I Started PT Again, First time in a long while
I started PT on the 19th for nine sessions, I go twice a week then get evaluated for success or failure to see if I need more. Medicare is paying so I don't know if any more will get their approval soon. I would like to get OT after this if they approve it.
My concern this time around is how therapy has cut down on the time of each session. I get 40 minutes only. I remember times before I got one hour each session. Maybe this 40 minute thing is new by insurance rules or limitations. Seems like by the time I start, she is saying, "Your time is up." See you next week!
I wonder if this is standard now or is it Medicare limits??? I hope to walk a bit better when I'm done. Right now I can't walk very far at all and certainly not without a cane. I'd like to stand up straight, shoulders back, not slumped over like I am now. Being able to pick my feet up, bend both knees and walk straight is my goal.
That's hard to do with no brain connection to my left side, I have to see and think about it. She doesn't want me to look down, I'm so used to that until it is hard to stop doing that. Maybe I'll succeed when I'm finished! My weak leg seems to be so stiff all the time. I take Gabapentin and tramadol again since a long time ago when I had pain management training.
Too much of that stuff constipates my system. I'm going on 7 years now, I do try to walk better and farther but it takes me a while to walk the length of two driveways on my street sidewalk and they are fairly close together.
My friend Lenny got me wanting to kick it up a notch and walk farther, it's hard for me. At Walmart super centers, you know how big they are, I get a shopping cart in the garden center and walk all the way to the dairy section on the grocery side and back to garden center. That takes me 25 minutes.
I got my scooter for serious shopping if needed, but if the parking area is not too far from the building, I always try to walk. It's hard for me to do.
Well, I hope everyone else is kicking it up a notch and doing great in their recovery process.
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