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Going for a walk
I'm aware that I've posted relatively little of recent. Most of the time I've just been so tired.
I had a bad bout of asthma in early December, that required two courses of steroids to shift it (please, please will the government do something about air pollution!). the side effects from the steroids wrecked my muscles and it's taken until now to get back to full fitness. Well, almost, I think it will be a few weeks yet until I finally see the back of it.
I'm hypermobile (ie. very, very bendy) which is great for things like dancing, but means that if I lose muscle tone, my slack tendons (which is basically what hypermobility is) means that things fall out of shape. My knee started flopping to one side and I didn't realise that for a long time. This had the effect of causing severe pain in my Achilles tendon, etc. etc.
Anyway, lots of exercises have got the strength back in the knee and the calf muscles and the tendon pain is gone in one foot and greatly improved in the other.
I do lots of walking as both a source of enjoyment and a practical necessity.
I was talking to my next door neighbour last week, and became aware just how unwell she has been. A combination of depression, work stress, aches and pains, etc. She hardly ever goes out because she tires too much when she walks, and she looks really pale from lack of sunlight.
So, when I saw her waving off a visitor this morning, I went out on impulse and invited her to come for a walk with me.
We had a gentle stroll across the heath (a path she'd never taken before, although she'd lived here over a decade) and I think it did help her a bit. We've arranged to do it again tomorrow. I'd normally walk further, but I don't want to exhaust her. Tomorrow we'll have added five year old, and I think that will be a bonus. Oswin is very good at chatting to people. She makes instant friends. (Last week, she invited the lady in the wholefood shop to come to her birthday party!)
I had a bad bout of asthma in early December, that required two courses of steroids to shift it (please, please will the government do something about air pollution!). the side effects from the steroids wrecked my muscles and it's taken until now to get back to full fitness. Well, almost, I think it will be a few weeks yet until I finally see the back of it.
I'm hypermobile (ie. very, very bendy) which is great for things like dancing, but means that if I lose muscle tone, my slack tendons (which is basically what hypermobility is) means that things fall out of shape. My knee started flopping to one side and I didn't realise that for a long time. This had the effect of causing severe pain in my Achilles tendon, etc. etc.
Anyway, lots of exercises have got the strength back in the knee and the calf muscles and the tendon pain is gone in one foot and greatly improved in the other.
I do lots of walking as both a source of enjoyment and a practical necessity.
I was talking to my next door neighbour last week, and became aware just how unwell she has been. A combination of depression, work stress, aches and pains, etc. She hardly ever goes out because she tires too much when she walks, and she looks really pale from lack of sunlight.
So, when I saw her waving off a visitor this morning, I went out on impulse and invited her to come for a walk with me.
We had a gentle stroll across the heath (a path she'd never taken before, although she'd lived here over a decade) and I think it did help her a bit. We've arranged to do it again tomorrow. I'd normally walk further, but I don't want to exhaust her. Tomorrow we'll have added five year old, and I think that will be a bonus. Oswin is very good at chatting to people. She makes instant friends. (Last week, she invited the lady in the wholefood shop to come to her birthday party!)
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You are such a precious neighbour! A gentle spring stroll can make miracles. And whe you add Oswin - the best recipe for a "revival"!!!