More PT

Last time I went to physical therapy, I finished by riding the stationary bicycle and I didn’t do too well because I was tired. I was thinking I would ask to do that first today because I knew if I wasn’t tired, I could do the ten minute. However, before I could say a word, Leslie said, "Would you like to try the stationary bike first?" So, I did 3 minutes with a 30 second break, another 3 minutes, another short pause and then 4 minutes to finish. The hardest exercise was the one like lunges only done lying on my back on a machine with a bar at the end where I put my feet. I had done this the last time I was there but she really upped the tension this time and she was constantly saying "Flatten your back!" Actually, I quite enjoyed flattening my back because it eased the pain I have been having there! The rest of the session was doing the same exercises as last time but more of them!

After that, I drove up to the grocery store we use because there is also a branch of the bank there. I cashed the two checks, which means I have a bit more money in my purse than the lone $20 bill I have been looking at for six weeks–and then went to get a gallon of milk. On the way to the milk, I spotted some beer that Fred likes so I picked it up for him as a little thank-you present from me because he has been so helpful to me, {And because I love him and like buying him gifts }

Because I always do so, I had parked at the far end of the parking lot of the grocery store not realizing how difficult it would be to push a cart and use a stick and not realizing that I really was now beginning to feel the effect from the physical therapy.  But I slogged on, lurching around in a most ungraceful manner, got the milk and the beer and then drove home. I had just about enough energy to get the milk and beer into the house before I was totally ready to fall over! Fred very kindly got me my lunch and I have spent the rest of the day resting/dozing in the air conditioned bedroom.

Things I want to do tomorrow:

• try for half a mile of walking
• do the assigned physical therapy.
• find my bathing suit or something I can wear for physical therapy in a pool on Thursday
• do a last sweep through the house for library books
• write the rent check for next month’s rent
• go to the library
• read!

QUOTATIONS:

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

Michael Jordan

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

— David Viscott

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