Finally I am back!

Hello everyone! I am so sorry for not blogging during winter, I have been so tired so I have not been able to excersise or write 😔
We have had lots of snow like last winter, not too cold, but my body hate winter.

Outside my livingroom window

 When it is winter I really love to use our old "sledge", because then I do not need the crutches 😊

In Christmas I managed to get 2 weeks on my favorite island, Gran Canaria 💓

Landing

My favorite food, shrimps in garlic oil + garlic bread

A trip to Las Palmas to look at all the amazing sand sculptures

My view from the appartement

After New Year I stayed with my brother's cat and looked after the farm while he was on holiday.

Zorro want to cuddle

I finally managed to get to the gym in February! Started with the same program as earlier and found out I am as strong as earlier 😊

Treadmill 11% and 5 km/h

Balance

Have to train my vrist,too

 2 weeks ago I was at a hospital on lungrehab 💓

Lots of tests and conversations with doctor, physioterapist, nurse, and I got some good answers!
* I took a sleeping test one night and I do NOT have sleepapnea! As a result I got rid of some fear so finally I sleep well again 😊
* I took a test to see if I really have asthma? I have been using medication for 20 years,- now I know it is my big curves that make my lungcapasity bad 👍 My oxygenlevel is 90% and my lungcapasity is 62%. 
 They also checked if my veins are ok,- they are!

So the week was very useful! And the hospital was also a hotel special for people with asthma and allergy, so healthy food, no smoking, and they sold wine and bear in the reception 😎 
And for the first time in 2 years I feel awaken during the day, so I hope my energy will increase 💪 Shows how important a good sleep is!

I also drink kombucha (fermented tea) every day,- love it!


This week I will only get massage from my physiotherapist, because I have a cold + my nephew and his team, Kongsberg Miners, are in the finale of the best teams in Norway and I have to go there to cheer 🏀🏆 They already have gold medals in the serie 👍

 I hope you all are ok? I am really looking foreward to summer now!

Dennis loves winter, must be his Himalayagenes

 Big hugs to you all 💓
 
 

 

Autumn. Headache. Gym

Long time since my last chapter,- sorry 😔 I hope you are ok?

I know some of you remember my story: diagnozed when I was 4 with 40+ degrees, braces for 9 years and then my curves where 60+, now I am 63 and my curves are 90 and 85 degrees. Not much pain, but daily headache since I was 4.

Since I now have fatigue I only go to the gym 2 days a week, but because of a lot of headache I sometimes managed only 1 day pr week,- better than nothing but obviously too little!

I now also use the section where the "musclepeople" are 💪 and you know what ? I feel so much less handicapped there 😊 It is a really good feeling!

I have lots of excersises for my back and stomach of course, but also for keeping my balanse ok. This is very important when we get old, it can prevent falling and braking legs 👍

We have a beautyful fall after the extraordinary hot summer 🌞 Now we still have some summerflowers, but the trees are yellow and orange. Not long til we can get snow 😕

I have been pretty active these weeks,- trips with friends, walking my dog, Dennis, of course, making the garden ready for winter, knitted a scarf, reading and doing some embroidery 😏

Wednesday my youngest nephew was on the catwalk for the first time, he was so good!

 And tomorrow I shall go to a basketballmatch where my oldest nephew play (the photo is from a earlier match, I have purple jacket). They have won the first 2 matches so I hope they win this too 🏀

 
I hope you all are ok? Not much pain? Do you have summer or fall where you live?




Big hugs from me in Norway,- I hope we don't get snow until mid of November so I can continue using my bicycle

 

Now excersising with the musclepeople

My physioterapist decided that I now shall do some of my excersises in the same rooms as the people with big muscles! Lot of nice young bodies to look at 😋 while I do the things I shall do.

Just checking 😏

Another type of roingmaschine

Another type of pull down

 

My new "playground"

This was hard, have to tell you more later

 I have been going to the gym 2-3 days pr week for 2 years now and FINALLY I got sore muscles 😮💪 I have been doing hard work on the other devices too, but these are obviously different! So maybe I can feel progress in my body soon?

As you know I have fatigue (due to a life long severe scoliosis and several other stuff), now I have found out that my ironlevel (ferritin) is low again. It was 22 in the winter,- the level shall be from 15 to 150. Now I have 8, that is too low so I have to take tablets (iron and vitamin C). I also eat lots of beeroot, liver, dark green vegetables +++
This has been a problem my whole adult life 😔
 
Maybe you have suggestions to what else I can do?

 My dear dog Dennis has problems too 😩 He has been to the vet and next week he has to have surgery and remove several teeths! He is 10 in September and Lhasa apsos have too many teeths for their jaw so they can easely get problems. I am very nervous for the surgery, he is my child and I love him 💓

I now drink the Kombucha I have made every day! Hope it will do good for my body 😊
Have you tried it? It is fermented tea, very good for our bowls 👍
Next time I will try making it with blueberries!

A photo of me with my Milwaukee brace in the 60's

 I really hope you all are doing fine? And that you have not too much pain or other problems?

Big hug from me in Norway 💗