Stretching, stretching I find is quite good, depending on what sort of pain it is. I, I do fast walking because I find that fast walking is far better than slow walking. Like yesterday with these friends we went to the [city] and we were ambling around the colleges, in and out of, you know, this and that and I had such a backache by the end of the afternoon. So I actually came home and I left them there. But if I do fast walking I can walk from here two or three miles. Fast walking and I’m much better and I don’t get the pain like that. So I find fast walking does help me [laugh].
It does help you?
Yeah, yeah. Swimming is difficult because although it’s very good for you I can’t do crawling, only breaststroke or backstroke so which backstroke is ok. But I would love to swim more but the [village] pool is now closed down. The private ones I can’t afford. So [laugh].
Well I, if I do my exercises I do my sister’s video, not video, the tape, her tape and you know she tells me exactly what to do. And actually that exercise is. The one which the physio showed me in the hospital that gave me the sheet for I don’t think honestly they make a great deal of difference. I mean they are mostly stretching or moving your legs sideways or you’re holding onto a chair and do gentle little things which helped at the time a little bit with the pain, you know, but I don’t think it’s, maybe it could be used also as a maintenance if I had the time for it but/or. It’s not a question of will power it is just simple I have so little time for myself that sometimes [laugh] I just like to sit and read the paper and I yeah at night I go and play bridge quite a lot. So you know I’m not around at night to do exercises then [laugh].
