Last day at UPA

The start of my last day at this wonderful place UPA in Druskininkai I have not slept well with a significant increase in leg pain overnight. One thing I forgot to mention in earlier blogs is that the controls of the electric beds in UPA may be well hidden under the frame of the bed. So for your comfort do get used to how the bed moves and helps with your pain levels.

The morning sky is occluded for the first time since being here and it is a lot cooler. I went down and had breakfast with Declan as he prepared to leave UPA later today. It turns out that his flight to Belfast is not much earlier than mine tomorrow morning but I am not leaving till 06:00 tomorrow.

After my polarised light treatment at 11:00 I relaxed with a cappuccino sitting outside the restaurant while waiting to go to physiotherapy and catching up with emails and messages.

Today has gone quickly and although pain levels have been a bit higher than recently I have enjoyed the sessions today. In the Physio session Karolius worked me pretty intensively. After Greta had told me to use the lift on the way down to the Gym! She and Karolius had a good bit of banter before we got

stuck into his extensive exercise regime. Cryo was a welcome session straight after physio and then after lunch the massage was a great way to end my rehab here; he worked on my back and then some very gentle manipulation of my still very bruised leg. I am now chilling with a beer having paid my bill and got my online boarding pass sent to me. All I need to do now is get this printed!

After a lengthy relax making the one beer last for ages I had no problems with paying via debit card, having notified Lloyds that I would be here and making a couple of large payments. So that was a great relief. The receptionists managed to print out both of my boarding passes; I am flying from Vilnius to Warsaw then from Warsaw to Liverpool. 

When I say chilling that was before reading lots on the BBC News site about the Brexit mess. I know people have different opinions on this but I do recommend you have a read of this article if you can spare 5 minutes and your blood pressure is not already too high! 

I believe it is high time for a radical change to how our (undemocratic) democracy operates. I am certainly hopefully of a remain outcome where we can modify our destiny from within the EU without hard borders... 

That's it off to an early bed so that the 05:30 wakeup is not too much of a strain. I hope this blog has been of use to those who will follow in this wonderful service.