HEALTH UPDATE: Heading In The Right Direction

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Since we last spoke, my health has been improving in leaps and bounds (without any leaping or bounding, I should stress).

I'm much more mobile than I have been for months, am able to take showers again, generally move freely around the house and have put away (at least for the moment) my various mobility aids.

I am back to just using - when necessary - my single walking stick (which I've used for over 20 years now, since my stroke).

Rachel even felt confident enough to leave me to my own devices one night when she had to go away for business, trusting me to take care of Alice and not have any falls. Everything was fine.

All this progress can be primarily attributed to my regular Biscuit Club exercise class. Last week was our third assessment (we had one when we joined and another 12 weeks later) to quantify our progress.

I'm delighted to report that all my test scores had improved against both of those earlier examinations (remember that between my first and second I'd suffered the manifestation of osteoarthritis that set me back dramatically).

Our final assessment will be at the end of the course, which I think we worked out was in March.

Both Rachel and my instructor, Caroline, are keen that I continue with programmed exercise after this. Walking football was suggested, but I fear that might be a bit too competitive (and social; there are only three of us in Biscuit Club and that's about right for me).

Still waiting for a date for the steroid injections into my spine, which I'm putting a lot of faith in being the final part of the recovery jigsaw. I'm hoping these will (at least temporarily) eliminate the constant pain in my back and allow me the flexibility and range to push my exercising further and keep the osteoarthritis under control.