Fiercely Independent Pam

Category: Health

  • Feeling Stronger and Making the Transfer I Need to be Making- Just Need More Therapy.

    I am getting so much stronger on transfer and just moving about. I am frustrated because I’m not getting the therapy I need. I’m not going to get stronger without therapy.

    In the meantime I continue to transfer successfully. I may even try something different today- getting my nails done. It’s all a matter if I want to sit on my bottom for all that time.

    Besides being frustrated over not getting the therapy I so desperately need, I am doing great, especially with transfers.! I have a mental health therapy session today, which I am looking forward to, as she is wonderful to talk to.

    That is about all that is going on, I will continue to work on my transfers.

  • I Did it! I Stood Twice on My Own with Little PT help and my Items are Still Not Missed!

    Lots has been happening! My sisters are on their way home, which is sad but they helped me get rid of so many items that I really don’t need.

    I returned a lot of items too, which of course helped my bank account.

    I wish the bruising would go away, no amount of items I buy will help with that.

    The most exciting thing is/was my ability to stand not once, but twice and mostly on my own strength with little help from the PT. I enjoyed not seeing all my items I threw out!

    I believe I will be able to stand on my own very soon and be able to go through my own pile of items.

  • Home, Missing A Lot of Items But SO Much More Room and a Calendar That Created Chaos!

    Well, I haven’t written blog post in a few days so I have some things to catch you up on. My sisters decided to make a visit and drove down to Myrtle Beach from New York. (Sisters are the best)They spent their vacation cleaning out my apartment and fixing the M&M Calendar that I bought and became a disaster. The calendar is super heavy and fell off the wall where my brothers placed it- causing what I called carnage(almost all the pieces had to be reglued and/or repaired.) My sister Lisa took on this challenge

    Eventually Lisa figured out that the calendar should be placed table top and not on the wall so it was placed there and set up on my small table.

    Besides rearranging what was on the table top and wall around the new calendar, everything looks amazing and I get to look at the awesome calendar from my arm chair.

    Other than cleaning and getting rid of TONS of belongings (that I truly do not need), They helped me organize my side table so I can reach everything. We returned a lot of things, as well as donated some things.

    Now the biggest thing is making sure I get the therapy I need (PT/OT to practice standing. Its still a scary thing, but I can’t do thing if I can’t stand on demand.