Later Today

Something quite interesting happened at physical therapy today.

After I had finished squats and pliès, Candace brought a squishy foam pad for me to stand on and I had to do an exercise that involved moving my full weight from one leg to the other. Now, this is one I don’t do at home and when I have done it at the PT place, up to today, I have always had to hold on to something because I felt the left leg might collapse under me. So, today I started shifting weight from one side to the other and I suddenly realized I wasn’t clutching onto the bar I used for support as much as I used to. So I lifted my hands and just used the index fingers for balance. That worked so I lifted my hands entirely and was able to shift weight from one leg to the other using only the toe of the opposite foot for balance. Silly though this sounds, this little victory cheered me immensely. I know that physical therapy improves  the body only slowly. {And if I didn’t know it before, Candace has told me so many times that this is a "journey, not a race" that I DO know it now! } But it seems to me that perhaps in this last week, there has been a spurt foreward– a little spurt, but a spurt nonetheless.

When I got home, Fred was still out buying groceries so I stayed off the bed until he came back with the stuff he had bought.  When he got here, I went out and got the lighter bags and he carried the heavier ones into the kitchen and I put everything awys. THEN, I went and collapsed on the bed!

Tomorrow I will wash clothes and study Italian. I cannot work on my ceramic assignment because there is no open studio on Saturday. However, I can work on Sunday morning and I will. And the studio is also open on Monday all day so I can have a couple of hours there, too.

I am ridiculously pleased about this small improvement in my legs!

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht, 1933