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[Queen of Disks]

Originally Posted by Stormdancer

Who is in charge of interacting with the Drs on dad's behalf? Someone needs to step up and get crap together. Is that your mom? Ya need a family spokesperson....and then we send the juice to them.

(((QoD))) I"m so sorry.

Mom is the spokesperson for Dad. We have been trying to keep it all together. Docs forget we have been dealing with it longer then they have. I don't know what is going to happen now.


Goodnight everyone, more work tomorrow.

[Stormdancer]

Originally Posted by Queen of Disks

Goodnight everyone, more work tomorrow.

It just sounds SO chaotic....would drive me nuts....which means the B*tch comes out....

Hang in there(((((((((((((( QoD ))))))))))))))

[Lutestring]

((((((((((((((((((((((((QoD))))))))) ))))))))))))))))

i hope they work out what they are doing, and get your dad well again soon. i had a lot of battles with doctors when my mother was ill, so i know how difficult it can be sometimes.

[EllieP]

Good morning all.

Really sorry to hear the docs haven't got their act together, QoD - that is so annoying and so potentially life-threatening. Makes you wonder why they're docs at all.

Blue - your energy makes me feel slothful

Stormy - just wanted to say I appreciate the fact that you're always here 'being there' for others. You're amazing!

I heard from Est last night and she's having a brilliant time on her craft-making course. As I'm sure she'll report back eventually. Made me wish I was there, but I was pastel-ing instead. So it was okay.

My muscles are worse today - I always expect it the second day after a long hilly walk, but not the first day. Yesterday was bizarre. Didn't know I even *had* those muscles. Today's are the normal ones. But I'll be sat at my desk. I only have to be able to hobble to the kitchen for a coffee every hour

[PathWalker]

Sending love all round

[Wendywu]

Morning guys

QoD - my thoughts are with your Dad and family

Today I paint walls. I have to make sure that all my stretching and reaching is to my left; that's gonna take some organising. But I have to stretch my upper back's right hand muscles and the physio says that means stretch to the left. (Is anyone else irresistibly reminded of Bob Hope in The Paleface?)

It's going to be a different way of decorating, that's for sure

[EllieP]

I thought for a moment the muscles of your right hand were in your back.

Just take care!

I walked to the village shop from the outskirts instead of parking outside it, becauseI thought I might never walk again if I didn't try!

[Wendywu]

My hand is OK for light gripping and gross motor movements. It's absolutely not OK for repeated fine motor movement. So as far as I can tell if I hold a paint pad and use large expansive gestures with it on the walls I should be fine!

Good for you - stretching 'em out will help those aching muscles a lot!

The physio said that if it's muscles (like my back) then stretch it. If it's tendons (the hand) don't stretch and limit use until pain subsides.

[BlueDragonfly]

Good Morning! I survived yesterday! I worked by myself till almost 1 pm and got alot done. After that, when bro and gang were here, not so much.

It'll be quieter this morning, so I can go back to working the way I want to. Hopefully he'll have calmed down some and we can talk, get a bit more organized. I have a short list of things he'll need to deal with today and a phone call he needs to make tomorrow.

PW, sending love right back atcha!

Wu, I hope you can get through the painting relatively pain free. When you say stretching and reaching to your left, do you mean with your right side(arm and body)? Is that to keep your motions reasonably neutral....more in front of your body than too far out away from it to the right?

[Wendywu]

My left side actually needs to stretch well over to the right. One of the exercises is stand or sit straight. Stretch both arms in front of me and grasp my right hand with my left hand. Then use the left hand to actually pull the right hand over to the left side, keeping both arms straight so that the whole right upper back feels a good stretch. Hold it for 15 seconds and release. Do it five times. Do five sets a day.

I have six different rhomboid exercises to do, with each full set of the six being done either five, ten or fifteen times. And repeat the whole thing five times a day. I have a sheet with all of them illustrated so that I don't go wrong . These are part I of set I of the exercises she's going to give me over time.

Also I need to stay conscious of posture all the time. No sitting/standing with my head forward. If you stand against a wall, the back of the head, top of the back, bottom and backs of calves should touch the wall. And I have to keep my shoulders down, forced down to counteract my natural tendency to hunch slightly.