3 months in health

[ailbhe]

It's three months since I last posted about my health.

I'm still getting dressed every day. I still have 4h/wk cleaners. I can walk most of a mile without a stick more than half the days. Hayfever is really kicking my butt. The Wii Fit says I'm obese and I am often inflated -- swollen joints and so on -- so I've gone up a clothes size again. I can't read much but I can read *some* which is more than I could a while ago.

I'm doing various things specifically to improve or slow deterioration of my health. I'm tracking my physical activity, and it's up from 2k steps to 3.5k steps most days without collapse; 10k still means significant collapse, and more than that means days and days of recovery. But I can see improvement. Which is good, because my arms were being murdered by the crutches.

I think my abdominal muscles are the thing I am missing most at the moment; while relying on crutches I lost them, and they're difficult to get back without sturdy hip joints. But when I *can* use them they work wonders for my ability to hold myself upright and walk.

I can't make a GP appt because the chances of being able to get there AND have the cognitive ability to articulate my needs are so slight. But I had a dentist appt and I'm fine there. If I continue to improve I can see a GP at the end of the summer, hopefully.

I can no longer tell whether I'm in constant pain or not. I'm definitely in almost constant discomfort, because bits of me are non-functional. Especially the typing bits.

I think now Rob's snoring is beginning to be under control again it might help; I definitely need better rest.

Whalesong and homeopathy time, I think.

Comments

[kalmn]

It helps me sometimes if I make an appointment a ways out and then make notes about what I want to say.

Also, my dad swears by breathe right strips to help with snoring.

[ailbhe]

The particular brand seems to make a huge difference.

[sfred]

I hope things continue to improve.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Hey, ti's good to hear from you and to hear you're doing so well!

[the-changeling.livejournal.com]

It's good you are improving. It's bad that you're too ill to attend the GP.

Do you think you could smuggle down your "i can't use up a GP's time like that." impulses and phone for a GP to visit you?

That's what visits are for, and they do them every day the surgery is open as a matter of routine. It doesn't have to be an emergency. It can simply be that you are too ill to get to the surgery.

Please try this!

Lovely to hear from you. :-)

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that things are moving in the right direction, if more slowly than would be ideal.