neurorehabilitationFromTheTrenches

It's been a while; so much for breaking my monthly article record in October, there's always next month. So I would ask that you do some soul searching, to see if you can come up with a publishable (basically anything) guest article. Some ideas are; a book review; a recipe. Since I'm back at work, it will get increasingly difficult to produce an article every week so I will get evermore reliant on guest articles. There has been something of a breakthrough in my training. I won't bore you with the details but the result is that I have committed to the following. It will soon be time for the Weihnachtsmarkt here, in Bergedorf. I can remember last year during the xmas markets, naively suggesting that I would be walking at the markets "next year" (this year). Well, that's not likely and, frankly, impossible unless I increase my intensity between now and then. So, I've decided to do just that. This will entail walking, outside if possible, every day. Th...

The main aim of this article should have been to push toward a record eighth article in a single month. Of course, that was dependent on one of you submitting a guest article. Claire's mother, Dervilla, did submit an article for publication, unfortunately that was past my bedtime of 22:00. I will simply start afresh in October, gunning for this allusive record. The aim now, instead, is to bring you through a typical day for me, including all my daily training. I finally started my internship, with EON , today, so all this will change. The alarm typically wakes us at 6am. Then we get showered and have some breakfast. I use a shower chair that was given to us by Niall & Pia. After breakfast, Claire makes sure that I have everything I need, including a fully charged phone, before she makes her way to work. I then get down to business. Firstly, I create my Wunderlist for the day, which today looks like this: The Gehbarren was up first, so I put youtube on to accompany ...

I'd like to thank Dervilla Fastner, Claire's mum, for sending me the first of what I feel will be a record breaking October. So, without further ado... I have decided to write a short overview about my experience of hiring a city bike during my recent weekend stay in Hamburg. As the weather forecast for the weekend was really good, we decided to go cycling together on the Saturday. Cycling is probably one of the best ways to explore a city, and besides that, it’s fun, healthy and environmentally friendly. Renting a City Bike in Hamburg How it Works:   It’s all fairly straightforward. Firstly, you need to download the Hamburg city bike app, STADTRad Hamburg , onto your smartphone. Then, sign-on entering a few personal and payment details. After a few clicks you are ready to pick up a bike. On the map, which is visible on your app, you will see all the pick-up and return points in and around Hamburg. There are 220 stations in total.  Once you have found a b...

My last article and included survey was pulled because 1/17 viewers actually took part. As such I decided that there was no way I could have received an adequate sample size to reveal anything insightful about Type A or Type B personalities; so, I pulled it, but thanks to all who took the survey I hope you will keep your score from the personality test safe, because there may be another similar survey on here in the future if my readership quadruples. Today I'll address yet another milestone I reached on this long road to recovery. I'll be starting an internship in the coming weeks, with Eon, with a view to regaining some level of employment. But that milestone is not yet reached. Instead I received this office chair , which will help me to work from home as though I was in the office. The milestone was the self assembly of the chair. I'd like to see him try to make it look that easy with one arm, and without walking ability. But I did it! Who's counting? But it too...

Lynard Skynard. It's difficult to say that without thinking of Sweet Home Alabama , the great song that starred in The Forrest Gump soundtrack. It was disturbing, then, for me, to hear another of "their" songs come on in my daily youtube loop, if not entirely surprising. Simple Man is offensive in its blatant encouragement of ignorance. Now, Lynard Skynard know their audience and they can play to them in whatever way they like, but I have a problem with them using the reputation that was, in part,  built up by past members  to propagandise for anti-intellectualism. Mama told me when I was young "Come sit beside me, my only son And listen closely to what I say And if you do this it'll help you some sunny day" "Oh, take your time, don't live too fast Troubles will come and they will pass You'll find a woman and you'll find love And don't forget, son, there is someone up above" "And be a simple kind of man Oh, b...

We arrived in Bad Segeberg at noon on Saturday. We had 3 hours to wait before we could check in to our hotel. So we went re exploring the Fußgängerzone and we stopped for lunch --it was really brunch, since we had skipped breakfast, so I could make a pig of myself, guilt-free. Ludwigs didn't make it on to our previous list but only just missed out. The plan of attack was a main course, followed by a dessert for myself. Both of which I enjoyed tremendously, sitting outside on a fairly summery autumnal day. We spent the night in the Vitalia beside the big Segeberg lake ---as opposed to the smaller Segeberg lake. We were sent out to a separate part of the hotel, which was a mild inconvenience for me but a chance to build on my weekend's mileage with the cane. Fortunately, we got a room high up, on the ninth floor, overlooking the large Segeberg lake, with a balcony. We had reserved a table from 7pm in Mones so, after checking in, we had some time, before our showers, to enjoy...

I'm back. This should be a record breaking month in more ways than one. I'd like to talk about the issue of free will as it relates to my rehabilitation. My position is simple enough, but I'll outline it fully, so you'll know exactly where I stand. Basically, similar to all free will deniers, I don't believe that free will exists. By that I mean, we are the sum of our physical parts. My position is that we are similarly limited of mind (we, most of us, could never match the brilliance of Einstein), as we are athletically (likewise, few of us could do, with a football, what Lionel Messi does every week). For me, there is no wiggle room from that point of view. It's all physical. What I would concede is that, for most of us, the brain can be trained; but even that requires will, so childhood is the last chance to really shape your future in what we would consider a useful way. Furthermore, I equate free will non-denial with religiosity. The very idea of self...