmill tomorrow after my work. Getting there, got to help myself.
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