Two concussion milestones

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!