Saturday, September 20, 2008
Better Little by Little
Movement for 9/19/08:
- She not only walked to the bathroom after awakening, this morning, but to the dinette, as well. As well, she had a bowel movement and standing for the extension this adds to groin cleaning did not appear to involve any more effort than usual. However, she decided to turn for front groin cleaning, which we haven't been doing, winced and found it necessary to sit back down on the toilet before standing up, again, and continuing. She was a little iffy going into the dinette. I kept the wheelchair close and pulled it up to her once, about halfway through the kitchen, but she refused it, straightened on her own without a reminder, and continued, slowly but surely. It was obvious that this took effort and courage.
- Wheeled, again, until she awoke from her nap. She insisted on walking into the bathroom. After dinner I suggested that we start doing some "very simple and easy" therapy on her left arm: Simply trying, four times, to lift it in front of her and out to the side. She is having much difficulty and can't raise her arm very far in any direction, but she tried. She gets extra points for effort and courage. Overall, though, her pain is less. She even mentioned that transferring is no longer painful. The caused her to decide to rise from her rocker on her own for transfer to the wheelchair before bed. It was hard and I'm sure there was pain involved, but she did it. At one point I suggested she sit back down for a minute, when she was having trouble getting her balance before straightening up. She refused and worked it out on her own. She was, however, so tired by the time we made it to the bathroom that she opted for the wheelchair into her bedroom.
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