Chapter 165 - The Play Continues

If it wasn't for her enthusiasm, I may not have done Wii Fit exercising EVERY evening for the past 5 weeks. And I feel that I must continue for her sake because she has improved. I just tend to be lazy and in need of direction. Her frustration is frequently evident when she is unable to achieve much of a score with the Tilt Table, heading the football (I don't remember its name) and fails completely with the Hoola Hoop, only achieving perhaps less than 10 turns in either direction. Strangely, she excels with the "penguin eating fish" exercise with which I am mediocre and I am also driven mad by the theme music. She maintains her balance better than I do in the waist twisting exercises. Although it wrenches me when she shows frustration with the hoola hoop and tilt table. Strangely, she "burns" very little energy while jogging, and that annoys her, since she sees Wii Fit as a method to shed weight, even though I tell her balance improvement is much more important at this time.

I am sure she has improved her gait, I think she stands better and her confidence in her mobility has improved if I can believe this is inferred by her "forgetting" to always carry her CB radio where ever she goes. She has been sleeping much better as well, except that over the last week she has experienced tingling, circulation problems in her arms, especially the right, while she is in bed asleep. This often happens to me as well yet in her case the effect results in burning pain from shoulder to fingers and usually takes some time to dispel, usually by getting up. She has an specific sore point on her right shoulder blade that can be relieved by use of a vibrator. I suspect some of this problem may be a mild form of RSI due to playing a couple of games of Wii Bowling each evening. After not Bowling for an evening or two she thinks the pain has eased. So last evening I suggested she attempt to bowl with her left hand. Doubtful about her ability to use her left hand this way, she then went on to beat me in two games! I think I was having a bad night :-( as I am hanging onto Pro status by the skin of my teeth while she wobbles between an average about 800 (I have no idea how this score is calculated). She even had strikes and picked up spares. What I find most interesting is that when using her right hand she leads with her left leg (strange) and when she bowls with her left she still leads with her right leg (which I assume is "normal"). When we first began Wii bowling possibly half her attempts resulted in her dropping the ball and being presented with an error message that she had released the B button while not swinging her arm (a message to that effect anyway). That message is very rare now and her arm is straight as she really swings.

She became a manufactory for some two weeks embroidering & stitching things called "towel-toppers". Guess what some of you will receive as presents in the near future?

And she tells everyone how good it is that we are "doing things together" again with the Wii, instead of sitting in our respective rooms with computers & sewing/embroidery machines. It seems there are many benefits from playing these childish games than the obvious. And I am feeling better for the exercise.