Little bit by little bit I think I'm somewhat getting better as far as my injured left arm goes. The bruises are going away and if I don't stress the arm out it doesn't hurt just hanging there and I think that's progress. I did notice last night and this morning that if I tried to really use the trapeze above the bed I really aggravate that muscle system. I'm still somewhat suspect that I have damaged that musculature system somehow. I probably really need to have it looked at and supposedly I have a May appointment with Physicians and maybe I can have them look at it if it's still bothering me. All I know is that it takes me awhile to get up but I'm very careful and don't hang on the trapeze I could get it to my chair and then once there I can negotiate the rest of the transfer eventually. I did fairly well on my dressing this morning I feel that's encouraging. I have my slick shorts for tomorrow so hopefully I can get dressed well within the time limit I have if I wake up at 5:30 or 6:00 a.m.. I still don't even entertain the idea of putting on shoes but I'll just see what I can come up with the time frame that I have to work with. Remember last week Mark had to come over and dress me. I hope I will be better tomorrow at least better than I was today.
I'm feeling a little guilty not utilizing my arm bike like I have been the last couple months or years for that matter. The arm trauma for some reason has really affected my ability to use the crank on the armbike especially doing the push-up part of the hand cycle. Coming down on either side's not that painful but pushing up is another issue. I'll give it till Monday and then try again on Monday to see if I can get some exercise and therefore some better sleep. Maybe I'll have to work up to 200 minute weeks again once I start being able to use the crank more efficiently unless painful to the bicep and other pieces of muscle that seemed to have been impacted by something I've done. The power chair however is not as bad as it was especially since my brother affixed the foot boxes on the chair. I'm putting a lot of stress on the left foot box and I don't know if I can do anything else about that just be more careful. I've inadvertently drove my chair into walls and stuff just getting around in the morning for instance. That's all I would need to do is to break one of the foot boxes as soon as I got them. I think Carl would just about give up on me at that point. Now I have to make a decision on whether to invest money on new batteries or better batteries for this chair I'm in now. I think the batteries are pretty weak charge wise. Today I went to the coffee shop and back and then over to the market and brought me down to about 69% charge. I think it's less than 2.4 MI which I guess actually is not that bad. I think if I have to go into my regular Tuesday meeting I should have enough power to get there and back if I don't do any messing around in between or especially on the road home. Tuesday means I will be dressing myself hopefully I'll be presentable. I just have to make sure that I have a long enough shirt tied my obesity especially on the rear right side.. I have found that if I don't do the top button up or can't do the top button up I can hide it pretty well with whatever shirt I'm wearing if I pull it over the outside of me as well as the safety belt fasten just the right way and then stuffing my cell phone in my pants. Certainly makes it easier in the evening when I need to push my shorts off. I had instructed Melissa yesterday to do that and she did not and I was surprised and quite pleased last night when that button was pretty secure and tight however I was able to maneuver my hands in such a way to be able to push the button from the buttonhole and it didn't take me nearly as long as usual too just rub and get into bed finally.a
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