A Positive Entry

• If there is one good thing about the negative effects of hospital it is that I am SO glad to be home!
• We are having beautiful weather– low humidity, a temperature of 71 and sunshine.
• The only thing left to do on my to-do list for today is to reschedule the appointment I missed with the ear, nose and throat guy.
• It is, deliberately, a very short to-do list. I am really enjoying doing nothing. Which, of course, doesn’t mean I actually DO  do nothing! But I am doing things I enjoy instead if things that have to be done. Hmmm, why are things on my to-do list things I don’t usually enjoy? It would be interesting to make a to-do list of things I enjoy doing. Read. Do some art. Read some more…
• Physical therapy is being done regularly. What works for me is to do the exercises that are done lying down first thing in the morning on my bed. I do bits and pieces of standing exercises during the day as I think of them. I am delighted that damage done to my ability to stand straight without support which was caused by no exercises while I was in hospital seems to be improving very rapidly in the days I have been home.

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier. It is not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson