Actually progress is difficult to follow if you are the subject being monitored and also doing the monitoring! But the physioterrorist who only sees me once a fortnight seems satisfied. I now have a programme of exercises that take about 20 minutes that I have to do four times a day. I am discovering muscles that I never knew I had, and also finding muscles that refuse to do what I ask them to, which is disappointing. But there is now very little sciatic pain, except at night, and the main problem is muscles that have been underused for nearly 9 months, and have become atrophied. Walking to the pub is now quite easy, with 2 sticks, and I actually went to the allotment yesterday and tied in the loganberries. The next task is to cut out the remainder of last year's raspberry canes and have a huge bonfire. And after that I have to sow seeds and so on. Fortunately last year before all this happened I decided that more of the plot needed to be put down to soft fruit, so that there would be even less digging, and now three quarters of the area has fruit bushes on it. There will be more by this time next year!
I go to see the man in the white coat on Tuesday, and he will tell my fortune. I suspect that it will be pretty uninformative, and that I shall be told that so far as he is concerned, I am doing OK and it is now down to the physio to do the rest.
Continued in our next, which will be after the consultation.
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