I know that many of my friends from the "good old days" at AMP read my blog. Several are women I see rarely, perhaps every year or so. Our lives have all taken different turns so it's not easy to get together often, but it's always a good time when I get to see one of them. Anyway, imagine my surprise when Gayle sent me an email Saturday night telling me that she was taking Monday (today) off and she would like to come over, help me through the afternoon exercises, and just catch up. Wow. Can I tell you that these were the fastest 3 hours ever. We talked about so many things: people we both know, vacations, families, and just caught up on our lives. Meanwhile, I did my exercises which always go so much better with someone here. I pushed hard, she couldn't believe I was doing so good, and the conversation made the torture go by quickly. Not only that, she's coming back tomorrow too! Many, many thanks Gayle! I can't believe you're coming back for Round 2!
I checked another goal off my list. Last night I slept in my bed upstairs. I think it was the best night of sleep I've had since the surgery. This may not seem like a big thing, but I was nervous about it. With the hospital bed I can raise the foot of the bed and sometimes it's the only thing that makes me comfortable. But, I had no problems and I strung together 3 straight hours of sleep. I am so excited.
This is my last week of PT and today I had an hour of pool therapy and an hour with Nate. The pool deal is really cool. You stand in the middle of the pool "cover" and hold on to a bar and the entire cover lowers you into the water. There are two cameras so you get a projected view of exactly what's going on under the water. The Pinnacle Health facility at the old Osteopathic hospital is really nice. Apparently they have an inpatient rehab facility there too. Anyway, the girl was very nice and she showed me many different exercises to do in the pool, then she turned on the treadmill. I want one of these - it's really something, and these pools are made in Middletown of all places. So I walked forward, sideways, and backwards on the pool treadmill. That was much more fun that walking through the Central Penn pool will be, and warmer too! The therapist gave me several sheets showing all the different exercises so I can do them on my own.
I left there and went to the Bloom Center where I do my PT. It is located right behind the hospital. Nate hurt me bad but the measurements didn't change from last week. So now I'll only be doing the strength exercises once a day. I'll be doing all the flexion exercises twice a day and then every hour or so (about 6 times a day) I will pick one of the flexion exercises and do it for about 5 minutes. Trying to give these knees some extra encouragement. I hope something works because it is discouraging to work so hard and not see progress. Nate insists it will get there. I hope the hell he's right.
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