Day 22

Covid 

Testing day!

A really really good sleep although at one point I woke up and thought I was still in UPA trying to find the light switches above the bed!

Woke up at 06:30 and got myself organised to get quietly upstairs to test my bloods and then create a standard home breakfast. I created a schedule, on google calendar, of what to do with similar ‘appointments’ to those in UPA.

 

After Catharine got back from taking Jazz for his walk weee checked out the process of the 2 day test. FInding that the last priority post box in our area closes at 12:30, some 12 miles from here, and you are supposed to drop the package 1 hour before closing time, we didn't have a lot of time to get the test done. So test completed Catharine then shot off in the car to deliver the package while I sorted out the youtube videos I was given and found suitable bits to aid these exercises.

I should have ordered a ‘peanut’ gym ball but didn’t get round to this yesterday.

I made mental notes of the exercises which we did there but are not on the videos:

Standing by the wall bars

1. Heels and toes
2. Lifting legs onto the 2nd Bar
3. Sideways ‘lunge’
4. Step back with one leg and stretch the calf muscles.

Then

1. Lying on my back with peanut
2. Roll back/forward to flex the knee
3. Push down with 1 leg at a time; straighten the leg
4. Lift pelvis and curl spine back down

After all this preparation, exercising and walking up and down stairs to the toilet I had a rest with an ice pack and watched some TV.

With it being a 6 Nations Rugby weekend it was clear that I was going to be sitting for quite a while in the afternoon but I made sure that I mobilised regularly and didn’t leap up and down too much when Wales scored.

By the evening I was feeling uncomfortable and restless. So moving to the sofa for the 9 o’clock slot on BBC4. After the double session it was time to go to bed, but I was still uncomfortable and so took another CBD pill.

Generally I was better today than yesterday