I have had a very strange last 4 days. Since the last chemo I have slept so much. I don't know if the chemo is the cause of the sleeping, or all the drugs. Maybe both.
The other day after 12 hours sleep I was in the wheel chair going to pee, and fell asleep in the wheel chair for over an hour. I awoke and really had to pee.
I was supposed to wear my leg to try and get the stump shrunk enough for a permanent socket, but I just went 2 whole days without even putting the leg on.
I put the leg on this morning before getting out of bed, and will try to wear it all day.
Yesterday in between naps I walked 1.5 km. I was trying different settings on the hydraulic cylinder for the knee. Today I will try walking after increasing the flexion resistance, and decreasing the extension resistance.
That leads to a much smoother walk, and looks much more natural, but it makes it harder to feel the leg position, which makes a fall much more likely.
I went to the local pharmacy where one of the pharmacists is a man that is an above knee amputee like me. He and I always chat about our problems. He is a supervisor, so gets away with chatting to a client. He has a C-Leg micro processor controlled knee. His face was all yellow, and his nose was huge.
He told me that his wife's boss was retiring, so there was a big black tie party. They arrived and he went to the free bar to get a drink for him and his wife. The bar was crowded. He got the drinks, and stepped back to give her her drink, then stepped forward to get his drink. Stepping back had put pressure on the toe, so unlocked his leg, and when he stepped forward to get his drink the leg collapsed. He fell and hit the bar counter with his upper lip just below his nose. It broke his nose, and knocked him unconscious. He woke up in an ambulance covered in blood.
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I have been playing with Google Analytics. It is a Google service to show the audience of your web pages, or blogs. It shows me graphs and data like these.
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| This shows the monthly volume of sessions for my blog by the location of the inquiring server. |
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| This shows by country for the last month. Note lots from China and Russia. These are hackers trying to take control of the web site. |
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| This page shows sessions, and bounce rate. Bounce rate is when someone accesses the blog, but doesn't stay long enough to read anything, like a hacker. I can also ask it to show the bounce rate by country, and almost all bounces are from China or Russia. This also shows number of session by city.
A session is when someone stays on the page at least for a minute. In other words, a session is probably a real person reading the blog.
I can get a much more detailed analysis if I want. Like which IP Address accessed the blog. This means I could with a little help tell who accesses the blog. It shows how easy it is for the NSA to get information on people.
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My laptop had stopped working. It was like the keyboard was broken. The internet offered hundreds of stupid and useless ways to fix it, but one guy said it could be due to a swollen battery pressing up on the keyboard, so many keys were stuck in the pressed position. That was it. I removed the battery, and the laptop works fine. Now to buy another battery.
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14:30
Temperature is 34C (93F) and I just walked without cane and without crutches, 2.02 km. Which is 2.6 km/hr.
That would be a 2 hour Parkrun. They stop timing after 1 hour. I feel I could improve maybe 10% with practice, but to cut my time in half, I just don't think so.
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