Not bad.
My leg is doing all right. Extension is a real problem. I can extend it to being straight, but--here, try this. Get down on the floor, or on the bed, wherever it's flat and your legs are out in front of you. Now tighten up your quad. See how your lower leg and foot raise up? Put your hand under your knee. Tighten up your quad, and see how it pushes down on the hand? Well, when I tighten the quad, there's no pushing, no raising. It's just tightening. Now, I still have swelling, so that could be it. After the accident, it took a while. But eh.
Walking around campus wasn't too bad. I got a blister on my right foot though lol, so I was walking really weird by the end of the day. Going downhill, even slightly, I still have to lead with my toe and not straighten. But that was the same with after the accident too.
I'm exercising. But not as much as I should :/ I do all of them, but just not as many I guess. We'll see what Greg says, I see him tomorrow at 11am. I think my flexion has improved. But I'm really worried about my extension.
I'm icing, but DEFINITELY not much. Maybe twice a day. Once usually. I need to work on that too. I'm just so bad and keeping up with things. But I've got a schedule set down. Once I get back from school, I have two hours to play with the dog and do exercises and have tea time (at 4pm, yes, awesome, I know). Then 5-7 is homework, icing, Arabic review. 7-9 is dinner, more homework, more exercises. 9-10 is relaxation before bed--be that meditating, doing nothing, blogging, taking a bath. So HOPEFULLY I'll keep to it. I also can exercise a little in the morning while in the shower and doing my hair.
UGH.
Okay. Oh, and I'm STOKED about Arabic. Seriously. It'll be hard, really hard, but I'm so excited. And realllly excited about my Digital Audio Production course. Yes!
Cheers!
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Sounds like a good schedule, and once that has an excellent chance of becoming a habit -- which you will need since PT is MONTHS not weeks, and apparent lack of progress can be so discouraging. If it is a habit, you have a better chance of perservering!
Sorry about the blister! Until it heals, use moleskin around it to protect it! Or a bandaid. Hey! I remember you got blisters this time last year too, from your birks, you thought, and all the walking. So you switched to sneakers.
Did you ever find your sneakers after the move? When we left you, all you had found were your flip-flops and either your right or left birk! (Oh, and dress shoes, but they don't count!)
Sorry about the extension difficulties! But, as you said, even after the accident that took awhile to come back. What did Greg say about it yesterday?
Hooray for exercising and icing! Keep it up! Remember how excited you were with your progress after the accident and be inspired to do it again!
Love, Mom
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