Tag: walking

A little surprise for us all

So, after showing my husband that I could take 4 steps forward and back without my AFO brace, I felt both encouraged and curious as to how many steps I was able to take, and the only way to answer that question was to take me out of the condo to the railing in the hallway and try it. The answer is more than 4 steps. How many more?  You’ll have to watch the video below to find out.

If you read yesterday’s post, you know that my mid-term goal was to make it to the end of the railing. I fully expected to have to send the cameraman to bring the wheelchair to me by that point if I could get that far. Imagine my surprise at feeling strong enough to try to make it back to the wheelchair and then completing the trip back. I’m absolutely thrilled to know that I was strong enough to do my initial goal and then even MORE.  Now I’m resting because my left leg and butt cheek are quite tired, and I was pretty winded at the finish . I’ve told the hubby that we’re going to do this walk every day now until the leg is strong enough to cross the hallway and come back the other side. That’s the next goal, and it should take more time than this one did for sure.

Added to my resume yesterday

On the heels of my recently found balance, I was feeling fairly confident, so yesterday morning, I thought I’d try something out while my husband was in the shower. So I bravely, if nervously, went to the little hallway that connects the living room to the main bathroom and parked the wheelchair . Then, using the handrail that hubby put in, I pulled myself up and tried to walk a few steps without my AFO. Guess what?! I actually walked 4 steps forward and 4 steps back to the wheelchair … twice!  Granted, it wasn’t graceful, but I didn’t feel like I was losing my balance, and it wasn’t wobbly.  Then, when my mom came over, I did it again to show her! She was just as happy as I was. I haven’t told or shown the hubby yet, but I am excited to do so after he reads this post.

You are tied for second to hear the news. There will be video posted tomorrow, hopefully.

I’m so happy, I could jump for joy, but there’s no way I’m risking injury before hubby sees this!!

It’s mostly gone…

But not quite. My temperature is still spiking from time to time ,causing sweating that menopausal women would recognize as night sweats. It’s the kind of sweating that ,in the morning, you look at the bed and see you’ve sweated your silhouette onto the sheets, or if it’s daytime, you’re clothes are stuck to you. That’s bad enough, but then throw in half an hour of frozen to the core . But those are my only symptoms left, and they finally feel like they’re waning.

So today, I had a bath followed by a walk, with the leg brace around the hallway outside the condo using the handrails hubby put up. I just went once around, but…

Confession time. It was my first walk in about a year. I’ve been lazy and mildly depressed so I’ve neglected my exercise. Until I discovered and purchased my Zeen, I thought that if I could transfer, that’s all I needed . Then I saw the videos for the Zeen and thought it looked like something I could do.

I still think that I can use the Zeen. I just have to strengthen my left leg somewhat and my core a little. So it’s once around the railing every day until I’m able to Zeen.