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Neurorehabilitation from the Trenches: June 2021

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 A lot has happened since my last update; so here's a summary: We went on our first post-covid holiday, since we are fully vaccinated. We left for Aarhus, Denmark in a rental car. It was a hassle-free drive of circa. 3.5 hours. There was an expected checking of our papers at the border; this was a Friday before we would get the all-clear on Sunday, following the mandatory 2-weeks post-2nd-vaccination-shot, so we had to get tests and show proof of same. No sweat. I had reserved a cargo bike (trike) for getting around while there. Cargo bikes are all the rage in Denmark, so I wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb. Our hotel was fairly central so when we had freedom to roam from Sunday, roam we did. Aarhus is a great City, that I fully recommend. There was a street-food area, conveniently near our hotel, which we made great use of, and the beaches near the City were wonderfully empty. The weather, aside from a little rain one of the days, was perfect. Then we returned to Hamburg on

Neurorehabilitation from the Trenches: May 2021

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At least it was May when I started this. Walking  This has been a busy month. Firstly I have made the following changes to my hourly exercises: Every hour, on the hour, I get to my feet without using any objects as leverage; once up, I maintain my hands-off approach by completing some* mini-squats -- I can't stress enough how pathetic these are, I don't manage the full 90 degree, knee-bend -- then I continue my standing balance training, with my feet shoulder width apart to run out the ten-minute countdown timer. This is during working hours, Monday-Friday. At the weekend, I follow this up with a plank or press-ups (again, pathetic), and I finish with 100 crunches.  *It started out as 50 but I've been adding 10 each week that I remember to do so. It's 90 now. I also do a weekly hour of free-standing. My Vision  We went to an eye doctor, who specialises in neurology. He didn't recommend that I go for an operation to attempt a correction of the double vision, as ther