Back on the bike and about to wet a line again!

The past fort­night has been a big change from a recov­ery per­spec­tive, some things have regressed a lit­tle and oth­er areas are rapid­ly improving.

The pain has regressed some­what. It was to be expect­ed as I low­ered my nar­cot­ic lev­els that the under­ly­ing pain would sur­face, but it has been hard to go back­wards in areas like sleep. On the oth­er hand, my trip to the phys­io­ther­a­pist cer­tain­ly paid div­i­dends and I have been able to help out more around the house, which with a trou­ble­some teenag­er reluc­tant to con­tribute, has been a good thing for our fam­i­ly dynamic.

Physiotherapist

My phys­io­ther­a­pist rewrote my rehab plan, slow­ly tran­si­tion­ing away from the basic move­ments I have been doing since the surgery and sub­se­quent rehab, towards more core strength and flex­i­bil­i­ty exer­cis­es. His name is Stu­art Cana­van and he comes across as both mild-man­nered and high­ly com­pe­tent. He analysed my walk­ing stride and told me to walk taller, and swing my arms more to avoid lat­er­al move­ment and wad­dling like an old man, and I noticed an improve­ment in both my pain, and my men­tal atti­tude, imme­di­ate­ly. I have since adopt­ed this very upright pos­ture and con­scious­ly made every effort to main­tain it, and I have absolute­ly seen the ben­e­fits of doing so in the sub­se­quent week and a half.

Fishing again!

My physio does not believe I will in any way injure myself if I do some light fish­ing from the bank, with a mate to help, so am look­ing for­ward to get­ting togeth­er with Stephen towards the end of the week to have a long-await­­ed ses­sion at Lake Wen­douree!! Stay tuned…