Now
I don't want to burn you guys out regarding this new phase of my life
of occupational therapy and time with Nikki but it's the only thing
that seems to be happening in my life right now except traumas
regarding my electrical equipment to one sort or another. Therefore
I'm going to explore more and more this concept of electrical
stimulation. I know I wrote a little bit about this last week but I
had another week of stim. Nicky left the electrodes on longer this
week, she kept turning the power of like a mad doctor and some
Frankenstein remake. She does get a gleam in her eye but she sees my
fingers dance around. This last week we used new patches brand-new
out of the package I thought she was going to wet her parents she was
so excited. Electrode patches were so sticky I thought skin was going
to come off when she decided to rip the patches free (and that was on
my account because she was slowly parlayed the patches off which hurt
like a mother trucker so I told her to do the fast rep) and she did.
No flesh was hurt and I was rubbing the spot but I don't know from
the adhesiveness of the patch on electrical stimulation is also
burning. I did see any smoker anything so I guess that's okay.
I'm
excited that the level of excitement that Nikki exhibits in me. Each
week we tackle a new area it seems like. This last week Nikki seemed
a bit restrained, any more than once that we are exploring avenues
that are interested to me. I guess she means that if I don't feel
like developing the pincher function of my thumb and forefinger's is
important since I am getting along okay without stronger pincer
movement that they won't necessarily work on developing that
particular skill set. However, I know this means a lot to her that I
am able to do this. But the more I think about it she does have a
point I need to examine do I really want to sharpen up the skills for
don't need to that in the long run really will do me any good because
I'm getting by pretty darn good with what I've got. I think for the
time being I'm going to let this idea ride and continue to explore
other areas of occupational therapy and living independent. I don't
know if I would have her come to my apartment as I did with Casey and
he was able to see how I lived and gave me some pointers on what I
might do to increase my functionality. However, I am pretty
functional. It's not like I wanted more functionality when I entered
this area of occupational therapy I just wanted to use up the hours I
had coming to me via my insurance protocols. So exploration is the
main concept I need to explore and maybe through this exploration
will find some avenues to exploit. I mean one of the things I might
like to do is get hooked back up to a ceiling rail like we did at the
rehab facility I stayed at couple years ago. That was grand fun. I
know this is not essentially supposed to be fun but that's how I'm
going to treat it. Good use of my hours and have some fun and maybe
if I get some functionality and maybe even some stretching out of it
all the better…
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