Sunday, February 1, 2009

Therapy frustrations

Woody is rather frustrated with his efforts when he attempts to do his new physical therapy exercises. We were shown at Vanderbilt what exercises he is to do, but we just aren't sure that he is doing them correctly. And he knows that he needs to be doing them correctly or they won't be doing him any good--and could do harm.

He is also frustrated in the fact that he has lost so much of what he had regained from going to physical therapy after his bicycle accident. He is working very hard to get the use of his hand back to what he had prior to having the external fixture removed from his arm and hand. He also had been able to straighten and bend his elbow almost all the way and he has lost some of that movement--a bit discouraging to have worked so hard to gain movement of his hand and arm to lose it again so quickly.

We just feel like he needs the expertise of a trained physical therapist to guide him in doing the exercises correctly. He went two to three times a week from October to the end of December and they taught him exactly how to do the exercises. This time we were shown twice--and shown different exercises at each of those times. We just don't want his shoulder to freeze up again! We thought that they were going to set up outside physical therapy, but we haven't heard anything and we are wondering if that will wait till after his treatments--since they are only a week and a half away. Perhaps time to email Dr. Holt again!

Woody has been in more pain today as he is trying to go from two pain pills down to one. He did take about an hour walk on this beautiful day. He didn't go to church or teach his Sunday School class this morning as he is trying to stay healthy and not pick up any bugs prior to starting his treatments on February 11th. He is resting now and looking forward to watching the Super Bowl.

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