Days 20 - 22 - slow and steady

I'm going to start combining days as there's not much different going on. Improvements are gradual but  noticeable and I'm starting to transition back to 'regular' life. 

I'm walking around a km every morning, including a small hill that gets me breathing hard.

I'm doing a few hours of work every day.

I've finding ways to chunk out the household chores so I can help around the house without exceeding a 2-3kg weight limit.

I've restricted bladder-irritants to only 2 cups of coffee in the morning and sometimes some AF beers at night. But my home-brewed AF beers are very low carbonation anyway. No sparkling water, but the soda stream adverts taunt me throughout the day. 

I think that's having a positive effect on the number of toilet visits but I haven't backed that up with measurements yet - will do that every few days but it's too restrictive to try and do that every day.

I'm still on the stool softeners and will probably be so for the next week at least. I'm finding a link between constipation and leakage / incomplete emptying of the bladder.

I'm increasing my social interactions - as an introvert I'm kind of enjoying being locked away with no need to talk to people, but I'm making myself ring friends and I'm feeling much better for it. I'll hopefully even meet some in person tomorrow! (Edit - this didn't happen, stayed in bed instead!)

I'm enjoying the pelvic floor relaxation stretches. I'm also adding in some shoulder work with an exercise band but reducing abdomen load by holding the other end, not stretching off a static object. That way I'm not using my core to counter the stretch. 

I'm starting to plan & look forward to living a better life when I come out of the other side of this (isn't that always the way though?)

As a consequence of this I am absolutely exhausted every evening and am struggling to stay awake past 9pm!      

As an aside one of my mates said that 'it's great that I'm recovering well, I'm obviously doing exactly what they tell me & they would struggle with that'. Not sure it was intended as a compliment or not...  

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