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[turps]

I was back seeing the physio yesterday about my shoulder. She gave me more exercises to do alongside the ones I'd been told to do last month. I'm supposed to do them four times a day, so that's an hour out of my day that should be dedicated to my stupid rotator cuff. She also referred me to a shoulder exercise group that happens an hour a week for six weeks. Again. Stupid rotator cuff.

I'm trying out Mailbird as a new email client as thunderbird has gone screwy on me again. It hasn't downloaded new messages for over a day, and before that I noticed it said I had 38 unread messages in my in-box, which wasn't true at all as I'd been working on answering everything. I knew what I actually had in the in-box didn't add up to what thunderbird was saying, but can I hell find those unread emails, even after checking sub folders. Gah, and now I see that mailbird doesn't show me the content of DW/LJ replies when I click on them. Seriously. This should not be so hard.

I've just came back from taking Megan to the vets with Kayleigh. It was a much better visit than last time. She's put on a big chunk of weight and her eye is much better. Though we had to see a locum vet who came down last minute from Scotland. There may have been accent issues between us all. Oh well, at least we all talked cat.

It's mam's birthday on Sunday. She would have been 70 and instead of the family meal she was starting to provisionally plan, we're going to eat fish and chip at her favourite beach restaurant and then scatter her ashes. It's forecast to be warm and sunny again, which is going to make the scattering a bit of an issue in terms of being discrete. It's why we're going as late as possible so hopefully most of the families will be gone. Corey will be there too, and it's going to suck, and I'm going to cry but I think we're going to be laughing, too. It's a place mam loved loads, the last place we went with her where she was happy and content. It's the right place to do it, but man, I'm tired of saying goodbye.

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[frausorge]

I hope the exercises do their thing and you get the benefit!

And I wish you well for the scattering. Maybe your mom and mine will meet somewhere in the ocean.

[turps]

Me too. They're relatively easy to do but time-consuming. But I really do want to be able to reach behind my back again without feeling I'm being stabbed in the shoulder.

That is such a lovely sentiment. It made me smile this morning.

[pensnest]

Can you do the physio while you read stories? That would make the whole thing less unpleasant—though I suppose there is a risk that you'd stop concentrating on the exercises, if you need to concentrate.

That sounds like a good ceremony/celebration/goodbye. I hope you do laugh as well as cry.

*hugs*

[turps]

I think I need to watch some mindless tv while doing the physio. The things I need to do are easy enough -- well, apart from the towel assisted stretch which only a sadist would have assigned -- but there's a lot of counting and pushing against door jams and walls. They're just boring really, but take up such a big amount of time.

We did laugh. It was a good meet-up, even though we didn't actually end up scattering the ashes.

[madam_beetroot]

Audiobooks/podfic is the way to go!

Sending hugs and hope that your celebration of your Mum's life goes well.

[turps]

I need to do something when doing the stupid things. They're so boring. Easy to do but insanely repetitive.

It did go well, thank you.

[glitteryv]

All the hugs, dear heart.

[turps]

Thank you ♥

[sperrywink]

Good luck with your exercises and mailbird.

ANd good luck spreading your mam's ashes!

[turps]

Thank you!

Well, in the end they didn't get spread, but it was still a nice day.

[turlough]

You have all my sympathy. Exercises are so boring but so needful. I'm keeping everything crossed your shoulder will soon be as good as new!

Good luck with the new email client! (If there is something I really hate it's having to change mail and web programs. You get used to them working in a certain way and then you suddenly have to learn completely new ways of doing the same things. So frustrating!)

I hope today went well! *hugs you a lot*

[turps]

They are boring. The last set I'd do in the morning, at noon and just before my bath. Working in another set has been difficult.

Yes! It is frustrating. I keep reopening thunderbird and hoping it will work, but nope. I mean, mailbird isn't bad. It's doing everything I need. It just doesn't look right.

It went okay, happy and sad as was expected.