back on track

Hi All - (if anyone is out there in the ether...) Had clinic yesterday and blood tests have improved; everything back on track and going up. Feeling better - though full of stiffness and aching joints. Have ENT and Neurology appointments next week - so hopefully will find out what "elevated protein" is. Have managed to organise some hydrotherapy for shoulder, which is still very stiff and limited in use - though improving by millimetres... My hydrotherapy companions are all struggling with bad shoulders or muscles that don't function. We crawl round the pool like bunch of ancient terrapins...we are given floats and rubber rings to push around -its unbelievably hard work! Lots of puffing and grimacing. I have no swim suit so turned up in a t.shirt and broadwalk shorts...oh dear, those days are long, long gone. Made my first trip out of town last weekend - Luigi was here (back in roma now) and we drove to Camber. Walked on rippled sand in our wellington boots. Seagulls, waves and rushing wind. Wide empty beach. Two dogs running along the low tide line. Six big kites skidding about the sky. Collected stones with holes. Luigi found large dead crab with handsome black pincers. Had mug of tea and cheese and tomato sandwich at the Kit Kat Cafe - sat at white plastic table and felt April sun warm my face. Blue sky with airplane trails. Laughed a lot.