Monday's mouthful

I don't really quite remember but I think I told you last week that I was discharged from my physical therapist. I'm done with the little bit of physical therapy that I was able to get the last couple weeks. The first PT I've had and I don't know how many decades. It wasn't really robust or a lot of heavy duty stretching and things like that - - which I really think I could use - but it was some range of motion stuff really made me think of the old days of physical therapy when I was going every day during the work week and getting really physically stressed as far as physical therapy went as far as stretching and really getting a workout. I'm not sure how much longer I will have occupational therapy in fact I think it will be done in two more sessions one of which will be like an exit interview or I'll meet with the head OT who will do the major last evaluation and close that chapter. This has been a little bit more valuable I think in the long run. Like I've said before they're the silly little exercises I thought were silly but now that I'm looking at them in a little bit more adult role and how they might affect me if I just let them and I feel a lot different like I'm doing something very positive something that will really assist me in the days to come. I think I've noted more than once about how I feel I'm losing different abilities partially because of my chair and partially because of my age. I think the wheelchair itself the power chair is just beginning to him me in. Something's different I can't really do the Arches I used to to be able to get dressed completely I can't seem to get my right hip up high enough to easily pull my shorts on like I used to be able to no I have to be content with just looking like I'm dressed but knowing deep down that I'm not. Thank goodness for the concept of psychological closure for the brain tends to finish something that it wants to see finished. So even if I'm not completely dressed, if one looks closely one could see that but bottom line it does not look close enough and I come off being dressed and I can get by tomorrow for instance I'm going into my assist meeting which will mean I have to look somewhat presentable. I've got a set of clothes that I can use that I can pull this off with then when I pile on my bag and my stick and my hook and all the other things I use when I travel I should look okay. I don't think I have anything else scheduled for the rest of the week so then I can just hang around the apartment and Redwood Road and be just fine.

My brother came over tonight to help me with my power chair. There is a part of my chair that came up missing. This part is what really led to the problems I was having with the chair this last week. I had the pieces together on the chair but somehow I lost the one peace I peace I needed to hook the one part of my chair to the other. My brother was able to figure that out - - I really couldn't - - and we end up cannibalizing a part off of my backup chair. This means I have to get another part now from u c a t or some other organizations that will allow me to fix the other chair now that I've dismantled part of it. This is totally doable and I really must force myself to do this so that I can have a backup chair when I need it. Having won this last couple of months has been a major positive solution to problems I've been having. Sadly I think these problems will continue cuz we haven't got a real deep fix on my problem with just to order and get the new chair. I keep getting pulled back from this need. HopefullyThat too will be remedy relatively