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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    Progress gets quicker once you get some strength back. Was managing to roll onto side, push legs over edge of plinth and sit up on edge of plinth today. Hard work, but shows arms are responding to bike/weights workouts. Also getting more confident re balance and sitting on edge with less concern about nose-diving to floor :)
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  • whitebait01
    whitebait01 Posts: 610
    Sounds like great progress, OB. Keep up the good work and keep us posted please! All the best :)
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    Fantastic, keep up the good work buddy!!
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    I'm a bad person

    I giggled at the thought of a face plant.

    I'll go and sit with the Projects team as penance....
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  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    Saw your tweet to @ChrisHuber, OB.

    Hope something interesting comes of that. Keep us informed!! :)
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Keep up the good work, OB.
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    I'm a bad person

    I giggled at the thought of a face plant.

    I'll go and sit with the Projects team as penance....

    Yes you are KB :)

    Seriously its one of the hardest things to deal with - when being rolled in bed, hoisted, or on the plinth in the physio gym - the scary feeling of lack of control and of falling and doing more damage...
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    FoldingJoe wrote:
    Saw your tweet to @ChrisHuber, OB.

    Hope something interesting comes of that. Keep us informed!! :)

    He's following me, but no response as yet. unless he emailed via twitter which didn't work initially as twitter didn't like my email domain at first.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    OptimisticBiker wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    I'm a bad person

    I giggled at the thought of a face plant.

    I'll go and sit with the Projects team as penance....

    Yes you are KB :)

    Seriously its one of the hardest things to deal with - when being rolled in bed, hoisted, or on the plinth in the physio gym - the scary feeling of lack of control and of falling and doing more damage...

    I would think it is more the psychology of losing control, and possibly the hardest thing to deal with. I guess at some point you will find a new 'level' and live with that. Fear of the unknown may play a part as well... doing something 'new'.

    It's almost like you have to fall to know you can recover from it... under your circumstances the fear of that fall will be huge - given what happened last time.

    (Oh and sitting with the Projects people was HORRIBLE. I'll never be bad again)
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    2012 Felt F65X
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    And how exactly did you explain this all to the Projects people? "Hi, I'm Kieran. I've been bad to someone on the internet, so I have to come and sit next to you lot as penance"? :? :lol:
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Hello OB

    Just found this thread, to say I am stunned by your accident is an understatement.

    Have you started writing your blog yet? I would like to follow you on your journey.

    Regards

    YP
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    First home visit today. going to be weird seeing house after 3 months. only a couple of hours tho..

    @yp been keeping notes and daily diary, but writing enough interesting material for a weekly blog beyond me at the mo. it'll come..
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  • kingrollo
    kingrollo Posts: 3,198
    Keep up the good work OB - Your positive outlook is very inspiring
  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    Great - I'm sure it'll be a massive emotional step to get home - however short it is.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,866
    Excellent. Always good to hear of your progress. Hope it goes well.
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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    Glad to hear you are making progress OB.

    If it was my wife she'd have probably saved the washing up that I left for me to do on the home visit :roll:

    I'm sure there is plenty of material for your blog. You don't need to restrict it to the physical things that you have achieved that week. You have an active mind, perhaps a new perspective and enough time to properly think things through. If anything your opinions are even more pertinent that they ever were.

    Keep up the good work.
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  • Corporate Camper
    Corporate Camper Posts: 293
    How's it going OB?

    How was the home visit? I would imagine it would be mixed emotions...
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    It was, but managed to make a couple more since then, one whole Sunday afternoon with about 30 friends & relations to celebrate the birth of my first grandchild, a girl, in Melbourne (what would we do without Skype!), and a Friday evening supper with family. :D
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    He lives! Congrats OB.
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Excellent news OB.

    Congratulations on the new arrival.
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    Need to clear garage so work on house adaptations can start. Already arranged clearance and storage of workshop/machine tools but need someone local to take 3 bikes (old mtb, old commuter, weekend bike) and clean/tidy them up ready for ebaying plus strip down the Condor frame and bag up parts for potential sale or store and get frame to Condor to see if it can be salvaged.
    Invacare Spectra Plus electric wheelchair, max speed 4mph :cry:
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    OptimisticBiker wrote:
    Need to clear garage so work on house adaptations can start. Already arranged clearance and storage of workshop/machine tools but need someone local to take 3 bikes (old mtb, old commuter, weekend bike) and clean/tidy them up ready for ebaying plus strip down the Condor frame and bag up parts for potential sale or store and get frame to Condor to see if it can be salvaged.

    If you need any help re: bikes drop me a PM.
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  • velohutts
    velohutts Posts: 288
    good luck with the renovation/adaptions, positive news that this is progressing , good to hear you back with updates , now perhaps key , how big a telly are you going to be able to get away with ready for the tours this year as clearly an aid to recovery !!!!!
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    velohutts wrote:
    good luck with the renovation/adaptions, positive news that this is progressing , good to hear you back with updates , now perhaps key , how big a telly are you going to be able to get away with ready for the tours this year as clearly an aid to recovery !!!!!

    Stuck with my 19" on ITV4 :( I guess as my 46"/Cable/Sky wont be accessible to me til late July or poss Aug.
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  • kingrollo
    kingrollo Posts: 3,198
    Much respect OB - Keep at it & congrats on the addition to the family.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    Congratulations on the grandchild (and on getting home for a get together with friends and family for that matter).
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,379
    A grandchild? How old ARE you?!

    If I may ask, will/how will you be able to travel in the medium term? Is flying going to be possible, or too soon to tell?

    Btw, I watched some of the best years of the tour (2000-2002 - if you like fiction) on a 14" telly. 19" will be plenty big enough to see when someone is about to crack.
  • spasypaddy
    spasypaddy Posts: 5,180
    Just spoke to OB on the phone, he sounds in good spirits!
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    spasypaddy wrote:
    Just spoke to OB on the phone, he sounds in good spirits!

    You got e-mail.
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,866
    Glad to hear things are progressin OB, and congratulations on the grandaughter.
    Let me know if I can help with any of the bike related stuff.
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