Stories from HD Families

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Stories from HD Families

“Mrs C’s goal was to push the shopping trolley

around Tesco while she’s walking. She achieved

that, even grabbing the groceries and putting

them in herself.”

“Mr T does exercise on the bike cos he

enjoys the exercise outdoors. Going outside,

getting some fresh air”.

“[…] you will lose it if you don’t use it so that’s

important Mr D has got a Nintendo Wii now so that we

can get him to play tennis and try and build it back up

again but if you sit there and do nothing you will

suffer.”

“We usually go out for a little walk most days

even if it’s just a few hundred yards up the road

you know just to keep him going.”

“Mrs F walks the dog, goes to Pilates…it’s one

of the few areas left in her life where she can

interact with people outside”

“I do treadmill and also the rowing. They’ve got

a running machine and a cross trainer so I’ve

finally managed to do all of this sort of stuff

quite recently in the last six months or so I’ve

started doing it through like a GP referral

scheme.”