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Did I Do My Five Things From Yesterday?
Nov. 18th, 2011 10:40 amYeah, I did. I have a very predictable life.
I woke up and stretched and did my range of motion - like I do every day. I have been stretching (with help) twice a day pretty much since I came home from having surgery and it DOES make a difference. It feels a little like I don't really have a choice in this, because I'm not even participating in it, which is kind of an uncomfortable feeling, although I suppose if I really said "NO. I DO NOT want to stretch today" that would be followed. But I don't really have any reason to say that except to be cranky, and I'm trying to be more mature than that.
BUT. I can and do perform my should range of motion exercises myself, and they are not horribly painful. It does hurt to push at the edges of my current ROM but... it also feels good to do some movement independently, so it doesn't just get my blood moving in the morning (just like someone else doing it for me would) but I feel like it engages my brain a little more, and that's a nice thing to start the day with.
But then, that's kinda just me. I do often feel like I have to put a little extra effort in getting my brain to wake up and remember it has to control the body attached to it. I think I've always been like that - I was always the kid who could not just copy what the other kids were doing in gym class, and be like, wtf, why does it work for everyone else but I'm just an uncoordinated mess? Everyone ELSE can throw/catch/kick/etc, what do they do, PRACTICE every day or something? And I do remember when I was taking yoga just really feeling the benefit of stopping, forcing myself to pay attention, and using that part of my brain that I tend to forget about.
I've barely been moving these past six months, so I can guarantee you I've been entirely ignoring that part of my brain.
And yes, it really has been six months. Can you believe it? I think I'm behind, I think I should have more ROM than I do, but my therapists say I'm right on track, so I don't know. I just have to keep telling myself that in six more months I'll be totally normal again, and that it'll just be a gradual progression from now until then - better and better and better until I'm the best I can get to.
( The other things I did yesterday )
So, I dunno. That's the best I can do at a real post for now. Sorry.
And yes, I meant to post this last night but I fell asleep.
I woke up and stretched and did my range of motion - like I do every day. I have been stretching (with help) twice a day pretty much since I came home from having surgery and it DOES make a difference. It feels a little like I don't really have a choice in this, because I'm not even participating in it, which is kind of an uncomfortable feeling, although I suppose if I really said "NO. I DO NOT want to stretch today" that would be followed. But I don't really have any reason to say that except to be cranky, and I'm trying to be more mature than that.
BUT. I can and do perform my should range of motion exercises myself, and they are not horribly painful. It does hurt to push at the edges of my current ROM but... it also feels good to do some movement independently, so it doesn't just get my blood moving in the morning (just like someone else doing it for me would) but I feel like it engages my brain a little more, and that's a nice thing to start the day with.
But then, that's kinda just me. I do often feel like I have to put a little extra effort in getting my brain to wake up and remember it has to control the body attached to it. I think I've always been like that - I was always the kid who could not just copy what the other kids were doing in gym class, and be like, wtf, why does it work for everyone else but I'm just an uncoordinated mess? Everyone ELSE can throw/catch/kick/etc, what do they do, PRACTICE every day or something? And I do remember when I was taking yoga just really feeling the benefit of stopping, forcing myself to pay attention, and using that part of my brain that I tend to forget about.
I've barely been moving these past six months, so I can guarantee you I've been entirely ignoring that part of my brain.
And yes, it really has been six months. Can you believe it? I think I'm behind, I think I should have more ROM than I do, but my therapists say I'm right on track, so I don't know. I just have to keep telling myself that in six more months I'll be totally normal again, and that it'll just be a gradual progression from now until then - better and better and better until I'm the best I can get to.
( The other things I did yesterday )
So, I dunno. That's the best I can do at a real post for now. Sorry.
And yes, I meant to post this last night but I fell asleep.
