Yet again I've been slacking on the blogging front. Things have been going well. I have overcome a lot of fatigue, however my remaining complaint is how easily my legs are tiring when standing / walking. I need to maintain exercising to gain strength and stamina so I bought myself an exercise bike (quite a compact ne that can be folded away easily (which is good for my tiny little house). I'm just suffering in my mind by comparing myself to normal people freely doing normal exciting things, but maybe it's best if i distract myself from these moments of self pity. On the other hand I'm probably finding myself more tired due to the logical fact that I am doing more than I have been able to do in the last year.
At the end of August I went to Germany for the bank holiday weekend, we had a busy schedule with meeting and catching up with Matt's friends and family before I got dates for my Lemtrada round #2 in September (date pending). On Saturday we went to the Reichstag as we were invited by Matt's uncle & aunt, with Matt's mum to get a tour of the building. Because of the walking challenge for me we got a wheelchair to push me around in (totally not the image i'm looking for). So maybe I have to admit, the wheelchair was my saving grace and made the day less stressful, although the world from that height (everyone standing above you) is something that takes some getting used to (especially when the man pushing you is a virgin to caring for the feelings of the person in the wheelchair (we took some very sharp turns!). I was even handed over to Matt's mum and pushed into the ladies toilets ... what the hell! I can walk into the toilet if i'd need to! (should have been paying more attention to their German discussion) ... and the irony was, i didn't need to go, so i walked me and the wheelchair straight back out! :-D The sun was out and I was baking hot, needed to find air-con/shade fast, so we went to a steakhouse for my probably last medium done steak in a while. Sunday we were going to a German family reunion of Matt's mum's side, was nice, baking hot day, so glad to be in a summer dress and flipflops! Mostly sitting and chatting so just my style, with buffet lunch. We spent the most part of the day there and then caught up with a couple of fiends with light bites for dinner and some fun playing with their 2.5yr old daughter.
Then Monday ... no plans ... just lazing around and movie for the evening. Just nice to do nothing, PJ day. So that was my jam packed weekend, it felt tiring at the time, but the more practice I got climbing up to the 5th floor flat the easier it became day by day. I was knackered and sometimes disappointed when I needed to rest myself, but as ever Matt was quick to point out how many things i had overcome that weekend.
So noe to get home and eagerly anticipate my Lem #2 admission date. Give me drugs, I'm ready!
