More spring Blues

 It was another long cold, dark wet and somewhat windy day to be out in the elements and I was. I had a follow-up appointment at the medical center that I really needed to be to buy 10:50 a.m. this morning which meant that I was going to have to make sure my home health person got here earlier than usual so they can have all my materials and stuff done and out the door in time to catch the bus for the trip over to the Intermountain Healthcare facility which is actually relatively close. Melissa did get here about an hour earlier than usual and that helped a lot got the business done got dressed and threw on my stocking cap in my jacket and hit the road. I was not in too much discomfort but it was relatively unpleasant. I even put on my jacket halfway. Fortunately this appointment was just a follow-up appointment and it went smoothly though they did pull blood to check my medication levels and stuff to see if I needed to have more. I did grab lunch at the hospital cafeteria- I've always loved hospital food. Today I got sauerkraut dog with onion rings. This was kind of a mistake but not a bad one entirely they used good hot dogs.

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The trip home is uneventful was able to get into the apartment turn on the heater and start relaxing. My occupational therapist aide came later on she was running late but it was a good meeting and she provided a number of exercises that I would need to be doing which might help me increase my ability to be independent . Before I would have written OT suggestions as just silly things like shrugging my shoulders, turning my head one way then turning my head again the other way as much as I could the reason my hands over my head like I'm raising an imaginary barbell and other similar exercises there was a bunch of them she gave me a hand out with these written on that I need to be doing daily now. Like I said there is the time I would have seen this and just laughed the whole thing off as a scam almost but now I have a much more open mind and I think these things, if done appropriately, correctly could make a difference especially in the area of developing better body core strengthening as well as some balance things and other options she wants to get into as we go along. I'll be meeting with her again I believe on Friday where we will look at how I get in and out of bed and such that should be really interesting. I usually do this naked I've tried to do this with clothes on and it doesn't work very good but it should give the OT something to consider now. This person is quite sincere about these exercises and I will do them for my own benefit then hopefully that'll be enough. The OT was impressed with my arm bike as well as my Rickshaw out on the patio except for it's sort of been taken over by one of the backup chairs. And she was impressed with my backup chairs. I think she's going to be okay I think the whole OT thing is going to be really productive for me and making myself better than i was…