Hola! How are you? Hope things are going well.
Well, I start a whole new adventure today, I have some good news, and I have a whole new struggle I'm dealing with. Where to start? How about the beginning? The new adventure - outpatient at Harborview. I start with PT today, start OT tomorrow, and start speech in a little while. Hope it's good! At least I should get new exercises so I'm excited about that. And I hope to get clearance soon to donate my walker to the nursing home I was in. Won't miss that! At all!
The good news - I've been able to reconnect with a few choice people from my past. And it is awesome!!! I even get to have lunch with the one I'm most excited about on Friday. What a treat! Guess this accident wasn't all bad after all. Being able to use it as a catalyst to re-hook up kinda makes it worth it. At least a tiny bit.
Let's see, the new struggle - I kind of feel trapped in recovery. It's not that I don't think I'm getting better, I can see lots of little improvements, but I just don't feel like I'll ever be done. Guess it all gets back to my lack of patience. I feel like I'll be getting better forever. And yeah, yeah, I know this is a whole lifelong journey but that just doesn't help make it any more palatable. Speaking of improvements, that was just one - my vocabulary has expanded enough to say palatable. Gotta take the little things I can get. I just wonder "will my left hand cramp up in the morning forever or will that go away?" You know, or maybe you don't, that kind of stuff. Definitely fodder for some questions at my TBI follow-up appointment next week. Look at that - fodder. Not bad! Little successes all the time.
Well, that's about all I've got.
Ta ta for now,
Ang
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