PT and me

 I'm not sure if I've rattled on in the past about never being able to get to my phone before the phone stops ringing. In some situations I've just given up on the whole concept and rely on calling the number back- - if it's a number that I recognize- - to see if anybody around their called me. This morning I was pleasantly surprised when I returned the phone call that it was a call for me from a guy named Greg who was the physical therapist asking if he could set up an appointment with me for today. Finally some physical therapy I've been really waiting years for this. We decided that I could meet with him around 3:40 in the afternoon what's really cuts my afternoon and half and I spend the whole day waiting but it was worth it to me. Hadn't really planned on that much anyway so I was willing to hang around to meet with this guy.

Greg was kind of late but he did show up. Like I said I didn't mind just to be seen by a physical therapist was excited to me and I would make any kind of time adjustment that was needed. I really found physical therapy in the whole medical Delivery Systems change over the last 20 or 30 years pretty interesting. I'm really fascinated with this whole concept of coming out to the individuals living environment to provide services as opposed to going into a clinical setting and waiting for your therapist to become available. Since this was our first meeting it was kind of exploratory as far as getting to know each other and finding some commonalities. Fortunately for us we're fairly well matched and I think we will do pretty well together. I was a little worried I didn't know how or what he was going to do as far as physical therapy actually went but he kind of just Dove straight into the whole situation. We talked to some extent about how poorly I looked in the chair and how twisted my body has become over the years and what extent we could hope that therapy might change what might be happening to my body. One of the things I was hoping we could examine would be making it easier for me to do ADLs particularly dressing myself in the morning. That would be a giant plus. We talked about how he thought a lot of the problems I was having with dressing and such might be related to the poor condition of my chair. We talked about trying to process more options for my seating situation IE getting a new chair. I was pleased to find out that he felt the same way about the wheelchair shop that is organization ran as I did. It's just very difficult to get services they're trying to get past the front desk when you call in for service needs. I was also excited when he started actually putting on his rubber gloves and started actually providing some physical therapy for my legs. I lowered my power chair back until almost a prone position and he was actually maneuvering my legs up and down like a real physical therapist! He did that a number of times and did some other exploratory type things. We had a fairly decent session coming back to the apartment and showing him some of my things that I do on a regular basis. He'll be coming again next week or no Friday when I'll do the whole tumble in and Tumble out of the bed trick. Maybe Melissa will be here and they can maybe do some learning as far as him teaching her some physical therapy tricks that would be cool