Following our walks on Sunday and Monday, Ray has taken it easier the last two days. He has found he needs the painkiller at night as he does get tired and achy very easily. Although the exercise is helpful, he’s still learning that he now has to accept certain limitations.
Mentally this has been tough, two years ago he was a very fit 46 year old, he had a physical job and was a keen sportsman. He didn’t have to worry about limits because he never reached them , he stopped when he was fed up not because his body said he had to.
Right now we both realise every day is a bonus and just being here at all is more than he ever expected, at the same time he is still trying to adjust in some ways to the different body he now has and learning there might be lots of new limits physically but that doesn’t stop us making the most of what we do have.
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