Training Log Archive: philm64

Weekly update.

Progress - I can now walk - but not far; wash up , shower, even cook (!), go up a flight of stairs. I am off the morphine now.

I cannot drive, and so getting to any shops is a real problem/impossible. Am reliant on friends bringing stuff round. I'm now an Uber client - have twice had to go back unplanned to GP to get manky dressings changed. Taxi. ££££. (amazingly lucky - no infection occurred - despite waking up with nightclothes & sheets soaked & sticky with wound discharge earlier this week. Now under control after a dodgy 48 hours.)

Operation - Laparotomy (google image it) - was 2 weeks ago. 6 weeks off driving, so I make that 4 weeks to go...

Illness started 3 weeks ago.

Without Liz (constant help) & Clio (dropped everything & came round to dress my wound the other evening), this would have been massively, massively harder.

Those who know me well - having ME/CFS for 6 years was immeasurably worse than this. Yes really. Less acute, but horrendously worse.

I had already bought flights to Geneva for 7th August for 8 nights, and I am hopeful I can make it - no heavy bag tho - but won't bring anything anyway as no way can I climb / via ferrata / do big days out. Accepted this 100%.

I have lost over 3kgs, now 66.3kg. oh dear. I'm also teetotal. Planning on breaking this in Switzerland on august 12th (my birthday) - will have been over a month dry by then :-) #achievement