Crazy long day. I’m beat. I feel like I say that every night.
7:30am - Get woken up so they can take my blood for testing. What a wonderful way to wake up!
9-10am - OT session with Ann Marie. I was feeling rough but this was fun. I practiced transferring to the mat, then pulling my feet up, then pulling into the groin stretch position (getting myself there this time). Once I was there she set up little wooden blocks around the common area. She then gave me a bunch of bags (kind of like in the game bags/cornhole) for me to throw at them from my groin stretch position and try to knock them all down. It was fairly easy so then she placed them pretty far away. It took me forever and I continued well after she suggested we move on to something else. I hit a computer a few times, got one bag stuck up on a ceiling lamp, and hit a male nurse. But I got them all down.
10-11am - Recreational therapy with Mike. Tony joined, as well. We practiced putting and I got into the altered golf cart that basically straps me in so I can play golf from a swivel seat kind of setup. Hard to explain. It was pretty fun. Especially driving the cart around as I hadn’t driven anything since the accident. I also met the golf instructor who also coaches the sled hockey team sponsored by the Blackhawks. I might have to try that. And we might go play an actual round of golf in a couple weeks. Definitely encouraging to try and reassimilate to life.
11am-noon - Lokomat. Feeling better and better. My mom does this strange-looking workout next to me where she walks in place and dances to whatever we are playing on Pandora. Pretty hilarious. I wish I had a video.
1-2pm - LIFE Center education. It’s basically a resource center for everything you can think of for disabilities. Once again with Tony. They seem to be pairing us up.
2-3pm - PT with Jon (I think that’s his name). We did a lot and still had 10 minutes to spare. Climbing to a mat from the floor, doing wheelies and moving forward for 60 feet at a time, going outside and practicing going up and down a residential ramp. That last bit was near impossible since my brace keeps me from leaning forward. Any uphill movement and I’m flipping backwards. Still fun, though.
3pm - X-rays. Painful but hopefully we’ll find out if things are healing or if the gear inside of me has any screws loose or something.
3:30pm - Get the heck in bed and rest, do some emails, etc.
5-6:15pm - Psych session with Dr. Sweet. More progress mentally. She is super smart.
6:15pm - Head out with parents to Elephant and Castle for dinner, drinks, and the Blackhawks playoff watch. Erik joined. I only made it til overtime started and then I had to head back, only to discover that the game was not on my room’s tv. They won, though, so that’s good.
See my next post for a video that may or may not amuse you.
Praise God. Incidental lesson (not sure what brought it on.. maybe a card): I have often wondered if God was trying to humble me through the accident. Or if He was trying to teach me a lesson - like I was having too much pride or something. While it is definitely possible that He could be using it to mold me or something like that, I constantly need to remind myself that the God we believe in as Christians does not punish.
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. - Romans 8:1
Gnight!
Chip
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