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| The folks at Tidewater Physical Therapy, Milton, DE (Pat, Melissa, Kathy, Richard and ME!) |
Just fine. I was informed this week by Rich, my physical therapist that I only have four more visits (two next week and two the following week). Then I'm on my on.
I can walk unaided without a cane now and I'm here to tell you I am might happy about that fact. I still have a slight limp, which will gradually dissipate as time goes on. However, I still have to be very careful that I don't twist my leg by turning around too fast or else I'll be back to Square One. And I DON'T want to go there again.
It's ironic but I was dreading physical therapy but my three times a week sessions (one hour each) have proven to be most beneficial to me. Not only in helping me to get back to normal physically but mentally. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was quite freaked out when I first injured my leg way back on February 18th, by falling on the ice and rupturing (severing) my quadricep muscles in my left leg. I had no use of that leg and feared that I never would again.
You know how they something good always comes out of something bad? Well, that's what happened here with me when I had that terrifying accident that left me totally dependent on Bill and others for survival. Not only do I have a new awareness of the appreciation of good health and being able to move around on my own but I also have a new patience for others who are handicapped. Never again will I be impatient with a person of less than mobile means who is slowing me down during my regular routine.
And you know something else that happened during my ordeal? I made new friends, the physical therapy folks (Richard, MacKenzie, Melissa, Kathy, Olivia and Suzanne). I look forward to seeing them everyday and I will miss them when I no longer return.
So here is the prognosis for me folks:
My leg won't be completely healed for about a year. I still can't kneel and wash my tiled kitchen floor. And I certainly can't "hop, skip an jump" as the questionnaire that I have to complete every two weeks at physical therapy requires me to fill out. But I can get around on my own. And I can drive my car! And what a wonderful, precious freedom that is.
Now I'm ready to go for a significant stretch of time in which I have NO health issues. The past few years have been quite an adventure for me with my health issues. But then I always think, three of my close friends died this year. It can always be worse. So now I am ready to jump back into Life with both feet, or at least step in gently.
So here is the prognosis for me folks:
My leg won't be completely healed for about a year. I still can't kneel and wash my tiled kitchen floor. And I certainly can't "hop, skip an jump" as the questionnaire that I have to complete every two weeks at physical therapy requires me to fill out. But I can get around on my own. And I can drive my car! And what a wonderful, precious freedom that is.
Now I'm ready to go for a significant stretch of time in which I have NO health issues. The past few years have been quite an adventure for me with my health issues. But then I always think, three of my close friends died this year. It can always be worse. So now I am ready to jump back into Life with both feet, or at least step in gently.
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| Me with friends David and Scott - David was also going to physical therapy and we happen to run into each other at the supermarket after my physical therapy session - I no longer have my cane! |