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Steps forward, steps backwards
Feb. 10th, 2014 04:02 pmLast Friday I managed to get back in the pool for another session of hydrotherapy.
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Medical supervision
Feb. 3rd, 2014 09:39 pmSaw Dr T my shrink today, for a regular 6-month review.
( Read more... )Back in the pool! (Nearly)
Jan. 14th, 2014 04:45 pmSo, the reason I put myself through the horror and torture of buying bathers recently is that my medical focus for the foreseeable future is hydrotherapy.
( Read more... )Shopping for things that cling
Jan. 7th, 2014 11:06 pmThe next treatment goal on which I plan to spend all my medical spoons is hydrotherapy. I don't expect to be back in the pool doing kilometres of laps any time soon, but I'll see if I can do some stretches in warm water that aren't currently possible on dry land. More on that later, but before I can do that I need some bathers (aka swimmers, cossies, swimming costume, bathing costume), as it's many years since I've owned a pair that fit. Once I've got bathers I can cross the bridge of making appointments at the physio and somehow getting my carcass there on some kind of schedule.
( Read more... )A rough guide to 2013
Jan. 4th, 2014 10:36 amI haven't blogged much this year, and indeed have failed to blog many non-trivial things at all (part 2 of our Dunsborough anniversary trip being but one case in point). This is actually informative, because it reflects a year of poor health, even by my standards. Actually my poor health is one of the few things I did document even remotely properly, because of the amount of information I needed to track. This does not please me.
( Read more... )On December 4 1993 Husband and I became Husband and Wife. With a bit of effort all around we remained so for 20 years after that, so we celebrated by getting away for a couple of days down south in Dunsborough, Western Australia. The site was chosen for its proximity to the ocean (for Husband) and to decent granite geology for me. In a perfect intersection of the two, Husband was also keen to see a cave. I'll try and record as much of the trip here as possible; there will be some photos, but not many, because we have this weird tendency towards experiencing life as it happens.
( Read more... )Typically there are two reasons why I don't post here, and given the lack of all but the most mundane of record-keeping these reasons are obviously pretty solid. Either I've done nothing worth talking about, or I'm too tired from doing something to talk about it. So here's a bit of a catch up on the things I would have liked to blog about at the time but didn't. Sans photos, sorry, but that's part of what holds me back.
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The housewives' friend
Oct. 25th, 2013 02:44 amValium. I don't like valium, but I have some in my drug collection as Diazepam and I've just taken 3/4 of a 5mg tablet, and I thought it best I record it here. May as well do something while I wait for it to kick in, and who knows, it might get interesting.
( Read more... )Democracy time
Sep. 2nd, 2013 02:48 pmAfter several lapsed schedulings and a failed physical attempt last week to vote early I managed to do it today, and it's something I'm likely to keep doing in the future.
( Read more... )Vote early, vote often
Aug. 29th, 2013 01:31 pmI find it difficult to stand for any sort of time, so the prospect of waiting in line on polling day (where hopefully things would be running slowly because lots of sensible people were voting below the line) did not appeal. Less so if it were raining – canes and umbrellas do not mix well. I decided to vote early.
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Testing testing
Jul. 29th, 2013 11:35 pmToo tired for the multimedia extravaganza this should be, but hopefully I'll get the basics.
( Read more... )A visit to Dr NF
Jul. 28th, 2013 11:54 amIt seemed to take forever but on Thursday last I finally went to see Dr NF about my Pyroluria diagnosis and hopefully general improvement.
( Read more... )Pyroluria: Testing times
Jun. 4th, 2013 01:51 pmSo today was the day I took myself and my precious precious Pyroluria test paperwork to Clinipath in West Perth, the one place where they collect and process one's wee for shipping to the one lab in Queensland who do the actual testing.
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On Wednesday I thought I'd managed to get a referral from my GP to do a test for Pyroluria, but it turns out that paperwork was useless.
( Read more... )Swancon 2013
Apr. 4th, 2013 05:34 amThis is not so much a con report for Swancon 2013 as a memory dump, so we'll just see what comes out.
( Read more... )The Trip Part 4: Heeeeeeeeey MONA
Mar. 8th, 2013 09:40 pmHusband and I enjoy looking at Art together, so it was on his suggestion that we extended this wedding trip to include a quick dash to Hobart to visit MONA - the Museum of Old and New Art.
( Read more... )In which I continue the tale of our Feb 2013 trip Over East. In the previous post we’d arrived in Hobart for a brief 2 night stay. In a rare moment of economy and risk I’d booked us into a cheap mystery hotel deal via Wotif.com, knowing only that it would be a four star hotel in the Hobart CBD, specifically handy to the MONA ferry departure point. This ended up being the Macquarie Manor Heritage Hotel. At time of booking I made a request for “minimal stairs to room” just in case the unknown hotel ended up being a heritage building with no lift, as per the last lovely but hazardous B&B we stayed in a few years ago. Turns out I was right, sort of.
( Read more... )After the wedding in Adelaide we went to Hobart, primarily to visit MONA. Since we were only staying two nights before jetting back to Melbourne we chose a very cheap Wotif Mystery deal, knowing only that it was a 4 star hotel in the Hobart CBD. Four stars, how bad could it be?
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