We both had a cracking night’s sleep, sleeping from 10pm to 9.30am. 11am in kp’s case.

Generally Uneventful Day.

After breakfast, kp had her homework (for the week) to do, namely to attempt a construction that the OT had left.

It is supposed to look like this when constructed ………..

and involves LOTS of bolts, screws and various levels of dexterity, from moving heavy metal plates, to putting screws into sockets at certain angles, to turning screws. I was in charge of instructions and told kp how to do it.

Suffice to say, she really struggled with it. I pretty much had to help her at every stage, and what should have taken about 2 minutes to construct, took about 20-25 minutes.

Click here for a bit of footage of her trying to get one of the screws in. It has to go a certain way. The hexagonal head fits into a hexagonal hole (this isn’t obvious from the video).

She finds it sooooooooooooo frustrating. She completes one thing only for her left arm to knock it out of the way, so she has to start again. She has little or no feeling in her left arm/hand so is unaware she has even destroyed her work. At one point, she swore blind she had completed the left nearside screw (which she had), but didn’t realise it was now on the floor

Also, the metal plates (and screws to a lesser extent) feel painful to the touch to Karen because they are cold.

Anyway, with help, she cracked it in the end.

We had a nice leisurely afternoon watching “The Pianist” and kp is phoning friends and family as I type this.