On Thursday we wheelchaired across the parking lot between the facility where Nancy is and another with assisted-living characteristics.\u00a0 Nancy and other \u201cfiddlers and friends\u201d played music for a few folks in the dinning room.<\/p>\n
Friday A.M. they have also taken the wheelchair away.\u00a0 She is able to get out of bed and use the walker.\u00a0 When it is not within reach she still is supposed to have someone move it into position and lock the wheels.\u00a0 She can take herself to the potty, now fitted with a raised platform with arm rests.\u00a0 This is making everyone\u2019s day more pleasant.<\/p>\n
If she is in a chair with a low seat she may still need a little tug to get vertical but less so each day.<\/p>\n
Today I took my car to the back of the building.\u00a0 Nancy trundled outside using the 4-wheeled walker and the physical therapist explained a safe way for her to approach, back up to, and seat herself in the passenger seat.\u00a0 She did this more easily than we expected \u2013 even after a rather strenuous workout during the morning (inside) exercises.<\/p>\n
The immediate need for the correct manner of getting in and out of the car is so we can go to another music session on Saturday.\u00a0 The place is not far away but enough so that she is not ready to go that far with just the walker and I don\u2019t want to push a wheelchair that far.\u00a0 I think this little trip is on the level of Ivory Soap\u00ae-sure* but check back.<\/p>\n
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* 99.44 <\/em>% :\u00a0 See 3rd<\/sup> paragraph in History<\/em>, here: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivory_(soap)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday we wheelchaired across the parking lot between the facility where Nancy is and another with assisted-living characteristics.\u00a0 Nancy and other \u201cfiddlers and friends\u201d played music for a few folks in the dinning room. Friday A.M. they have also taken the wheelchair away.\u00a0 She is able to get out of bed and use the … Continue reading “FRIDAY — PT outside”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-5P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}