As for PT, I do better walking, still with my walker mind you outdoors and find I'm slowly being able to put more weight on my operated side. I've had to back off on the PT exercises for now.. they make me too sore.. last session took 4 days to recover from :shk:
Sylvia, I appreciate your message today. I got up this morning to make it to the P.T. at 8:30 am, and I am too sore to get there. I can hardly put weight on the leg at this moment. I lean on myself to make it-I question my motivation, but I feel like I'd do better to stay at home
today, sit on some heat and try to move around "a bit". So there is something about
self acceptance at hand here
again. I appreciate hearing your experience, which at this moment is affirming,though I do hope your setback is only a rest on the road to recovery.
I
will pile in the car later (I think now) and get to my sitting job where I will encourage
other people to accept where they are at in
their moment and work from there to improve their lives.
-just called the P.T. to cancel, and he was accepting, approving and encouraging with
my game plan. Of course he is close to my age, so he may be a bit more understanding than some of the younger, Marine-trained P.T.'s. I'll try to take another run at it (P.T.) on Thrusday. Good God, Jim, don't say "run"!
I never met a
calm Jack Russel that wasn't on drugs, so I'm glad to you have the exception. I like that rumble seat you have on the walker. Are the dogs able to pull to the store in that thing? A Psychologist friend of mine leashes his two dogs to an adult tricyle and they pull him through his neighborhood. He says the secret is to tie them to the rear wheel where they come even to him and he still has control of the bike. -sounds like an good opportunity for more injury to me...
-just had to throw the ball a bit from my chair through the house for Pete :dogkiss:. I have a pretty good throwing arm (I used to pitch baseball) and only rarely hit a lamp. Pete expects a treat about every 6th throw. I think he would experience the real retreiving of hunting as too demeaning.
I'm rambling, I know, but it occurs to me that beyond the shared experience, that the sharing with you all on this site
as an only child has been more than helpful to me even when answers are not avialable. They say we (only children) are spoiled, and maybe that's so, but I think we also have an inclination to think on our own. That's great for entertaining ourselves (I used to be able to throw a ball to, and for myself), but it's not so good when we are distressed or we just...well, come up with a hair-brained idea, which I am entirely capable of doing. So it can leave us in an internal
isolation. Sometimes counselors are the worst at this-assessing the world, but not themselves. Maybe
younger only children are utilizing the
social network much more. But for me, the personal sharing here has been a real blessing. I hear that this morning in spite of the my pain and frustration.
I hope that my long, exposed, internal dialogue is not irrelevant here. Perhaps we just need to share acceptance and approval for our "backing off" :cnsl: -that, and my desire to express my condolances with your losing your Dad.
I do hope you-we can find a new, active start tomorrow.
Jim