Physical Therapy

This afternoon I went to Not-Aqua physical therapy and everything went very well.

I can actually lie on my side and raise my outstretched left leg up. Not as high as the other leg, but at one time I couldn’t raise it at all. I had an interesting discussion with the physical therapist where I told her how much I missed being able to walk without a cane. Long-time readers may remember how much and how often I used to walk in Vermont and how much I loved it. While I was exercising, I was talking about this and J., the therapist, said that if I kept on working as hard as I am doing, she feels that there is a really good chance I can eventually go caneless again! I have to say I was VERY encouraged. J. told me to go out every day I could and walk for a short time holding the cane parallel to the ground so that it is there if I need it. She told me not to try and push myself too hard on this. If I can do five minutes without a cane that would be excellent at this point. She also gave me some other exercises to do.

A very interesting thing happened at the end.  J. told me that that she and P. {aqua therapy} had been talking and they agreed to ask me if I would like to continue the way I am or drop the aqua therapy and add more non-aqua therapy in its place. J. said that P. was concerned that although I  liked the water therapy, it was obvious to her that finding my way there, finding a parking place and getting to where I was going was  stressing me out big-time. And, of course, she was right. I felt a huge burden lift when J. said this and so I now have no more water therapy and more physical therapy in a place that takes me 10 minutes to drive to! There are actually two pools in this complex and I am planning on going a couple of times a week to do what I was doing with P.! I really like PT with J. She encourages me to figure out which muscle or groups of muscles are being moved by the various exercises and I find that fascinating.

Tomorrow I will look for a blank journal and check how long Google would suggest for time getting to the place where the art journal class is offered. Then I will put the address into the GPS and be ready to go on Saturday!