Oh dear I have neglected you.
So for now just the briefest of updates.
Life is good. Life is amazing. I am happy. As usual a few issues with my health but coping. Finding a job is proving to be lots of hard work and no success so far.
The chronic pain is still on hiatus except for when I first wake, but that pain is not enough to wake me so I'm dealing. An old problem with the back locking and causing intense pain on walking has reoccurred. Strangely enough the physio thinks this is because the other problems have receded enough for me to substantially raise my activity level. Unfortunately the musscles in my stomach are still very week and are not capable of adequately supporting the back resulting in core instability and pain and spasms in the back. I have some excercises to do three times a day for the next 6 weeks then if the pain is still persisting the physio will rethink how we approach it.
However I am not allowing this to limit any activities except walking and standing. So most Sundays Mr Cambridge and I go swimming. At the moment we swim 56 lengths a session. Upping that by 2 every few weeks. On Thursday evenings we go to an excercise bootcamp for 45 minutes of strength building and cardio exercise. i try to cycle for at least 15 minutes every day. And occassionally I top up on the pain killers and we do a reasonable length walk together.
Last Sunday we cycled the towpath a goodly stretch of the river Lea. Covering just under 26 miles in all. Yesterday I doxed up on good pain killers and we walked for about 2 hours, up Stanage Edge and across the top of the cliffs, before descending and walking back to our start point along the bottom.
The really strange thing about all this exercise is I am really enjoying it and I can really see the improvements in my fitness. The girl who could barely stagger to the top of the street was laughing and singing as we strode across the top of the cliffs. Jumping occasionally from stone to stone rather that taking the easier path around.
And just in case your starting to think there is little to my life other than exercise I am sewing regularly again. I have made myself a new cape to replace the old tattered one. I am making hand made velcro cuffs. I have several other sewing projects on the go.
And I have finally realised that despite all the people who spent decades telling me to shut up I can sing. And I can sing reasonably well. And I finally screwed up my courage and my confidence and joined Chesterton Choral Society. As if being a female tenor was not unusual enough there is another female tenor in the choir, about my age too :) We are practicing towards the Christmas concert. Yes I'm not only singing but I'm going to sing in public :)
Life is really good. The only minor fly in the ointment being the lack of a job. But I'll keep applying and something is bound to come up eventually.
I do miss my kids but I'm hoping to visit Leicester 5/6th November. And it really helps that my grandson has a habit of nagging his mother to let him phone grandma.
Yes life is pretty amazing.
Life is good. Life is amazing. I am happy. As usual a few issues with my health but coping. Finding a job is proving to be lots of hard work and no success so far.
The chronic pain is still on hiatus except for when I first wake, but that pain is not enough to wake me so I'm dealing. An old problem with the back locking and causing intense pain on walking has reoccurred. Strangely enough the physio thinks this is because the other problems have receded enough for me to substantially raise my activity level. Unfortunately the musscles in my stomach are still very week and are not capable of adequately supporting the back resulting in core instability and pain and spasms in the back. I have some excercises to do three times a day for the next 6 weeks then if the pain is still persisting the physio will rethink how we approach it.
However I am not allowing this to limit any activities except walking and standing. So most Sundays Mr Cambridge and I go swimming. At the moment we swim 56 lengths a session. Upping that by 2 every few weeks. On Thursday evenings we go to an excercise bootcamp for 45 minutes of strength building and cardio exercise. i try to cycle for at least 15 minutes every day. And occassionally I top up on the pain killers and we do a reasonable length walk together.
Last Sunday we cycled the towpath a goodly stretch of the river Lea. Covering just under 26 miles in all. Yesterday I doxed up on good pain killers and we walked for about 2 hours, up Stanage Edge and across the top of the cliffs, before descending and walking back to our start point along the bottom.
The really strange thing about all this exercise is I am really enjoying it and I can really see the improvements in my fitness. The girl who could barely stagger to the top of the street was laughing and singing as we strode across the top of the cliffs. Jumping occasionally from stone to stone rather that taking the easier path around.
And just in case your starting to think there is little to my life other than exercise I am sewing regularly again. I have made myself a new cape to replace the old tattered one. I am making hand made velcro cuffs. I have several other sewing projects on the go.
And I have finally realised that despite all the people who spent decades telling me to shut up I can sing. And I can sing reasonably well. And I finally screwed up my courage and my confidence and joined Chesterton Choral Society. As if being a female tenor was not unusual enough there is another female tenor in the choir, about my age too :) We are practicing towards the Christmas concert. Yes I'm not only singing but I'm going to sing in public :)
Life is really good. The only minor fly in the ointment being the lack of a job. But I'll keep applying and something is bound to come up eventually.
I do miss my kids but I'm hoping to visit Leicester 5/6th November. And it really helps that my grandson has a habit of nagging his mother to let him phone grandma.
Yes life is pretty amazing.