Off the tablets and swimming again

So my slow slow recovery from all this nonsense with the vertigo attacks has taken another couple of steps forward. I'm off all regular medication now, I still have things to take if I feel a migrainne attack coming on (bloody great pink ones that have enough pain killer in them to kill a cat) and then to take if they fail and a vertigo attack kicks in. However I've taken the pink ones a couple of times in the last two months but the others ones not once since early Jan ... HOORAY!!

So given I'm feeling better but also feeling unfit and fat I've hit the swimming pool. Now I think looking at the dust on the bag and the last reciept I found in it that I hadn't been since November where I think I went one day and had an attack that night or the next day and wonder if that was a catalyst. So I stopped going and you know how it is once you get lazy... you get lazier and lazier...

The pool is a building site currently - it was in Nov but now it is even worse, you go in through a fire exit, the reception is a little office near that, no ceiling in the changing rooms, only two showers working, bits boarded up here, there and everywhere. Still the pool is still alright! On Monday I did 40 lengths, today 50 which is my normal training distance. Yes I was slower than of old but then I'm getting old and my legs and back ached a bit but still I'm pleased to be back doing it.

Also it does energise me more for work than I've been in the past few weeks.

Comments

  1. Piley17 March 2010 at 22:39

    credit to you Sir - great to hear you are getting back in the swing of stuff. Very positive that you are back swimming too.

    40 lengths sounds bloody amazing to me!

    P

    ReplyDelete
  2. Furtheron18 March 2010 at 08:58

    @What was Done

    I decided to leave this bit of spam here in case anyone wants to look at the site which is quiet amusing...

    It shows what some people did at certain ages... however it seems a bit odd... read wrong to me.

    Pick 47 and it says...

    06-April-2005 : Rainier III, Prince of Monaco dies; his son Albert II succeeds him

    I think Albert II was 47 Rainier was in his 80s surely!

    Go up a year and Bob Dylan in 1961 met Woody Gutherie... yes it was Woody who was that age...

    Interesting site... sort of just could do with some more thought

    ReplyDelete
  3. Axe Victim19 March 2010 at 00:45

    Keep it up. Seems like things are moving forward as well as you could expect.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tom Edwards' Poem "Why I don't drink anymore"

Thanks to my friend DeeJay for pointing this out to me - it was on a BBC2 show. An excellent summary of alcoholism I changed because I have the sickness of alcoholism, alcoholism doesn't come in bottles it comes in people. You should have seen me. I drank for happiness and became unhappy; I drank for joy and became miserable. I drank to be out-going and became self-centred; I drank for sociability and became argumentative and lonely; I drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious. I drank for friendship and made enemies, I drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self-pity; I drank for sleep and awakened without rest. I drank for strength and felt weak. I drank for masculinity and it sapped my potency; I drank medicinally and got sick. I drank because I thought my job called for it and lost my job. I drank to stimulate thought and blacked out. I drank to make conversation and got to where I couldn't talk at all; I drank to forget and became haunted. I drank for freedom...
Read more

Guitar Review - Vintage VE2000GG Gordon Giltrap Signature 12 string

Image
Folks will remember my purchase a few weeks back of the Vintage Gordon Giltrap VE2000GG 12 string to replace my old Yamaha which sadly has seen better days... My requirement was for a nice playable 12 string electro-acoustic.  Most of my stuff is as you know acoustic rock orientated in the David Gray, John Mayer genre.  I'd had my eye on a Gordon Giltrap for a couple of years now anyway since a) I'm a big Giltrap fan b) I'd heard said Mr Giltrap use the 6 string version live a couple of times and was impressed c) it seems incredible value for money. Now then my life was made a touch my complicated by the appearance of the Paul Brett signature 12string.  This is a slight oddity in that this is a parlour sized guitar which to be honest wasn't my initial desire but has received rave reviews and also has been designed as a 12string from the ground up - unlike the Gordon Giltrap which is an adaptation of a 6 string design.  Not unusual to be fair most 12 strings ar...
Read more