| About me |
I am a member of BNm Blackpool & Fylde Sun club, and attend the weekly Glasgow swim on a very regular basis – currently I am up to 2 miles swimming, I have been to Fuerteventura on a regular basis, spending every day on the beach, but till now have always stayed in a textile hotel. I have keratoconus in both eyes, which is irregular corneas – instead of a cone, one eye has a very steep curve on it, the other had lots of mini mountains. I had a corneal graft in 2005 on my left eye due to it being very unstable. I now wear contact lens, and have done for the past 25 years, this helps to stabilize the cornea form doing anything bonkers – The left eye has been very unstable – in the early days I used to go to the opticians every 2 weeks to try and sort it, eventually I was sent to Manchester eye hospital, who then put me to through the op. fortunately the graft has been very stable – every visit to the opticians they comment on how good the graft is. I ow have 20 20 vision thanks to the lenses – but have a -3 prescription in the left eye, and -14 in the right eye – before the op I had -22 in the left eye so a massive improvement. As a teenager I used to play rugby to a decent level, unfortunately my eyesight got to the stage of not being able to see the ball. being a prop that should not have mattered too much, apart from sometimes when i was a bit behind play, I could not see where the action was…. I was very active in my 20s and early 30s,. spending at least 4 nights a week in the gym, doing lots of winter mountaineering, and spending time in the Alps mountaineering, culminating in 2007 in a trip to Greenland for a month of sea kayaking and Mountaineering, I also used to to a lot of windsurfing. Since moving to Carlisle, i have put a load of weight on, doing a lot less stuff, coming to a head this last summer, when I had a big swelling in my right leg, plus a bout of sickness for about two weeks. After a trip to the Doctors, they managed to convince me (or I did it myself) to change my lifestyle, I have for the past year been losing weight. from 25 Stones, currrently at 20 stones. Ideally I would like to be about 16 stones by september 2013, so still plenty to do, but as I get lighter, I do do a bit more – currently as well as the swimming I also manage to walk between 10 and 15 miles per week. I am looking forward to getting back into the hills again this summer. For me I started out to naturist lifestyle in my 20s. going to the beaches round Barrow, and occasionally to Morfa Dyffryn, I had to the odd holiday to Lanzarote to do some windsurfing, but on a low wind day I discovered Papagayo beach, and loved it. Since coming back from Greenland, I fancied a warm weather holiday, since then I have been holidaying in the Canaries every year, normally in winter as this is a quiet time at work, but sneak in the odd last minute summer break too
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