Well we made it, OGO POGO, the two wounded soldiers and the loyal wives arrived in splendid weather.

The body beautiful was honed to perfection but the wife was not convinced, so we sat around for hours

waiting for the wind and when it came oh boy , will the body cope with this. Force 4 and a relatively steep

sea. Gate start SCYC style , pulled everything in eventually , its doesn't point John! look at that luff round

surely its got to be tighter than that. We have to tack , what was that called "a crap tack" and so it went on.

 

So late on the water missed the Gerrard giving  of money  to Rasco and recieving "Flossy"a l ...

 

Well this blog has seven more days before it reaches its objective of getting me sailing again at SCYC.

The pills for beta blocking are still chilling me out to the extent I could stay in bed forever. That may

be natural to many but not to me. Drove to Newcastle in the week my legs were heavy and were aching

both to and from Newcastle. My achilles is causing more trouble than the bye pass still I'm not running

 a four minute mile when in the squib  but it could be useful to keep up with Rasco when he comes

ashore each day at Easter to buy us all a pint.

 

Today is coppershield touch up day, tenting the boat and oil heater cook ...

Down to Abersoch  3 hour run through those beautiful mountains passed old haunts of Bala SC ,

Forestry roads vrum vrum not today Darling, the odd Red Kite and millions of little white blobs.

 Sorry Gerard, little sheeps. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Its these bloody pills I'm going soft and sentimental

or is just the last bit.Did some great walks in beautiful weather plus the homage down the beach to

watch some idiot lose his speedboat and trailer stuck in the sand on an incoming tide. The wife dragged

 me away from  charitable assistance  4x 4 and speed boats not a good mix at Abersoch where keel

boats on the beach are concerned. It was a slow death and frozen to death had we ...

 

  Fiddled with OGO over the weekend put the mast up in a gale with snow thank God

my crew was there to help. Lots of engineering , confined space fitting out and voila

a fitted Furler.Rubbed the keel and hull down and generally bonded with the boat and

each other and the coming seasons campaign. So whats this got to do with Recovery?

 

Well my fitness  programme appears to be on a plateau it isn't hard any more and the

"pills" have knocked my heart rate down by  15 points. I now need to build my upper

body muscles with a specific personalised programme.  This is called Sailing at SCYC.

   3 monthly check up with a houseman , had no notes ,did no checks prescribed some sexy beta blockers

starting today for the rest of my natural..see your own Doc in a month for increased dosage, come and

see us again in 6 months  NEXT!...............not so much as a..........this can't be right I thought.....I don't

expect biscuits and tea ..... but called  in on  my own Doc ..is he's right.?.....yes !   bugger!       ......clever   

 b.............d!

 

Joined a l ...

 

I have a pretty good office set up at home so it was a case of out of bed into the office and then what?

Having continued answering technical  mails from around the world during recovery the rest of the time

was blogging on several sites and researching nautical things rather than oily things. No much different in

the scheme of things. Planning Planning and More planning thats not a four letter would  and retirement

from full time comes in May whoopee 

 

Tues off to Kiddy more grunting with heavier weights , the discomfort across the breast bone increases

 butIam getting used to it. One month to go before Abersoch. Add another 0.5 ki ...

 Upping the pace and weights from Tuesday  and again today is giving the chest muscles something

to groan and moan about but who cares or wants to listen. Just imagine your ribs being opened like

a double gate after neatly cutting & pulling the top side of beef to both sides. Do a bit of plumbing

on the pump from spare parts from your left leg put in back and then wire up the rib cage and neatly

sew the topside back together again. 

 

So what, No pain no Gain is still the watch word and I recon the surgeon might have used some iffy

wire on my sternum cause every time I do the jogging jumps I'm sure I am tending to move to magnet

north. Yes Gerard I am off all the pills bar aspirin, t ...

Physio Monday getting better, I dont cry just wince a little she must be a satanist Hello..Pain.CU Friday ..Goodbye.

Double booked , Fit to resume Work Note with a final year Student Doctor . Thorough it took over an hour

 but there again she was very young and very attractive. Checked me all over...I wont give you all

the details suffice it to say she said I was her most interesting case so far all she had yesterday was coughs

and colds and saw arse.....s and winging old ladies.The Doctor was called finally and I was away within 10

minutes. I had missed my appointment at Kiddy so joined in the next session.It was so slow my pulse

never got above 100  still there were a lot more women in ...

 I'm late and the room is full with more newbies. God it was chaos on the exercises the

women were doing their own thing in thier own planet...Bechod  (Shame) still as long

as we go away from here with what we came with its an achievement. 4 Sessions done

16 to go. Ha Ha Ha Ha stayin Alive .....stayin Alive!

 

The aches and pains remind me of all those years ago sailing at Bala where the first three

weekends of sailing season were very painful, since moving to the Midlands we sailed all the way

through the year without pain and were pretty fit. Well we are back to those olds days again

and this forced regime is at least preparing for what's t ...

Bye pass patients have a higher pulse rate than other heart problem patients..so my target is

is higher than others, having reached it already we are back into more pain to gain benefit.

Two faced ba.......ds! what level are you Mr T ? reading from the form.What it say on the

Form ? How do I know? I,m only the patient. This is your third session? Yes I replied. You

 should be on the 1.5kg weights. and so it went on . After the session we had a soft chat line

with this long haired , slim, nymphet who nicely informed us that if we did not continue a regime

of exercise after the 10 weeks we would be back to square one within two weeks.....WOW!

&nbs ...