Countdown to brace coming the heck off: 56 days
Countdown to Rebecca arriving in Chi-town: 4 days
Countdown to me leaving RIC: 19 days
That last one is new. They told me this morning that my… well it went like this:
Dr. Anschell: Hey Chip so everything’s going well? Blah blah blah…
Chip: Yep all good, thanks. Slept great. I’m a little nervous about leaving here, though.
Doc: Well your discharge date is May 20, right?
Chip: Huh?!!? I hadn’t heard that. Okay. Wow.
Doc: Oh… well Donna said you were okay with that date I thought.
Chip: Well I said ideally the end of May so I could move into an apartment June 1.
Doc: Well yeah she thought that May 20 counted as the end of May.
Chip: Hmm.. well… okay, I’ll make it work. It’s fine. Haha…
Surprise for me!!! So yeah I’m apartment hunting now. Or rather my parents are and I’m trying to when I have time.
9:15am - Woke up. Great night’s sleep and didn’t feel bad in the morning for the first time since I can remember.
10am - OT with Zoe. We did balancing on the mat.
11am - Lokomat with Sara. It keeps going better and better. By that I mean more comfortable. Usually I use my abs to throw my hips forward and cheat at walking. Today it seems like I was able to pull from a little lower. I felt my right hip flexor and it seemed like just a little flexing going on there. I tried my other one and it was similar. I didn’t know if I was imagining it so I got my mom to feel, and of course she got really excited. Hard to say for sure - but apparently in my charts they already had written that I had possible hip flexor return.
1pm - Group exercise. Good times.
2pm - Pool therapy with Martha. Towards the end she had me doing an ab drill to pull my knees to my chest. I told her about the hip flexor thing and she felt it and said something was there. She walked away to help another patient but suggested I try doing one leg at a time for the ab drill and incorporate my hip flexors if possible. My left leg went forward just a tiny bit. My right leg, however, went a good foot or so farther than my left leg when I tried on that side. Keep in mind this was underwater. I showed my dad and he naturally got really excited. I tried to remind him that what you can do in a pool is 1000x easier than on land. We shall see how this all transpires, but it’s at least good news.
7pm - Small group. My church small group guys agreed to have our weekly meeting in the chapel of the RIC. We went through a couple chapters of 2nd Timothy. It was great to see them.
Several people seem to be leaving soon or have just left. Prayers for them so they transition to their own homes nicely. Often times that’s when depression sets in. Chip (not me), Mark, John, Stan, Liz… I think that’s it. Please pray for them. And as my dad says, pray for reactivation and regeneration, for all of the patients in this building, really. I’ll also throw in to pray for the psychological side of things for everyone here, including me. It is by far harder than the physical aspect.
G’night
Chip
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