PostOp Day 20 Update 130813: Physical Therapy Session Two this morning.
Uff da. It went well. She unlocked the brace out of ninety degrees. Basically the half hour session was the therapist massaging and stretching out my elbow and arm, especially getting the triceps to release. She said that the elbow is one of the joints that is more prone to want to give up and just stay stiff and locked in, so aggressive gentle therapy is needed. I told her, "Bring it on!"
I guess the metal will be permanent as Sherri was describing that part of therapy is to get the new bone growth that will knit around the metal plates and pins to be part of the flexibility process.
I have therapy twice next week, with one doc visit as well. In the meantime, I am to use gravity to help work on extending my arm more and more, gently. Also, I am to remove the brace and compression socks and bathe the arm and scar tissue. I am still hoping to get back to work next week for four-shifts, but as whooped exhausted after I was with just this minor session, not sure yet if I will make it on Tue and Thu when I have therapy in the morn.
I will find out from my doc visit next Tuesday morning what exact limits I am supposed to obey. Hopefully driving will no longer be one of them! And, even though exhaustion follows each of my mini-adventures during this recovery, I just nap it off and continue forward, yep.
Inspiration and Blessing 130813: The Lord always keeps his promises; he is gracious in all he does. The Lord helps the fallen and lifts those bent beneath their loads. The eyes of all look to you in hope; you give them their food as they need it. When you open your hand, you satisfy the hunger and thirst of every living thing. — Psalm 145:13-16
Request List 130813:
Even though the brace is unlocked, I am still unable to clip my fingernails. Help?
I have neglected keeping tabs on whose food containers are whose. Feel free to drop by and reclaim each of yours.
In addition to helping scrub the back and right arm (which I have done minimally), now I really need help in bathing by putting back on the compression sock on my left arm after showering. That is not a one-armed task. Help? By the by, I have given up on shaving my head anymore anyways, until needed for Living Masterpieces in September.
Recent Facebook Musings --
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Thank you, Nancy Hruby for driving me to the office and making the bank deposit, and for the long leisurely drive amidst the northern subdivisions of the river bottoms. So great to get outside beyond these four walls! And it was a good sign that the locks had not been changed at work, and that there was a paycheck waiting (-;
Saturday at 1:41pm
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Me, I have always loved marigolds — at Crestview Manor Apartments.
Saturday at 5:40pm
Marigolds
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A most engaging pizza supper and conversation with Joan Graven Backes here on the patio this evening. — at Crestview Manor Apartments.
Saturday at 8:40pm
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Saturday
Facebook: The instrument to help you know upon whom you can readily rely, and from whom you can know the truth is bent.
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Saturday
Dear Local Thespian Friends on Facebook:
Please accept my apologies for not attending any of your theatrical productions since July 24th.
I failed most miserably in not blatantly directly asking for a ride. I failed in jumping to the conclusions in assuming that people knew I could not drive, that people know of my severe passion to support local theatre, and assumed that people actually read my posts here on Facebook of how I need human contact and freedom from this apartment. So therefore I made the failed assumption someone would be willing to step up without me having to make a direct request.
My bad. I have learned too late. I promise to purpose to not fail you the next time I slip on a rock.
Forever your supporter,
Kevin R. Tengesdal — at Crestview Manor Apartments.
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Sunday
Late Night Ramble 130811: A'yup, so what. I have a woe is me moment. Thankfully I have close enough of friends who know full well that for every one of those mucky moments, I have a dozen "holly carp, that was some kind of amazing" moments as well. Sometimes life isn't fair, but that is not going to prevent me from sliding into homeplate at the end of this journey in a blaze of ruckus and glory, giggling, "Now THAT was fun, thank you Jesus!"
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Oh. My. Goodness. Can we talk sweet bliss? Sweet Slumber? Can we? Slept in my bed last night. Sprawled out all lazy and horizontal, all propped by pillows, and barricaded in by pillows. But the pure bliss of sleeping in my own bed after three weeks of comfy motel beds, an awkward hospital bed, a friend's electric lift recliner, and a napper couch -- oh my goodness. I hope one thing you have learned in following me through this journey -- it is the simple things. Delightful. Sheer.
Sunday at 9:31am
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Sunday
Sunday morning, sunshine, marigolds, patio, coffee, shattered elbow, the simple life... — at Crestview Manor Apartments.
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Thank you Dana Thome for sharing sun, conversation, coffee and a hug this forenoon. — at Crestview Manor Apartments.
Sunday at 1:25pm in Bismarck
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Sunday
Ok, ok, ok, ok. Enough already. I am done oversaturated on the gay and/or straight romance, love triumphs movies during this homestay. Time for some real movies. Love loses movies. Life sucks and we win movies. Life kicks buttocks movies. Purge me of romance. Start naming the movies for me to fill my Netflix queue. And ACTION! — at Crestview Manor Apartments.
(And the suggestions and encouragements flooded in!)
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Sunday near Bismarck via mobile
Watching God sweep meteors across the heavens — with Jackee Rohrich, and with her little sister and their Mom who are visiting from California.
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Monday via mobile
Early in the Morn, Late to the Realization Observation Ramble 130812: These two journies this year have shown me that I give too much expectation for Facebook friendship validation, when the actual live experience of life lived has truly shown in reality who is authentically there in the real moment. YES, Facebook does have purposes, but for relying upon it for mere cyber validation, especially from those within close geographical proximity, that's just witless. Dedicated to my Life Instigators and Life Lingerers, I really cherish you.
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Thank you Robert Hanna for taking me out of the apartment and wheelchairing me through Dakota Zoo this afternoon, such a great afternoon. Now to regather energies to take a shower, head to bed, in anticipation of Physical Therapy in the morn, with Myra Johnson as my driver. — at Dakota Zoo.
Monday via mobile
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