The first time at Hedla rehab, (February 4, 2023 – February 26, 2023))
This is the first time I have traveled to Hedla rehab. It was exciting and a little nervous. I live in Umeå, Västerbotten and was paid entirely through the Swedish Research Fund. It is very difficult to get paid publicly.
My wife and I traveled on Saturday to the hotel Bahía Tropical. It was nice to have a little rest day at the hotel. After picking up the bags, we looked for our taxi driver. It took a while to find the taxi driver and he spoke Spanish. The trip was long, 100 kilometers east and we went along the coast to Almuñécar and the hotel.
So it was time to go to Hedla rehab. It’s enrollment at Hedla, I met the doctor, physiotherapist and speech therapist. Then we had coffee outside.
How was training at Hedla rehab then? I started at half past eight in the day. We started with training cycling outdoors. We rode according to the HIIT program. We cycled for 20 seconds, as much as we arranged and then rested for seconds. At most we cycled 7-8 sessions. It was tough. After this, we rested and had coffee outdoors.
Then there was speech therapy training, it was me and the speech therapist and we worked really hard. The program was to train for 5 hours a day. Then there was lunch and rest. After rest there was strength training and also speech therapy training.
On the weekend we had some free time. It was a trip to Torre del Diablo, which was the lighthouse to the port at Almuñécar. It takes an hour and a half to walk there, the walk is strenuous and steep.
