Where To From Here?

So, where to from here? Well, the next major step is getting discharged from Cavit. There are a few stepping stones towards that, the principle of which is getting walking independently full time again.

My physio, Sue, has a new piece of equipment to help with my truck strength and therefore my balance, ominously called the Reformer, that she says arrived at an ideal time for me. The Reformer is designed principally for pilates exercises and she can get me to do exercises and see what exactly is going wrong. Normally, I do exercises on the Reformer once a day. Sue, who teaches pilates herself, thinks that pilates is the one form of exercise that brings all other forms of exercises together. Assuming my diet of pilates goes OK, the Cavit staff think they'll be able to discharge me sometime in August.

After I get discharged I will probably come and live with Mum and Dad in Thorndon and after a bit of time at home make the slow transition back to work from there. The main limiting factor is likely to be my fatigue. It is normal to only start back at work for a few hours a day and build up from there.

There is a similar slow transition back to living without help. After living easy at Mum and Dad's for a while, and assuming that everything is OK, I'll move in to a flat or something.

The head injury apparently is likely to have affected my reaction speed so I'm not likely to be licensed to drive for about a year from the date of my accident. I'm also meant to stay away from road biking for about a similar length of time so there'll be no quick return to triathlon.

A friend jokingly asked me if I had started writing book about my miraculous recovery. My current defence is that I wasn't a good writer before the accident and don't expect to be one now. Also I've heard plenty of people describe my recovery as miraculous but it doesn't feel miraculous. Some of it, like not being killed outright or put in to a vegetative state, was out of my hands. In regard to the other stuff, I just living how I normally live. That is, I figure out what I could be better at and then set about doing my best to improve at it.

So there is the road map. It involves quite a few factors, and depends on quite a few things, but I'll do my best (same as always) to exceed expectations.

Cheers,
Mike