Recovery ‐ Newsletter of the GBS Association of NSW
June 2016
and thought I would be out of the wheelchair and over
all this by then. Not to be, I then started rehab twice a
week, I have now been going for over a year. The last
6 months I have been using the hydrotherapy pool
which I find particularly helpful, initially hoisted and in
the last 3 months I have been able to use the stairs
holding onto the rail and taking it sideways, in the last
week I have finally been able to walk across the pool
without holding on, I am a long way from that outside
the pool, but progress all the same.
to clean and do whatever was necessary, my partner
was there for the weekend, then Sandra spent the next
week helping prepare me for being on my own, cooking
meals for the freezer etc. Then came a week on my
own, the first time in over 5 months and it was scary,
being in a wheelchair and in bed at night in the dark I
felt so vulnerable, everything was such a challenge. I
was sleeping about 12 hours, it was such an effort to
get out of bed, showered and dressed, I would need to
rest before I then attempted to get breakfast. The next
week my daughter came over from Perth, takes a bit of
organising on her part as she has 3 young boys, we
spent a lovely week together, so much easier when
there is someone to get my breakfast, lunch and dinner
and most importantly push me down to the sho