Comments | fajrdrako: Everything changes, everything comes to an end...

fajrdrako

Everything changes, everything comes to an end...

Dec 15, 2010 15:02

I had my last physiotherapy appointment today. Good-bye to Leslie the physiotherapist, who gave me a full assessment: I'm getting strength back in my left arm and shoulder faster than she expected, though from my point of view it's still weak as half a kitten. She said that when she first saw how badly damaged my arm was, she pretty much freaked ( Read more... )

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dewline December 15 2010, 20:10:38 UTC

So you've already exceeded her expectations and hopes. That bodes well for future efforts, carefully undertaken.

Hope is good. Hope grounded in fact, better still...and that's what you've got now.

fajrdrako December 15 2010, 21:58:28 UTC

Yeah. I can only imagine how much worse it might be. Here I am, typing as if nothing ever happened!

mmegaera December 16 2010, 01:06:14 UTC

I remember my last PT appointment for my shoulder. My PT asked, "am I going to have to kick you out of here or will you leave on your own?" I was a bit disconcerted, but then I looked up at her and she was grinning at me.

She and I had a good relationship, considering she was 10% sadist [g]. And she got me functional again, almost in spite of myself, for which I will always be grateful.

fajrdrako December 16 2010, 01:47:36 UTC

I think physiotherapists have to be a little bit sadistic, hurting us for our own good. Leslie was great, and I'll miss her. Her advice always made me feel better.

catalenamara December 16 2010, 04:05:19 UTC

I've been mostly off LJ for ages so didn't read about your fall and surgery until now - {{{{{hugs}}}}}! Good luck for your continued recovery...!

fajrdrako December 16 2010, 14:38:03 UTC

Thanks so much for the kind words. So nice to see progress... I know it isn't really a long time as healing goes, but it feels like it.

So now - back to my exercises!

raissad December 16 2010, 05:04:01 UTC

Congrats and good luck. :)

fajrdrako December 16 2010, 14:36:53 UTC

Many thanks. I'm just taking a break from exercises to look at LJ... it seems all the more important to do my exercises now I don't have professional help with them.

filkferengi December 22 2010, 16:47:17 UTC

Can you do exercises while reading LJ?

fajrdrako December 22 2010, 20:14:40 UTC

I haven't found a way. The exercises involve a lot of concentration, so doing anything much else while doing them is counterproductive. Audiotapes and music work, generally, but I find there's no point doing it with the TV on - I miss whatever it is entirely.

And reading anything just wouldn't be possible.