Sounds like you are making great progress. However, I don't know that it's a good idea at all to push yourself beyond what the physical therapist recommends. I can understand you're very highly motivated to work very hard. But, I have a deep sense that I would do exactly with a therapist recommends because you can injure yourself. He will get to the point where you can walk to the assholes joint
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> We did an evaluation today in preparation for my Neurosurgery appointment today and I was able to walk 1,385 feet in six minutes with a gait velocity 9 seconds. No walker.
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> Last time I did 900 feet with a gait velocity of 11. Normal gait velocity is 7. So I'm in the 15-20% range now. Huge improvement.
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> We are doing the Berg Balance Test again on Monday and then she will fax the results to Miami which they requested so everything is falling into place.
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> Now we are working on my arms which are still quite weak and upper body strength and core since my legs are doing extremely well.
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> My physical therapist told me to take it easy this weekend cause my legs were shaking when I was doing my exercises but I pushed myself really hard this week. Also had considerable pain yesterday and several myoclonic seizures and she did some trigger point therapy and identified quite a few spots that were pretty severely knotted up.
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> I get that from emotional exhaustion as well so I attribute that to the earring episode yesterday where grandma auntie and I spent 45 minutes trying to get a pair of earrings in my ears.
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> I bet my healthcare aide will be able to do it. She'll be coming today at 12 so we'll see if she has better luck.
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> I set a personal goal for November and although I didn't meet that goal (to walk to Mar-a-Lago for protests) I am very pleased with the progress I've made.
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> I am having a birthday lunch tomorrow with a friend and we are going to a Jimmy Buffet Benefit concert at the Amphitheater for Andrew Gillum for Governor and Bill Nelson for Senate since Florida is a key swing state.
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> So that's the DailyDDoSe for November 2, 2018.
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