• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Well, that day didn't go to plan.

Pete Maddex said:
We taped a bag to the wife’s foot and put a plastic step stool in the bath for her to sit on, while she showered. I did the same but with a dustbin bag in my leg.

Pete
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I clambered into the bath and left my booted foot up on the side.
 
Twelve weeks to the day after my operation, I've just had my first drive. I did a couple of emergency stops as a test, found that was OK, and drove in to the shops to buy my wife some flowers. I wouldn't want to go much further than the 4 or 5 miles I did, but that's a huge step forward in the process of normalising life. Another is that I have been allowed onto a static bike. I won't be allowed to ride a bike on the road for another couple of months, but at least I can start knocking myself back into shape. Oh, and standing heel raises. After a couple of weeks of all my exercises being seated, it's nice to do something standing up. I'll be doing them for years...
 
AndyP said:
Good to hear.
I guess the difference between static bike and road bike is just the risk of falling off then?
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Yes. Putting my foot down quickly in an emergency at the moment would likely put me back to square one, if not to the operating table. Also, I can't really put any power through my achilles, so any sort of hill or acceleration would be all but impossible.

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In another first, I've just taken little Martha for her first ever walk.
 
Mike G said:
any sort of hill or acceleration would be all but impossible.
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I know the feeling, I have to get off and push my bike uphill, and I haven’t got any issues, Norfolk isn’t as flat as people think.

Onwards and upwards Mike.
 
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