1. January 2018 Progress Update

    My training was a bit interrupted during the last few months of 2017. The day before posting my last update I came down with a urinary tract infection (UTI), which I am prone to because of my urostomy. It required antibiotics to subdue, and I had to take it easy …

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  2. September 2017 Progress Update

    It has been a successful few months since my last post. I stuck to my routine diligently for two more cycles, before taking a two-week winter break, and then ramping things up again over another fortnight. After that, I spent four weeks experimenting with adding extra cardio to my pre-break …

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  3. April 2017 Progress Update

    My year had a slower start than hoped for. I ended up needing four weeks rest before I could face the idea of returning to my full routine, and when easing back into morning walks during the fourth week my orthosis broke. The 2.3km I walked in 29 minutes …

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  5. First Steps

    Introduction

    This is a collection of information that I think would have been beneficial for me to receive upon discharge from hospital. Some of this I knew already (yet was not told), but there are things I did not discover until much later, and I would have achieved more if …

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  6. Pain Management After Near-Death Multi-Trauma

    Part One: Pain

    Pain management is a topic I feel as qualified to write about as any layperson could. Since coming out of an induced coma in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) late in 2012, and being taught to use a Patient Controlled Administration (PCA) machine to deliver intravenous fentanyl …

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  7. December 2016 Progress Update

    The last few months have gone really well. I have been able to work at a higher level than I anticipated, sticking to an intense routine for two five-week cycles with an easier week in between. I have improved steadily across all areas, but most importantly I have been doing …

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  8. September 2016 Progress Update

    Well, the time since my last post has flown by, and I’ve been starting to feel like I’m overdue to take a quick breather from things and write an update on how I’m going.

    Winter was difficult, as expected. It has been the case each year during …

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  9. June 2016 Progress Report

    Introduction

    The purpose of this post is to summarise the progress that I have made with my rehabilitation, starting from when I first returned home from hospital, and finishing six weeks after all the major surgery I required was complete. A period of 890 days. By no means was I …

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  10. Introduction

    Towards the end of 2012, in the twenty-third year of my life, I was run over by a semi-trailer. Much to my surprise, when the back of the trailer cleared from over my head I was still alive, and instead of a morgue I was rushed off to the area …

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