Work Harder

While I wasn't surprised at PT today to find that my flexibility was still 118, I am quite fussy with myself.  Yes, I was super busy the past couple of days with preparations for my teacher organization event, but I'm still vaguely disgusted with myself. On a more positive note, I pressed 70 pounds with just one leg and 90 pounds with both.  I got up and down from a chair 30 times in a row without holding on to anything, I climbed lots of steps, and more.  So I think I'm doing fine but over the weekend I absolutely MUST work at bending my knee more and more...and then more.

Stan stayed home today (social distancing has begun) and he seemed to enjoy working in the backyard.  By early afternoon the sun finally came out for good, so we sat in the sun (in shorts!) and soaked up a little Vitamin D.  There was a lot of cleaning up and putting things back that needed to happen as the result of yesterday's event, so I spent a good amount of time on that.  And what more can I say?  Now that Covid-19 will keep us even closer to home than usual, I fear my daily updates will become redundant to the point of being meaningless.  I will, however, keep updating until March 25 when I see my surgeon, although do forgive me if I don't update every day. 

There are still a couple of items that I should mention in my continuing review.  Tonight let's talk about toilets.  Yes, it's a tad embarrassing, but the first several weeks, bending the knees to access the toilet is quite painful and precarious.  Stan installed these rails on the toilets in our main floor powder room and in the master bathroom.  I really don't know what I would have done without them, and I heartily recommend installing these rails in at least one bathroom, and preferably in the bathrooms you use both day and night.

The powder room rails were removed yesterday morning before my teacher event, but I see no reason to remove the master bath rails quite yet.  Safety first!