You will be pleased to know that I am in marginally less pain and today was a swim day. I just want to wax lyrical about swimming for a moment. Picture this, it is painful and slow getting changed, I hobble down the dangerous (for me) poolside, I over balance as I take my flip flops off but I grip on to the rail specially there for us wobbly people. As I began my descent into the water, a woman called over to me to remind me that it was slippy on the steps (as she hurried past so that she could get a place in the pool before me) but as I moved down the steps and I began walking across the shallow water towards the deeper pool, the wobbly, disabled person started to disappear.
I found a spot in the busy lanes and began swimming. Before long, I was lapping the other woman, who had clearly seen me as doddery – WRONG eh! I was already a different person. I was free in the water, I could move with little to no pain (the shoulder and knee still nagged a little). I disappeared into the rhythm of my breathing, I could run backwards and forwards, I was the old me, just for 25mins. For the record, this week I am on swim breast stroke for 10 lengths, run forwards and backwards for 10 lengths, I repeat the 10 lengths swim and then finish off with 5 lengths running. I can’t do front crawl at the moment (shoulder not playing) and the knees have to be managed with the breast stroke leg kick but mostly I am amazed with the progress I have made since the beginning of January.
On finishing my swim, I return to ‘disabled Kay’ as I make the return journey to my flip flops. I then took myself off to the sauna for 20mins allowing me some meditation time – obs the opportunity depends on whether I encounter the ‘Bros’ (see previous diary entry), which I didn’t today. I should perhaps note here that I really love a cold shower after the sauna but I have suspended this element of my ‘treatment’ for now. I think it is causing me cramping/ tension in my piriformis muscle (the muscle hugging my sciatic nerve because it obviously loves it so much) that I have just spent 40mins trying to unclamp.
Not much else to report today. I cooked some Kale and ended a twenty one and a half hour fast. This wasn’t planned, the fast that is, but it was how the day fell, in the end. Oh – the physios from the hospital have phoned to book me in. Only another 30 days to go. I don’t suppose I should complain, I have only had the shoulder issue for 10 months, no need to hurry any treatment is there?