Weekday Routine 2016 and 2017

Intro by Greg, and then Trenna

Among the documents on Trenna’s iPad there are two called “Weekly Routine”. One is labelled “2016” and the other “2017”.

It is actually not quite as pernickety as it seems.

In this post I will reproduce both of them. In them Trenna goes into immense detail abut times she intends doing things and what looks like a very strict routine.

It is actually not quite as pernickety as it seems.

Firstly, Trenna was fully aware that from day to day she never knew what life, or her body would throw at her. Yes, she had a routine, but she knew that if her body let her down, or circumstances changed she would have to, and did, adapt.

Secondly, I believe the detail is there to ensure that Trenna could maximise her potential and maximise her contribution to the household and our relationship.

And, I also think that she listed all the things she could do in a week to confirm to herself that despite her trials and tribulations, and her disabilities she actually could achieve quite a lot.

I think documents like this, which of course were only meant for her private use, just provided a small degree of control into her life. As she says at the start of the first document “I have about 6 hours to do what I have to do, to feel ABLE.”

I hope you will find reading them as fascinating as I do.

2016

WEEKDAY ROUTINE
+
Daily Extras

Revised 22/3/16

My “Working Hours” 8:00 – 5:15 pm
Each working hour = about 45 mins for me, so I have about 6 hours to do what I need to do, to feel ABLE!

MY DAY BEGINS:
6:45
Greg wakes me, I get up, dress, do 4 min eye-lids hot flannel & massage, wash face, eye exercises & eye drop in right eye.
7:15
Breakfast + Heart + Osteo pills
7:40
We wander around & check the garden together, do teeth.
8:00
I pack fruitcake for Greg. I tidy the lounge & dining table, clean coffee machine. I try to see Greg off to work before 8.15
8:15
I do hand dishes, clean kitchen bench tops, make bed.
8:30
PAPERWORK: Check & update diary & calendar, emails & fb, send or reply to posts etc. & sort/do other paperwork, attend to appointments
9:00
Go for 30 minute walk around suburb
10:00
(1) FRENCH READ/GRAMMAR: 40 minutes

Laptop, Lectopia, CD (iPad – Music, iBooks)
10:45
MORNING TEA BREAK
Banana, morning tea, maybe watch French TV News.
11:00
(2) FRENCH NEWS – WATCH/LISTEN/REPEAT: 40 mins
11:45
30 minute OSTEO Exercise Program – Floor, Sit, Stand, Balance, Stretch, Strength
12:15
(3) FRENCH WRITE: 40 minutes of – Laptop, Lectopia, CD
12:45
Pills
1:00
LUNCH BREAK
2:00
(4) FRENCH SPEAK: – iPad & relax as I go. Allow time for, or make friend calls
3:00
Do current project or hobby
4:00
Shower, catch breath & rest after shower
4:30
Work on current project &/or house-work
5:15
KNOCK OFF, relax play WWF
6:00
Greg usually arrives home now. Heart pills & eye drops + We both have a breather.
6:30
Check TV – record, delete, add, alter times of programs – watch TV news
7:15
Dinner + Osteo Pills + chat catch-up with our day
8:15
Watch TV (Mostly sitting but must get up & move from time to time)
9:45
Take Pain Management pills
10:45
Do teeth, go to bed!
DAILY EXTRAS
1) MONDAY
Washing day – All Morning. Do 3 washing loads, more is too much.
Top-up soap & moisturiser pump packs
2) TUESDAY
Tumble dry towels, sort & put away washing.
** After dinner, choose take-away or
restaurant for Wednesday.
FORTNIGHTLY
1 fn – 30 min (5 buckets) Liquid feed garden
1 fn – 30 min dust, wipe surfaces, dry mop floor boards & little vac kitchen, bathroom, toilet, laundry
1 fn – Dinner menus + shopping list. **
DO NOT under-estimate the time needed & impact on body to do this job. I DO need 2 hours! Spread over the course of the day
3) WEDNESDAY
6:30 Dine out or take-away, choose on Tuesday night
FORTNIGHTLY
1 fn – Jan does 2hr clean then tea, cake & chat
8:45 Before Jan arrives, 35 minutes limit, I firstly do our bedroom – dust, wipe, polish all surfaces & nicknacks in all rooms – brush venetian blinds & curtains.
OR do ONE bigger job – polish wood – jiff
9:30
2 hours Jan vacuums carpets & floorboards, cleans toilet & shower & wet mops floors, Enyo mirrors, stainless steal etc…
4) THURSDAY
Hair washing + (10 mins of holding dryer above shoulders is hard on body & hands it’s fatiguing) Take a breather afterwards, Friend arvo (may need to make other arrangements for hair)
Empty internal bins for Friday’s pickup, and re-line each bin.
MONTHLY
1st Thursday of each month Greg has Board Meeting until 8pm. I have to organise my dinner
TWO MONTHLY
10.00am hairdresser

5) FRIDAY
Slow cook day 2nighters or more – curry, casserole, pie…
Thursday night, Greg do PNB part of recipe

[GM: WWF = Words With Friends of her iPad (Trenna was really good at it)
PNB = Prepare the Night Before, where I open jars or cans of do some of the food prep ahead.]

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2017

WEEKDAY ROUTINE

Revised 9/01/17
A. = ACTIVE
E. = EAT 3 HOURLY Breakfast 7:30 –
Morning Tea 10:30 – Lunch 12:30, NO Arvo Tea (Don’t fancy it) – Dinner 7:30
O. = OUT
R. = RELAXING
S. = SITTING
N.B. I need to allow 1 hour in the morning after taking heart pills & food B4 I go for a walk or exercise.
BUT, I should not do more than about 20 mins of slow activity after that hour or I will become too fatigued!
W. = WALK
X. = EXERCISE

MY DAY BEGINS
A. 15 mins Greg wakes me, I get up dress & wash.
X. 5 mins Double heel, toe – bike ride – L&R leg side stretches while doing eye lids hot flannel exercise & massage.
Wash & moisturise face. Put eye drop in right eye while doing kiss/smile exercise.
7:30
S & E. 30 mins Breakfast + Heart & Osteo tabs. We discuss & organise our day, lunch & dinner.
A. 7 mins Wander together in the garden, pinch prune, remove dead leaves, harvest, do general check.
A. 6 mins Brush/floss teeth & open up the house, rooms, blinds…
8:45 WALK/EXERCISE
A. 6 mins Change into walk/exercise gear, set up or lock up.
ALTERNATE DAYS
W. 20-30 mins Go for walk around suburb or inside/outside if weather or body not permitting.
OR
X. 40 mins OSTEO PROGRAM – floor inc. hand weights, sit, step balance, stand assist, freestyle, standing hand weights
S. & A. 15 mins Take a breather after walk/exercise, change, pack up gear…
Update diaries.
9:30 DAILY HOUSEWORK
A. 26 mins
6 mins) LOUNGE
Tidy the lounge, plump the cushions, straighten the couch, change TV mag to today’s viewing, sort out & straighten up remotes. Clear, sort & attend to mail trolley items.
6 mins) DINING
Clean & stack dining table placemats, clear table, hand wipe tablecloth & straighten chairs.
9 mins) KITCHEN
Clean up coffee machine nook & hand wash & dry coffee making utensils. Wipe & put away other dishes or stack dishwasher… Wipe over sinks. Clear & wipe over bench-tops, get out water bottle & glass & set up my ‘up-stand prep-bench office’.
5 mins) BEDROOM
Make bed, tidy shoes, hang clothes
8:45
S. 30 mins PAPERWORK
Check & update diary & calendar, emails & fb, send or reply to posts etc. & sort/do other paperwork, attend to appointments
9:20
S. & A. 30 mins Take a breather, prep morning tea
A. 30 mins Day ‘extra’ activity stuff.
10:30
R. 15 mins MORNING TEA BREAK
Tea, nuts? Downtime, so no stressful stuff now, leisure time.
11:50
S. & A. 40 mins Catch breath after exercises then do job/project which requires both sitting & active time… scanning photos…
12:30 Take pills
S. & A. 15-30 mins Prep lunch
1:30
E. & R. 60 mins LUNCH BREAK & after relax, play a game WWF, watch French News…
2:30
FRENCH SPEAK – iPad & relax as I go.
Allow time for, or make friend calls
3:00
Do current project or hobby
4.:00
A. 15 mins SHOWER N.B. Painful on hands & feet not stable, heavy going for heart!
Grab clean undies, put bath mat on floor tiles, shower cap on, carefully get Sorbolene out from under vanity cupboard & put in shower. Undress, shower carefully & gently towel dry.
Dress, brush hair, put dirty clothes in laundry drawer.
A. 5 mins Set the table.
S. 60 mins Take a breather, play WWF, check out fb or catch up with diaries.
6:00
Greg usually arrives home now.
Heart pills
We both have a breather.
6:30
Check TV – record, delete, add, alter times of programs – watch TV news
7:15
Dinner + Osteo Pills + chat catch-up with our day
8:00 pm – Bedtime: Unless I am going to an event or dining out, I do minimal activity until bedtime.
8:15
Watch TV (Mostly sitting but must get up & move from time to time)
9:30
Take Pain Management pills
10:45
Do teeth, go to bed!
DAILY EXTRAS
1) MONDAYS
A. 10 mins Swap tablecloth, kitchen towels & napkins and, as required, oven mitts, aprons & toilet mat.
A. 30 mins WASHING – 3 LOADS MAXIMUM
Put out dirty clothes, sort into 3 piles.
Load washer, unload when done, set up clothes airers, sort & de-wrinkle items & hang out.
A. 30 mins PUMP PACKS & SOAP Clean the dispensers, especially the nozzles and top-up liquid soap & moisturiser pump packs in bathroom, kitchen, laundry. Wash laundry soap tray & wipe over laundry trough & bottles.
A. 5 mins Little vac floor tiles & floorboards.
2) TUESDAYS
A. 20 mins Tumble dry towels, sort, fold & put away all washing.
O. (W & S) 2 1/2 hours Class, club, Mahjong
ALTERNATE FORTNIGHTS
(Non Jan cleaning week)
A. 30 mins Liquid feed garden – 5 buckets
A. & S. 60 mins Fortnightly dinner menus
** DO NOT under-estimate the time needed to read, research & select PNB recipes. This impacts on my body & eyes – fatigue sets in! I DO need to spread over the course of the day
(Jan week)
A. 15 + 15 mins Dust, wipe surfaces. I firstly do our bedroom – dust, wipe, polish all surfaces & nicknacks in all rooms – brush venetian blinds & curtains. OR do ONE bigger job – polish wood – Jiff
** After dinner, choose take-away or restaurant for Wednesday.
3) WEDNESDAY
6:30 Dine out or take-away, choose on Tuesday night
FORTNIGHTLY
1 fn – JAN does 2hr clean then tea, cake & chat
8:45 Before Jan arrives, 35 minutes limit, I firstly do our bedroom – dust, wipe, polish all surfaces & nicknacks in all rooms – brush venetian blinds & curtains.
OR do ONE bigger job – polish wood – jiff
9:30
2 hours Jan vacuums carpets & floorboards, cleans toilet & shower & wet mops floors, Enyo mirrors, stainless steal etc…
4) THURSDAY
A. 1 hour Hair washing + (10 mins of holding dryer above shoulders is hard on body & hands it’s fatiguing)
R. 15 mins Take a breather afterwards
A. 10 mins Empty internal bins for Friday’s pickup, re-line each bin
TWO MONTHLY
O. (W & S) 60 mins 10.00am hairdresser

5) FRIDAY
Slow cook day (2 nighters or more) curry, casserole, pie…
Thursday night, Greg do PNB part of recipe
Friend arvo (may need to make other arrangements for hair)

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