Intransit

Wednesday

An aside......I spent quite some time yesterday teaching myself how to load music CDs into my hard drive, and then getting Album and track titles. After that I eventually managed to Rip the album and download it onto a storage card in my PDA. I had to get my youngest son to sort out an efficient program to get the Album details. Windows does not please me, or him. I am now listening to J Cash through my PDA. The sound reproduction is excellent. Having got the gist of how to Rip and transfer, I added several B Dylan CDs as well. I have a very good mini disk player (a present brought back for me from New York) which I use for all of my favourite music selections. Loads of disks and hours of playing.
I used to enjoy gardening, growing my own veg., and pottering for hours around the garden. It was hard work and I loved it. Physical exercise is so rewarding and a great antidote to daily problems. Alas, no more. Pushing a vaccum cleaner causes increased pain. I bought a Dyson for two reasons. It cleans the bed of dust mites etc., to help prevent my breathing from getting worse while asleep. The Dyson I bought is a long hose and small cyllinder model. There is only the weight of the hose to push around. Yes, this is another example of how I've had to alter the way I approach any physical activities.
I've spoken to fellow patients with similar conditions to mine, and we all agree, that we are always thinking several steps ahead before tackling any jobs to be done. Even washing the dishes. I bought a dishwasher to do the job for me, but the simple act of bending and twisting to load and then later, unload the dishwasher, put me on the sofa for some time afterwards. The pain was bad.

posted by john @ 9:53 am