good day

Running, again

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Is exhilarating.

Is freeing.

Is a release.

Is the best.

Recently my trainers started to fall apart, so my body ached too much to run in them, got new trainers and it feels like I’m running on air.

I’m back in my flat. Yay!

Getting the trainers was a unique experience, as normally going into a shop and trying on random items would be too contaminating for me to do. Not this time, being unable to run was so important that it was worth taking the risk. That, and I cheated a bit by using a sedative to make me less anxious.

I’m in a good mood 🙂 🙂 🙂

P.S. I’m not technically a runner, its more of a series of sprints rather than one long run.

A good day, for me… (2)

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Did a post with the same title months ago, but what a good day is has changed, again, I’m on a pysch ward now!

  • I wake up and get up at 07:00-08:30
  • My room is reasonably tidy.
  • Have breakfast (first time in months today)
  • Go on my laptop as a distraction (lockdown, so I can’t go out that much)
    • Wipe the outside of the laptop (its been on the side in the staff office) with disinfectant wipes and my table (splash on with water)
  • Have lunch, but served before any other patients to avoid “contamination”
  • Go out for one walk of at most an hour
    • This is enforced by the staff not letting me off the ward more than once in a day, and keeping track of how long I’m out for and (they’ve stopped now) bringing up the spectre of discharge to persuade patients/me to comply.
  • Read/play/something on my phone/laptop until dinner time (17:00)
  • Speak to family or friends over the telephone/snapchat/skype/texts/etc.

The previous “Good day” post is here.

This post isn’t focussed on “basic” items like the previous post was, that is partly because the ward ensures that “basic” stuff, like eating/getting food, clean sheets, etc is done – so I don’t need to worry about it.