While I can't say that the outside world (i.e. work) is particularly making me happy, I have no complaints about everything else. Family, friends, and even physical therapy are humming along nicely and happily. I worked hard today at school--pushing and pulling furniture here and there. When was the last time you moved a full filing cabinet across a room? That should count as part of my physical therapy, don't you think?
Speaking of physical therapy, I received some devastating news at my PT session this afternoon. You may remember that I had PT this week, and then one more session next Monday before my visit to the surgeon on Wednesday. Today, however, after being put through all my paces, my therapist said I was doing so well that I didn't need next Monday's session. She said we would take final measurements on Friday to send to the surgeon, and that would be it. Now I know that I've complained at length about the pain I have to endure at the end of every session (and I did again today), but I must admit that I've seen results from all my efforts and from the efforts my therapist has put into pushing me ever onward (and "backward"!).
Today's therapy was tiring mainly because I went to it already exhausted from the aforementioned furniture moving. I did all my usual exercises plus a few new ones, most notably lunges. My artificial knee is now, amazingly enough, the strong knee and my still-gimpy right knee really balked at the lunges. I wonder how long it will be until I get a new right knee.......
My therapy session was from 5:00 to 6:00 today, so Stan took me, picked me up, and then we dropped by Panera Bread for dinner. After all the work I did today, both at school and at PT, I was almost too tired to eat, but did manage to eat a bowl of soup. I'm now looking forward to taking a shower, then icing my knee for a while and reading for 30 minutes or so before going to bed. Big day at school tomorrow--open house!
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