I posted this on Facebook this afternoon, but thought I'd put it up here as well for friends who aren't on there.
I'm celebrating two concussion-recovery goals since last I put anything here:
1. Last week I did a 1h20 walk :-)
That was my goal for walking, so I'm no longer doing carefully timed
walks with steady increases and can just walk when I actually want to
for as long as I want to. Hurrah! When I started with the concussion
service I was only doing 7-8 minutes (and before I got help from them
there was at least one day when I couldn't even walk from our front door
to the fence, which is maybe 10 meters?), so it feels fantastic to be
able to do so much now. That was around 9000 steps!
2.
Today I did 1h20 on the bus (made up of three separate journeys, but I
was walking all the time I wasn't on a bus, so was in motion a smidge
over two hours) with fairly minimal nausea. I got home an hour and a half an hour ago
and the nausea still hasn't 100% settled BUT I'm encouraged that
this means I should be able to manage a trip we have planned in late
August. That will involve 30 minutes on the train, a brief break in
town, then 50 minutes on the ferry. I think what I did today was a bit
more challenging than that (mostly because I kept walking all the time I
wasn't on the bus so the nausea had no chance to settle), so I'm pretty
confident we can go ahead with our planned trip :-)
I'm also hoping to do a 4 hour bus trip in October (Whanganui to
Wellington) - that may still take a bit of preparation, but it feels
do-able. Hurrah! Only 10 weeks ago I did a 15 minute bus trip and was
shocked how nauseous I got, so I'm really pleased by this progress.
I am so happy. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
The
photo above is of a sign by the Lower Albert St bus stops that always amuses
me. How many phone calls to the Fire Service were there before that
went up??!!
Lastly, the bus trip I
did was the entire route of the #18 bus (home to town, town to New
Lynn, New Lynn to home). It turns out that that's a very cost-effective
way to test your bussing capacity: it was only $4.01 the whole trip -
the same as the home to town section of the route costs on it's own!
