Journal: The latter half of this Week
On Thursday  I had an appointment at the hospital again to try and sort out my speech problems. Rebecca again, she had with her, a student, Anne? Annette? she was quite older than Rebecca who would be in her mid-late thirties. The student would be 50, or slightly more. We went over word training again and how to deal with it. Pat was with me too and dying to chip in. Rebecca would ask her an occasional question.

It was suggested I should try exercising again which I have done little of since my stroke 4 years ago. We decided that I should start walking again. I went out yesterday in the rain for 35 minutes. I had to try and remember more things and I was taught ways to best improve my problems. Soon my hour was up and I felt worn out. I have another appointment in just over 2 weeks.

We left the hospital and called in again at Forlongs to change one of the bowls for another one of different colour the one we had did not seem right with our new table. We also had a problem with the table, there was some wide marks  which showed up depending on the angle of light. We had tried polish with no success, Alistair suggested to try a couple of things over the phone and we tried without success, He said he would change it with one sitting on the showroom floor tomorrow. I was worn out and went to bed just after 8.30 pm. Pat soon followed, both knees were giving problems with all the walking in the hospital.

Two men arrived  on Friday with a table top only, from the showroom, they looked at out table and said the marks had come from polystyrene packing rubbing on the table. They had seen the problem before. They set about changing the table top and all was well. They told us a couple of more tricks too, when Pat mentioned the extension wooden mechanism was tight. Apparently they were not just delivery men from Forlongs, but they assembled furniture coming into the store from overseas.

When we woke up this morning, Saturday there was a light fog and all the surrounding house roofs were covered with frost. The sun was shining through the fog. Now at 10.30 am the fog is gone and the sky is a brilliant blue. I will try another walk tomorrow.