Well if that's the first time you've had an argument with Astrid and Tale
@Antje77, that's pretty remarkable given the circumstances.
It is, isn't it!
Not only have I never had an argument with the both of them, I've never had one with either of them separately either (except for a 5 minute one with Tale once), and we're all people to speak our minds and not avoid arguments.
There is a tiny bit of jealousy from my side thrown into the mix, and a little fear of losing our casual eating/drinking evenings in the long run. I do spend time with Astrid alone because we swim, but I'd like to spend some time with Tale alone as well every once in a while.
We'll see.
@Antje77 am sure one day Tale will realise just who is the best partner for him (hint it won't be Astrid!
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I appreciate the thought, but I do think they can become very happy together in the future, provided Astrid will fall in love with him again and be ready for a new relationship before he smothers her with his besottedness.
I'm also very sure this won't happen between Tale and myself. There is friendship, a shared intimacy born from a need for physical contact we both had, and availability. Trust, safety, and friendship are the keywords here, not love or sexual fireworks.
Good luck with your physio appointment today. Hope it goes well.
Swimming goes pretty well, although I do notice the arm functions less afterwards. You may cross fingers this doesn't mean the physio will tell me to stop swimming tomorrow...
Physio appointment today was useful. And I get to keep swimming.
He read the whole medical file on the neurologist's findings and possible diagnoses, and reassured me that while I had been warned not to overdo things with that arm, this merely means listening to pain signals as usual, not avoiding doing things that are harder than normal but not painful either.
The warnings were likely meant to be careful not to try to make the arm do what it's normally capable of (whis is impossible anyway), and to take care to not use the working muscles in all the wrong ways to compensate.
I think I can work with this.
I also asked for his thoughts on how long (or if) before expecting improvement for each of the 3 current possible diagnoses.
Not too happy with the reply. A lot depends on what exactly is the cause, all of them are potentially reversible in the long run, but the words 'potentially' and 'long run' make me think that for now I should focus on accepting I have a rubbish arm, reaccepting I don't have a rubbish arm if/when it gets better will be much easier but better not expect it any time soon.
I had a lovely unexpected evening with a friend coming over for dinner.
He was on his way home from Germany and called to ask if he could pick up his dogs who had spent some two weeks with me.
I still had enough zuurkoolstamppot left for two, provided he bought another rookworst on the way.
It was lovely talking to someone else than Tale or Astrid for a change.
I made this one a lot 