saturday
Kind of serendipitous that this picture was already glued in my journal to go with what I wanted to write about this morning - and the dream.
The PT yesterday went well. I liked the therapist Ellen. It did hurt, no doubt about it, when she started pushing and pulling my arm to loosen it up but it wasn't like the torture that I remembered when I had the frozen shoulder years ago. Maybe because she was more in tune with me and stopped when I made my small sounds of discomfort. So now I have 6 exercises to do 10 times each, 3 times a day for 4 weeks. If I do them properly and put heat on the shoulder before I start then it actually takes a chunk of time to do. I'm going to have to get more disciplined with a schedule then I normally am. And find a better place to do the exercises than our bedroom. I'm thinking Johnny's old room might be a good place to set up as my Therapy Room. There is a cot in the middle of the room with some space around it.
I dreamed last night that I was at a family party - the house was full of people - cousins young and old, aunts and uncles, children and old people. But I didn't recognize any of them. They were just "family". There was a hatch/hole in the floor and we were all supposed to go through the hatch into the lower level and from there we could go outside and have a good time playing and exploring the yard. Everyone was getting ready to jump down through the hole. I was very afraid and thought I would break my ankles or injure my feet. There were 3 old rope ladders hanging near the edge of the hole but no one was using them. They all just jumped. I was the last one to go. A female cousin was kind to me and said that she'd guide me down and catch me if I wanted her to. I started down but slowly and grabbed ahold of one of the ladders. It tore loose. I tried another one and it held, so then I lowered myself down by way of the ladder. No big deal. End of dream. After waking up I'm pretty sure this dream had to do with my experience yesterday with the PT.
Well, this is my new phase of life for a while - fit in those 3 exercise sessions every day. I better do one now before I leave for my Saturday meeting.