Tag: Stability Exercise Class

MOVICOL

I have better bowel movements since I started taking MOVICOL I take it first thing every morning. My morning routine includes a cup of tea, a banana and some other fruit. After a wash or shower with nice warm water I get dressed and hopefully can go for a little walk. Later on I usually cook myself a nice breakfast. Often this nice breakfast is enough to have with it a second breakfast (Brunch) as well.

What do I do over one week? A normal week goes like this:

Mondays I get three hours home help, that is the home help comes at 9,30 AM and leaves at 12,30 PM. Tuesdays I do in the morning whatever I feel like doing. Wednesdays I join a STABILITY EXERCISE class at CITOS Bowling Club, with coffee and talking after the class and sometimes lunch at the Club as well. Thursdays my daughter Monika usually picks me up to take me out for lunch with her grandkids. Fridays I go to the CITOS CLUB again early in the morning. Sometimes I have have a lunch special again at the Club. From 2PM on I play SCRABBLE and Rummy with some of my friends.

What happens on the weekend? Saturday/Sunday I usually have totally to myself unless a family outing has been planned.

To have to be ready at a certain time, I find demanding, since it takes me up to two hours to get ready! I do everything so very slowly and often keep running out of time. But I am very happy that I can stilll live on my own.

Tomorrow, Monday, the 12th of February, is the funeral of my neighbour Barbara, who passed away on the first of February.

My home help stays with me until 12,30PM. This is the time when I’ll be ready to be taken to the funeral which starts at 1,30PM in Kiama. Two of my very kind neighbours are going to take me to the funeral.

Wednesday, 7th of February. New Start of Stability Exercise Class

I am looking forward to start the Stability Exercise Class again. The class is at the CITOS club today at 10 AM. After the class we stay for coffee with a bit of nice talking.

I thought yesterday Dapto would have no electricity for most of the day. But the planned outing was cancelled. They are going to do it some other day. It has to do with mantaining the aging power lines.

My deck looks good at the moment for yesterday after the rain I busied myself with sone good sweeping away all that water. I love doing this. It is so relaxing! Of course I do it very slowly. I felt good staying on my own yesterday. Spending a lot of extra time in the kitchen as well as on the computer was good. So, so I managed to write several longer emails to keep in touch with some family members. Among other things a trip to Sydney visiting daughter Caroline and son-in-law Matthew might happen soon as well as a meeting with granddaughter Lauren and her friend Aaron. Actually, I received a very nice email from Lauren yesterday and answered it straight away. I haven’t seen dear Lauren for several years, but hope to meet up with her soon. It is not so easy to keep in touch when everyone is always very busy. There seem to be less and less old people left that I can keep in touch with on a regular basis. So, this is the way it is, that old retired people are getting less and less. Still, most of us do not pass away early. We live longer and longer than ever before.

It is so good to see the younger people being adventurous and keeping themselves very busy. I an happy to stand back now and do a lot of reflecting about old times. So far I still have great memories about my life. When I cannot remember something all that well anymore, I like to look up what I have written about certain incidents and may have published in WordPress. I look and look for a special blog. I seem to remember that I had published a blog with pictures about a lovely outing many years ago. So, why is this blog not there anymore? I take hours wanting to find it. But it is just not there anymore!