The Adventure continues

Tomorrow my physical therapist is coming around 10:00 a.m. to see how I handle my ADLs- - activities of daily living. This is a little bit weird because my home health person will also be there who gives me my shower and my toileting stuff on Fridays. I think she'll be just about done when the therapist gets there. I'm not sure how this is going to go over shouldn't be bad though and I really think it might even be beneficial and respect that maybe their therapist will teach my home health person if you of the PT moves. I don't know if Melissa would be up for that it's probably would she's been absorbing so much other stuff. Then I'm left with the issue of should I be paying her something on the side for doing so much more than what she's supposed to be doing? There really is sort of a weird thing. I'm not sure how much this event is going to be similar to what I did last week with the OT Aid or assistant when she had me on the bed and off the bed transferring and seeing how I did it. I'm thinking rather than being really challenged because of the clothes I'm wearing that maybe I will have one of the new Chucks or plastic sheet savers on the bed which would make me slide over a lot better and where it may not be totally how I do my moves it was certainly be a lot easier I think sliding back and forth as opposed to trying to lift myself over the clothing I'm wearing as well as the sheets on the bed. I'm still feeling pretty jazzed about the whole physical therapy thing. I've also been doing my exercises that the OT person left hopefully this will all have some positive impact. Again my largest worry is that in the name of good physical therapy and positioning a position me totally out of being independent or as independent as I seem to be.

I chose not to wear shoes today not only because of the temperature which you're supposed to be in the 80s but to see how quickly I was able to get dressed. Not putting on the shoes certainly did cut some time off of the dressing aspect. I really believe that if I really wanted to wear shoes after I got dressed I could do the shoe trick fairly easily. However, deep down I do like being the rebel and going days without shoes. Back to the physical therapy thing I'm really hoping that by maybe stretching my legs and such that I'll be able to do things like putting my shoes on like I used to. It was so much easier at first and then again true, I was in my manual chair and things were a lot easier at that point. I really am quite surprised I was able to make the jump from the manual chair to the power chair as far as dressing and stuff goes as easily as I did. I really am an adapter.