Cracking Day today.

Although she didn’t get up early, when she did get up, she made the most of the day. She wasn’t in any discomfort after yesterday’s 1/2 mile with Ronnie, so today, the girls (kp, Jane and Ronnie) went to Bowes (a nice place near Barnard Castle). They spent most of the time drinking tea in a cafe and enjoying each other’s company. I didn’t go as a I was working from home.

kp brought me back some fudge – which was nice. I think she got more pleasure in buying me something than I did in eating it and it was very good fudge.

We ate outside and enjoyed the glorious weather.

On the previous night, we had all sat outside, and talk turned to the odd star that we could see in the sky (it was a bit misty). Ronnie had never seen a satellite travelling across the night sky and she didn’t believe in shooting stars. She said she did, but her smirk at me describing them gave it all away.

Anyway, tonight’s sky was much clearer with the mist being much thinner so I said to Ronnie I’d find her a satellite.

It took 30 minutes of patient waiting before a satellite appeared going across the sky. I pointed it out to everyone. Jane and Karen soon lost interest, but Ronnie and I kept watching it.

Then, a shooting star streaked across the sky. Ronnie was impressed and I was chuffed to bits at her having seen her first one.

That’s today. Lovely day.

I went to work in the morning, but Karen got up for a cup of tea with me before I had to leave. She returned to bed before I left.
Once back from work, Ronnie, kp & I went to Wolsingham to walk the dogs and to see if Bonnie could swim. kp is keen to increase her stamina and beat the 1/2 mile distance record. We wouldn’t have been far off today, not bad, considering she is only on a 75 and 25 patch (we had run out of 100′s).

The dogs enjoyed the water, messing around on a plateau of 2 inch deep water, but they both made the mistake of thinking everywhere they were was just an inch deep and both of them ran off into a 3 metre deep pool – Yes, they could swim. But they couldn’t get out, cue dp to pull them out by their necks.

Here are Ronnie and kp on the walk…..

Well, the walk yesterday was too much for Karen and she suffered overnight for her efforts. She had a dream where she was crying in pain, only to wake up and be crying in real life – I didn’t hear a thing

She got up about 9am to have a cup of tea with me when I returned from taking the dogs for a walk but she was irritable.

When she got up for good (about 11.30am), she was like a bear with a sore head. I’d say “Black”, she’d say “White”. I don’t think she was feeling tip-top – lack of sleep and pain aren’t a good combo.
Ronnie and kp, earlier in the week, had done some work on “getting a bra on” on your own with only 1 hand working properly. Ronnie struggled to do it herself initially and had to get topless to work out how it could be done. I wasn’t allowed in the bathroom for this “experience”, which is a shame as Ronnie has a lovely pair of ……… eyelashes.

However, knowing that they were going to do this, I placed a pinhole camera in the bathroom and recorded the event. CLICK HERE to see more.

So, kp gave me a demo of this new routine. It involves using the what functionality she has in her left arm/hand to hold the bra and then whizz it behind her back to catch it with her right hand. So, she showed me this. But, she had forgot the routine, and held it in her right hand, flinging it back to her left hand, which continually couldn’t catch it – heart breaking. I wasn’t too help on pain of death. But, I couldn’t keep quiet and mentioned that she should try flinging it with her left hand. LOOK OF MURDER on her face, she tried it this way. It took about 4 angry flings before she caught it.

With it caught, she uses her left hand to hold it tight, while she pulls it round the front with her right hand and then ties the bra in front of her. Unfortunately, she couldn’t work out which way round the bra was. It was inside out and one cup was upside down. kp has a problem with shapes/patterns and can’t work out orientations (spacial awareness they call it). I had to step in again. To cut a long story relatively short, she got it done, but was angry that it took my help – I think she had wanted to show me how good she was at it.

We had a lovely morning with Ronnie, before she departed back to Sunny Surbiton. kp slept most of the afternoon and I think she is a bit more with it this afternoon

kp was a bit subdued this morning. But it got a little better as the morning wore on. Mum and Dad came for lunch, they took us to the Pump House – the food was delicious and it was great to catch up with all the Lancashire gossip ! The weather was spot on today which helped us enjoy a great day.

When we got home from the meal, Karen went straight to bed – knackered. She was a little quieter than usual throughout the whole meal. I don’t think she has had any time without visitors for a couple of weeks and perhaps she has overdone it – although I could be well out there !

I start work on Tuesday the 1st August and won’t have time to do blogs so regularly, so tomorrow night (Monday) will be the last of the daily blogs

I still intend to keep a weekly diary up on how kp is progressing. I even tried to persuade kp to write a daily blog here, but on my first attempt I wasn’t successful. I will try again, perhaps some encouragement from blog land would be useful to persuade her also – she will kill me when she reads this.

I think it would be wonderful to read things from her perspective. I’ll have to flutter my eyelids a bit.

The Last Daily Blog

A cracking day today. Karen seems REALLY to be looking forward to tackling the upcoming days on her own, with me starting work tomorrow. Today, she tried to get dressed fully herself. No socks to do (too hot), so no problems there. But she came a cropper with the bra. Someone should invent a meccano set that can be surgically fitted to a woman to prop up the bosom area. There is a fortune to be made there. Would save so much time for all women and would save a small fortune in bras.

Anyway, she got it linked up around the middle and pulled it round and got one coconut in the hammock, but struggled with the other. Cue dp.

This shouldn’t be a problem generally as when I am not there she’ll just not put a bra on. If she is going out, she’ll probably persevere more and then ring me up for some advice.

I worked from home in the morning and kp slept until about 12pm. This afternoon, we went round the shops to post some letters, taking the dogs with us and then carried on a bit further to take them for a walk.

kp’s challenge for next week (according to her) is to go round to the shop on her own. Thankfully no roads to cross.

With that over, she phoned Angela (other lady from car crash) and had a long conversation with her.

More phone conversations took up her whole afternoon but she really enjoyed them.

I got a photo of Karen with BOTH thumbs up, indicating she is ready for me to go back to work……..

So, the last daily blog……..From now on, unless I can persuade Marie or Karen to write it, it will be weekly, probably sometime over the weekend.

Actually, I say that, I’ll probably not be able to resist doing it during my lunchbreak or something. We’ll see – assume weekly.

Big thanks to everyone who reads the blog and especially those who brave to comment. The comments really have spiced kp’s life up and helped her recovery.