Yes. It is, I think it is important to have something to look forward to because when we come out of hospital, rehab, whatever, you're in this little world of your own. You've got to get yourself back into the real world and so you've got to set yourself goals and projects and things that happen out there that you haven't been part of. You've been, you've been away from all that for a long time, so you've got to get yourself back into that and the only way to do it, I think, is to set yourself goals. Maybe little things to start with, you know, small things and then work up to bigger things, even if it's only perhaps, I don't know, just something that you can't do in the house, maybe like hovering or whatever, that you haven't been able to do. Set yourself a goal that you can actually do the hovering downstairs and upstairs all in the same day, things like that. Start off with little simple things and then work up to bigger things, you know. Maybe something that you want to do in the garden anything at all that seems complicated to you and that you think you can't do. Set yourself a goal and work towards that, even if it's very, very slowly. I think important to, to gradually work towards it and when you've done it, you'll feel very proud of yourself and you'll be able to set yourself another goal. Maybe a bigger one the next time but you'll go on and that pushes you forward and it also, when it happens after, just after stroke, I think it gets you back into the real world and that's very important. So I think goals, yes, I would say. Really, really important. |
