So I’ve got the time and comittment right now to blog daily, once I get back to work I’ll see how I go.

Today was a lot more layed back, I’ve been pushing myself fairly hard and I am meant to be taking it easy.

I spent the morning resting at home and the only two things I needed to do this afternoon  was have a massage and see my GP.

For massage I’m quite particular about what I like and I use a good friends business Body Line Health Internatinal, run by my long term friend Holly Hicks.

Holly is away this week at a conference in Melbourne and so one of her new staff Amy filled in. Wow what a job she did, I had a massage only two days ago but there are still parts of me that are insandly tight. Amy did an amazing job and found a new way to release pressure out of some muscle groups. What really surprised me is the referral down various limbs. I suspect I’ll be seing more of Amy in the future.

One thing I’ve not mentioned is at my last physio consult I was taught how to safely use a chair as a prop to get onto the floor safely and return. My ankle is actually a lot better than it has been, however it is still a little unstable. I certannly can not fully weight bare on it right now.

So trying to manage the “normal way” is actually dumb, my physio showed me a way using my upper body strength to no put any weight on the injured limb.

This was really cool as I am always keen to ensure I do things safely.

Today I wanted to re-engage an exercise physiogist. While I do work with three great PTs (yes I’m a gluton for punishiment) I wanted to bring in yet another great mind. I have consulted with him previously and I look forward to his input.

The E.P last saw me when I was a lot larger so he will know that I’ve been doing good 🙂

The GP clinic I use dosn’t take appointments, I called this morning to ensure my doctor was working and he was until 5pm

Sadly I forgot to ring to check he was still working so when we arrived at 3:45 he had already gone, bugger! Will try again tomorrow morning.

I’ve had bandaging on continously since surgery and I’m ready to have it changed, tomorrow will be the day!

I’ve finally got some addtional home health care products to me it easier for me to rest. The first is a bed cradle the second is a pillow support, meaning I can now comfortably sit in bed and not have the bedding touch my foot which causes discomfort, plus I now get support on my back.

There are two things I could have done with last week, oh well you learn.

Got a long physio consult tomorrow that should smart 🙂 It’s an in joke with my Physio, I gave her a copy of a NWB survival checklist and it said you had to be careful when it came to medical appointments as they tend to “smart” 🙂 so now we use it in both contexts.

In the past twenty four hours I’ve sent two significant thank you emails, they have been well recieved and I think it’s always nice to take a moment and let people know the impact they are having on peoples life.

The weather today is terrible, thankfully I missed getting caught in it.

Time for me to do my last round of exercises and iceing then it’s off to bed.

I have a new ice therapy device being delivered tomorrow, look forward to trying it. It was created by a gold medal winning olympic aerial skiier, be nice to get some decent impact.

I was about to close this blog post but realised I hadn’t kept within the topic of the post.

Guess I really should address that before I sign off.

At the moment I’m spending a lot of time and money on rehab, work have been very understanding about this who process but there comes a point where you have to call it.

So I have just over a week of full time rehab available to me and I should be work ready. So while i have full time rehab available i’m making the most of it.

Apart from one exception I have worked with all the health care professionals in recent time and they are familar with where I’m at. It makes my rehab very easy. I’m getting better at doing my exercise but also resting to.

If you get it wrong you cause yourself literally a world of pain, get it right and it is poetery in motion.

Even though my ablity to exercise my ankle changes on a daily bases I’m getting better at listening to my body and working out where it is at.

It’s this point you get to that I describe as poetery, everything is in harmeony and the world in a happier place (or should be)

Looking forward to tomorrow, sorting out some things with my GP and a good review to come with my Physio.

Keep warm it’s cold and wet out there!