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I think x axis must be date. and 2 points per day/morning diastolic and systolic pressure.  It will be interesting to see how it clusters over more time. Maybe also record a "headiness" score for each day and see if there's any correlation, give yourself a rating from 1 to 5 as there's no objective data to track.

So sad for you, but possibly a blessing for him.  Hugs for you and your family. Hang in there and look after yourself.

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Good plan Kev! That so slow progress can be hard to come to grips with.

Goals are good but don't beat yourself up if/when you miss a day.  The aim is to create a habit which takes time so maybe start with micro habits at first that will lead up to your big goals. Its the new big thing I heard someone discussing this on the morning radio the other day

Oh Pam hugs, you can do this! My Aunt once fell and broke her back on Christmas day. Once she was stable we all gave he heaps for upstaging everyone at Christmas, and having to be the center of attention. She was in hospital after that one for a couple of months.  But you have to laugh at these things!

I'm so glad you were with your son when this happened and he was able to take you to the emergency room so quickly. Fingers crossed you recover quickly and life can return to "normal"

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you have to laugh Kelli, dad joke or not

That's a great idea thanks George. Will add it to my list of possibles

George that is great. And music is all about logic and math don't sell yourself short. Do some reading on harmonics and scales and chord construction, then train your ear to guide you, if you had no exposure to playing music as a child your brain may not go there at first.  But if you have some rhythm sense and a head for maths music should come relatively easily.  I found scales and chords made much more sense once I understood the math behind it. I'm still looking for an instrument that doesn't need a left hand and is relatively portable. A friend suggested harmonica, but it just doesn't appeal to me. There'll be something but I haven't found it yet.  I'll have to investigate properly once I retire, but there's no rush right now.

Enjoy your Dulcimer!

Heather

Thanks Will, the area with the fires has also been in severe drought for several years which is part of why the fires are so bad and starting this early in the season. Thankfully I'm much further south and Janelle is much further west. Sue would be the closest of the regular Aussie Strokeneters that I know of.  Fingers crossed that everyone gets through today OK, the forecast is for a "catastophic" day in that area today. They don't use that fire danger rating very often, thank goodness.

yes it comes very slowly sometimes, but you got it right! like my hops. My physio is getting me to do 6 - 10 hop attempts at the end of each session with her. We count the number of successful ones (where I clear both the toe and the heel) I now get more successful than failed most times.

What Sue said. Look after yourself and do try to push some of the admin to the rest of the family. Hugs 

-Heather

that's great George, we do something similar for splitting wood with the hydrolic splitter.  The controls are deliberately designed to need 2 hands as a safety measure. so that you have to take your hands away from the log to be split before activating it. My sister and I work it as a team. she holds the left control and I (or both or us for the really big ones) load/unload the logs and operate the right control. It works quite well once you get a rhythm going.

Glad to be of help Will. It's one of those things where helping others helps me. Thanks to all here for the support they give.

now that's a bonus! I've been a one mitten and 1 glove girl for 9 years now.  given I can't use the fingers anyway it doesn't matter. the fun part is putting the glove on the good hand when the bad one can't help, this is one where I do ask for help

Oh yes the shower! thanks for the memory jog. I had a few "fights" with my OT over that one in the early days. I hate showering in the chair you just don't feel clean all over (which I know is not truth). One of my first goals in rehab hospital was to shower "properly" and wash my own hair. I hated the nurses doing it.  But hospitals are so risk averse they wouldn't let me do it. I had to wait until I went home. I had the stool/chair in the shower so it was there if needed but I would stand as much as possible.  I got better at very quickly, I only remember one bad fall where I tripped getting out of the shower. My sister then made me go to the doctor in case I'd given myself a concussion, but I was lucky.

life does tend to be full of ups and downs. Fingers crossed all the "bad" news is done with for now, and the new care system for Gary continues to be good.

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-Heather

this happens more and more I find.

yes the first couple of times you do something the connection and pathway tends to be very weak. it has to be reinforced multiple times before it "sticks"  but knowing you did it once makes it easier to keep trying, and all of a sudden you can. mind you you still need to keep practicing or it goes away again.

that does sound hopeful, looking forward to further updates.

I'm afraid he is correct Asha, the gold/diamonds are there but sometimes you have to keep sorting through muck to find them, it's worth the effort in the long run.

And oh yes the annoyance of using a cane/crutch when only one hand can be relied on. worst when it's raining and you just want to use an umbrella not struggle into a coat.  Fingers crossed (whenever I can spare them) that the ankle heals quickly.

Sue your turn to count spoons!  Make sure you have spoons for fun as well as spoons for necessities. https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/ and as Janelle reminded you it is OK to say NO.

a friend is good especially if he ends up living in your building.  Good luck with the online dating

It is good for the ego isn't it! I do hope he calls

The limit is reached when we stop trying. So long as you are trying new things anything is possible.  That "going on strike" effect of finding something new is quite common I think.  My theory goes something like this. Even "simple" things are complex e.g. hopping requires that certain muscles turn on in exactly the right way and in the right sequence with perfect timing for others to turn off so those ones can turn on and as it's an explosive movement they have to turn on together and that's not even thinking about the shock absorbing and landing that has to happen afterwards.  The first time you do something with that complex a sequence is partially dumb luck, repeating it requires all those things to work together again and the post stroke brain (well mine anyway) is not so good at sequencing and fast reactions so it takes repetition to setup the pathway/sequence so you can keep doing it and finding that perfect sequence a second time seems to be tricky.  and by the next day the brain has forgotten how it did it, even if the muscles are strong enough.  But because I know I did it once I keep trying and the sequence and signals get better/stronger and the miracle becomes normal again.