Hello @VBartoszuk - Welcome to the community and thank you for sharing your stroke story. It is good to learn from others how they cope with their situation especially if they are doing unusual things.
It seems to me you have been incredibly resilient since you had your stroke last July and having chosen to swim you have made very good progress in your recovery.
Doing 3000 steps is commendable and I am not sure how many people, stroke survivor or not achieve this 
I wish you success in your new goal of reaching the bus stop so you can visit the shops. I expect it might not be too far away.
I thank you for learning me a new word. On this forum we have a thread where people post new words following on previous post and I have only just missed the opportunity to post the word you taught me today, so I will take the liberty to post it here together with a link of the other thread in case you might be interested in joining us and maybe teaching us a little about your interest in medieval texts
Platitudes - a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful, perhaps a little bit like my posts on this here forum 
Welcome to the community!
Namaste|
