Lap Update – I did two laps around the house with the walker yesterday.  It was really challenging for some reason.  My back muscles are so tight and very uncomfortable- Ugh! Gotta do some stretching to see if that helps today.

It’s early in the day still and I just stopped to write before I get ready to go to physical therapy……

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Physical therapy was good today.  I was pleased with my effort today.  Darlene “pushed me around” today.  🙂  This was an exercise to further strengthen my core muscles.  I sat on the big balance ball (a chair on either side of the ball for safety) while she sat behind me and provided resistance to the direction that I was to push against.   In the next exercise, I had to hold a dowel (an exercise stick) out in front of me at arms length while she pushed me in any given direction.  I had to maintain my balance or recover my balance if I became unsteady.  Although this sound fairly simple, it was very taxing.  I actually broke out into a slight sweat from it.  Anyway, I just wanted to say that I am very proud of being able to do this exercise because back in February of this year I was not able to sit on the ball unassisted, no less hold onto something and maintain my balance.  I would have been on the floor.

On the way home on the Sunline Bus, I decided to continue this exercise by not holding on to the railing in the bus but keep my balance and not get thrown from the seat .  The only thing that kept me planted was my core strength and the seatbelt. HaHa!