3 Month Goals!

While I'm nomming on this lovely meat feast pizza from That Company Who Shall Not Be Named, I thought I would write about my day in detail.

As I said yesterday about the porters, they finally turned up at about 8:30 this morning, only 18 hours late! Well anyway, with a renewed sense of "omg, sausages wrapped in bacon" cheer, I did my stretches while my physio went and gave a HUGE bollocking to the porters for yesterday. Apparently they didn't pick me up because they were only told an hour in advance and because they only had a two hour gap...

Anyway, stretching was the same as always, then my "supervised exercises" (torture physio as I call it) and then I had an OT session, which was in the bathroom! My OT showed me a bath thing, which looks fantastic! I can have one of my own too, so long as I have the measurements of my bath! So I asked mum to get them for me earlier!

When talking with my OT, she also commented that I'm very similar to her son who has Asperger's Syndrome. She said that everything I say, the way I say it and the things I do are all very "Asperger-y" and asked me if I had ever been tested for it. I haven't, and I'd never really considered it before. When I got back to the ward at lunch, I did a bit of reading online about it (naughty, I know...) and it sounds like me! Explains my quirkiness, I guess! It's not a 'disorder' or a 'disability' it's just a difference in personality, from my point of view, and it's quite common.

My (technically) third physio session of the day was actually my 3 month goals, which were things I want to be able to do within 3 months from leaving. My goals, I hope, are obtainable; when I get chance, I'll put them here and I'll try to keep this updated to show my progress. One of them, I've already managed to do, amazingly!

The one goal I've managed to achieve, is to start watercolour painting. I've bought nearly all of my equipment, including reservoir brushes, which are the cleverest thing I have ever seen! They hold the water in the handle and have a cap like a pen, so when you're moving about, you don't need to take a water pot for your brushes! How great is that? I bought a set of 24 watercolour pencils, 3 reservoir brushes (a set, fine, med, broad) and a spiral watercolour 130gsm paper pad! So I can't wait! It should be with me early January!

Lunch today was a Pot Noodle, as I do not trust the hospital food. For example, the pineapple juice is GREY; it also tastes very syrupy and strange... Then after lunch I nipped to the hospital restaurant next door and bought my dinner, a pre-packed BLT, a pack of cheese and onion McCoys, a bar of Galaxy and two bottles of Mountain Dew (one for Sports and Recreation later) and stuck everything on the window sill to chill!

Sports and Recreation was quite fun, I'm pretty good at badminton as long as I don't have to move about (as I have decent hand/eye co-ordination) so that was fun. Then we moved on to Table-Tennis, which was a nightmare, as we did doubles, boys vs girls and my doubles partner was incredibly aggressive (deliberately, to make the physios work really hard picking the balls up!) he got told off in the end! Quite naughty behaviour for a 38 year old policeman! It was absolutely hilarious, though!

Well, I've eaten about a third of my pizza and it's 11:40 now, so I think it might be sleepy time! (maybe...) Back tomorrow morning at quarter-past dark AM, with the daily plan, as usual!