Monday, July 11, 2011

  Early morning appointments are the very devil to me, however I heaved my aching body into a sitting position and tried to focus and wake up.  I was spending my morning at my first Pulmonary Rehabilitation aka rehab. and had to be there in 3 hours.  Easy you might say.  Yes if you are not me.  I know it will take me at least an hour to get me out of the house and drive the few miles to the next village where it will be held.  In the meantime I have to wake up, wash, eat breakfast and get dressed.  

All that being completed I head out down the stairlift out the house to the car.  My husband Jon and my son Oliver have come with me to help me to accomplish this feat and we make it to the venue in good time.  They wheel me in to find 4 others there who with me will be weighed and had vitals taken, medication noted and about 3 forms to fill in related to how we feel at certain situations in the course of any given day.  All useful for their research I guess. The people running it was Anil who is a senior respiratory physiotherapist, and two nurses, Gemma and Wendy.

The last thing was a walk that we had to do, where we set off between 2 cones when the beeper sounded and turned back and walked the other way.  If the beeper hadn't sounded again we had to wait until it did before setting off again.  The idea was to see how much we could do in 6 minutes. I started out with my A frame rollater and the first there and back was okay but I was starting to get that feeling and I knew the number of steps I could do was numbered from there on. I got to the cone at half way point and made the mistake at looking down at the oximeter they had put on my finger at the start. It read 83 and I wasn't happy, I probably panicked after that because I asked for a chair and it was 4 mins before I was capable of talking.  

Its pretty pathetic that I only managed one and a half circuits which I don't know the correct length but is approx. 30ft.  They then explained that this was not so much a test but a guide.  They will get me to do the same thing at the end of the six weeks exercises and see if I have improved at all.  All I can say is I better!  None of this is fun for me.  I hurt and on the verge of panic but I have to get past this, I have to keep telling myself that I will be breathing better the more I move...as Gemma says all the time .."think lungs"

Monday we start in earnest....exercising!

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