{"id":394,"date":"2010-03-03T23:08:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T06:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/hultquist\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-03-03T23:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T06:08:23","slug":"wednesday-start-slowly-work-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"WEDNESDAY — start slowly, work hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had light rain all last night but lovely weather today, becoming sunny with billowing puffy white clouds around the blue sky.\u00a0 The drippy and gray early sky made for a great morning to sleep in so I did.\u00a0 Then I had a late breakfast, followed by pills, and then I worked on the laptop awhile still catching up on emails on a couple of accounts.\u00a0 I still need to check all those messages saved by John in my absence.\u00a0 Also, they keep coming in to nancyh@ellensburg.com<\/a> — still the best contact for us.<\/p>\n

We skipped lunch during the noon hour and headed to out-patient physical therapy for an hour.\u00a0 Did well, happily.\u00a0 I completed several walks around without a walker and then climbed high-riser stairs.\u00a0 While resting from that, my therapist set up an obstacle course.\u00a0 It had things to step over, then I had to walk on a foam cushion (springy) the size of a single bed, step up on a high stand, and then over another circular piece and finishing via a serpentine route through a set of cones.<\/p>\n

After that I rested again to stabilize my heart beat, and then I went to a recumbent bike-like machine that includes both arm and leg (stepper) functions.\u00a0 Legs first for 5 minutes and then another 5 with using my arms.\u00a0 Finally, after resting from that, I did one more balance with my eyes closed<\/em> and the therapist pushing my body in different directions and I had to regain (sustain) my balance.\u00a0 I did well on that.\u00a0 Then he had me raise one foot and stand only on one.\u00a0 That is a bit harder, but I was doing better on the hard foam pad than I had last Friday on the hard floor.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m making improvement.\u00a0 [Unlike some others there with whom improvement is barely noticable and, sadly, seems destined to continue as such.\u00a0 JFH]<\/p>\n

We came on home for a late lunch and spent the rest of the afternoon catching up with a backlog of things, especially online.\u00a0 John was sorting through a stack of papers and found letters to each of us from Medicare that had arrived a few days before Thanksgiving.\u00a0 They had a form they wanted filled out and returned within 10 days.\u00a0 Oops! I called and worked through a phone-tree to a real person.\u00a0 Then we answered the questions.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been getting an afternoon nap but it didn\u2019t happen today with the late morning start and the trip to physical therapy.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have lights out early tonight.<\/p>\n

Nancy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had light rain all last night but lovely weather today, becoming sunny with billowing puffy white clouds around the blue sky.\u00a0 The drippy and gray early sky made for a great morning to sleep in so I did.\u00a0 Then I had a late breakfast, followed by pills, and then I worked on the laptop … Continue reading “WEDNESDAY — start slowly, work hard”<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-6m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}