Post Op Exercise

Recovery is coming along and I am looking forward to Wednesday when I can go beyond exercise 4 in my leaflet of post op exercises. These beauties lie ahead of me and after another week I will be able to do some almost yogic stretches too.
I have been blessed by the love, care and kind thoughts and prayers which I have received and am convinced that the kind thoughts of others have helped me make this Op' so easy to recover from this far, I send truly deep thank yous to everyone who has sent their love and wishes, I am sure the vibes have reached me and helped me!

Today is the last day I have the luxury of Jezz and Mum at home. It has been lovely, however, I am pleased that Jezz will be in London when I move on to exercise seven if this is what I got for exercise two over breakfast today!😂

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