What the bloody hell can I do???????????

[Beanfield]

Day 4 post surgery. I am bored out of my skull and have 8 solid weeks to fill.

I’m a bit odd at the mo as i have the concentration span of a privet hedge so keep flitting between Netflix, book, crochet and sleep. Can’t drive for a few weeks at least.

What on can I do?

I'd love to have time to sort all my photos into photo books.

Also agree with doing an online course.

Enjoy it whatever you decide to do!

I’m with jigsaw app. I often do a jigsaw and listen to podcast on iPad when want to wind down but don’t feel want to start a programme or film. Loads great apps

I had 14 weeks off after an accident once. I was like you after 4 days.

However.

I realised that the in and out of the real world was because I needed to rest.

I would plan my week around my weekly trip to the hospital, around food making in the afternoon, and the rest, i just watched reruns of Seinfeld on the TV, and doing sudoku, and sleeping. I made up the sofa into a day bed, and if I felt dozy, I just slept.

It went really quickly in the end.

I totally feel your pain; I'm presuming you had a GA - which actually will be in your system for a while and tends to have the effect of reducing concentration - I was exactly the same.

Go easy on yourself - just do what you fancy in the moment, have lots of box sets etc... ready as your concentration WILL gradually improve. I ended up doing a lot of writing and ultimately wrote a book while I was stuck in bed - there was only so much of other people's work I could enjoy before I had the urge to write my own - rather than relying on other people's creativity to see me entertained, I created my own and because it was mine I could make it as interesting and as exciting as I liked! :-)

Learn BSL!

I'd like to say I'd learn a language or a skill but what I'd actually do is watch West Wing (again) frpm the beginning

Read the Penis Breath thread.

Family history?

I’m a bit odd at the mo as i have the concentration span of a privet hedge

So online courses may be tricky?

Just play online games. Once you start planning moves it'll get your brain working. And listen to lots of music.

How about crocheting for charity - blankets for Africa, Hats for people having chemo, clothes for tiny angel babies -
www.lovinghands.org.uk/charities/4589419365

Whilst eating Christmas snacks and watching an enormous box set - greys anatomy could keep you going for months and needs no attention span.

Listen to podcasts and audio books
Make a mega bucket list of things to do before you really die
Look at holiday brochures to plan next year
Make pinterest boards for redoing the house
Have a youtube binge of songs from your youth. (I love doing this.)
Write old fashioned Christmas cards

If you're at home, get someone to bring you a bin bag, a box and a drawer of stuff that needs sorting - kitchen drawer or sock drawer. You could kondo the house without leaving your bed.

Marvelous.

More Netflix
On-line course thing
Plan the rest of my life
Photos
Cooking
Write a book

I’ll do that after a nap. I think I peaked too soon

Link for penis breath please? Is it as good as penis beaker? 😂

Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind while recovering in hospital. It was her first book, so previous experience isn't a prerequisite.

Christmas crafting?

At this time of year you can watch loads of cheesy Christmas movies - the beauty is you don't really have to concentrate at all, because they all follow the same kind of script! We have a thread here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3434411-Christmas-film-adoration-and-rant?pg=1!

Here's the Penis Breath thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/3440270-Penis-breath-on-girlfriend, but I think it's going to be zapped soon.

Duolingo is great for languages, and you can do as little as five minutes at a time. I am now fluent in "I eat ice cream for breakfast" in four different languages.

There is a book called Logic Puzzles, which was a life saver for me when I was in Hospital. It was only a £2 something but was quite challenging and stimulating.

Do an edX course in something you've always wanted to learn! Or something strange and exciting just cause it piques your interest! I'd love an enforced holiday where I could do an online course.
You can learn astronomy, business skills, DNA, computing, languages, random things like the art of happiness.... it's so endless!

Read.
Cryptic crosswords - or learn how to.
Michel Thomas or Rosetta Stone learn a language apps.
Listen to books on Audible.
Craft project.
Sudoku.

Computer games (I play sims 4 or theme hospital on pc, civilization, hay day on ipad)
Colouring
Puzzles
Reading
Box sets on telly
Sell stuff on ebay
Make lists
Do budgeting
Plan holiday
Duolingo
Forums (money saving expert, mumsnet)

rightmove - look up all their kitchens & decorations & criticise! read papers on line

Learn a second language? Random I know but could be fun and mentally stimulating.

God, that sounds like absolute bliss to me at this moment in time.

Ooh you should learn how to do that matched betting thing I keep reading about on here.