Well I’m still doing the exercises the physio gave me
for my shoulder; more or less every couple of hours. Is it getting better?
Probably though it doesn’t always feel it. I am now getting to the point where
while not quite stir-crazy, I do feel the need to get out occasionally, and not
just to another doctor’s appointment. So it is I find myself wrapping up warm
on Thursday afternoon and going for a walk. Now normally I walk fairly briskly,
but today with my arm still in a sling and wanting to prolong my time outdoors
I walk decidedly slowly. I manage an hour’s walking, during which I enjoy
crunching through autumns leaves on the ground, and the sight of the now mostly
bare trees. It still amazes me how many people walk around with their heads
down never looking up to see what’s above. Be it architecture in cities or
nature in the countryside. Is this a metaphor for modern living? Sorry for
asking, I really must get out more.
I visit the nurse again who is due to take my stitches
out, if they haven’t dissolved. This is not as uncomfortable as I expect, but
just as I’m about to escape she says I’m entitled to a flu jab, plus a one-off
jab to cover pneumonia, septicaemia and one strain of meningitis (at least I
think that’s right). On asking if I would need to make an appointment, because
to be honest I probably wouldn’t have bothered, she said no she could do them,
there and then. So thinking in for a penny. in for a pound, I said fair enough,
let’s do it. So that was two jabs, one in each arm. Two minutes and later I’m
walking out fully immunised. Slight side effect however, in that my good arm
now hurts. So from having one good arm and one recovering, I now have two
recovering. Oh well back to the exercises, surely it can’t hurt much more?
Yours taking one step forward and two steps back.
Jay
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