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PROGRESS

I've been for a walk!!!

I know, such a trivial thing, but it's a big thing to me!

When I'm pottering around the house I'm pretty much okay now - I can't do stairs properly yet and until I can do stairs properly I can't think about driving, but other than that I cope fine around the house. I'm still using support bandages and probably will be for a while yet.

I've been out twice over the weekend, still taking my crutches with me though.

But today I have a devil-may-care attitude and I decided to try and go out for a walk, minus the crutches. I planned it in my head, there's a little circuit that I can do which I reckoned would take me maybe fifteen minutes at a slow pace - seeing as all I can do is a slow pace. So off I went.

I've discovered that uphill is a little problematic, as is any area where the ground is uneven or has a sideways slope. Downhill is fine. Yes, admittedly there was some pain but it was bearable.

But I'm back and it took me only eleven minutes.

So I'm going to try and do this every day and see how I get on, there's a couple of other routes I can walk as well to build things up slowly and gradually until I get back to normal. I'm on my way!