I’ve somehow managed to set 2025 off to a bit of a flyer, not quite the start I’d anticipated with the hangover of 2024s end of year cardiac disaster.

While I’ve not been able to get to the gym and push gymhab as anticipated I did have one big day of renewed therapies.

I returned to the hydrotherapy pool, some 10 months after my last visit which had always been primarily leg based at that point.

The difference from then to now was like night and day, so much more shoulder (and some arm) activity. The hydro assistant noted my nice movement and even speed in the water. It felt great, I loved someone else noticing the same as me; I think having someone else note it is a reassurance and huge boost.

Later that day I met with a new private physio: S2 who is new to the local area, we’d had some bits of communication beforehand and he told me he’d read a lot of my blog to get a feel for me before we met, it was great to enter into a new relationship with someone who had a good idea about me, I often get bored of repeating my health history.

S2 was full of ideas and testing what I could do. My favourite being when I told him I had zero bicep movement and then with minimal assistance got a decent movement “you’ve lied to me Ben you have got movement there” I did a little embarrassed giggle.

We followed up after the session with some communication together during which S2 said there is definite potential to continue and develop. I’ve taken that small bicep movement and elbow flexion and kept repeating it, remembering my entire leg movement came from a toe wiggle

The following day after big physio I had a chat with a wise person who told me I was doing “ all the right things.”not just in physio but my wider goals and tasks too.

I sometimes, in fact I regularly, need those positive words and encouragement. There’s only so often I can tell myself it’s going to be ok without other people joining in, I especially appreciate if they are professionals in their areas and people I respect

Sometimes just one drop is all it takes
One drop is all that it takes
See the ripples, watch them turn to waves
Right before your eyes
You never know who it might touch
And soon it might be all of us
Maybe there’s a world that you can change
So start a wave

• Start a wave – Cody fry