Shoulder Stuff

Most of my time these days seems to be spent going to physical therapy three times a week and doing homework of exercises for my shoulder 3-4 times each day. It is surprising to me that the sideways "walking up the wall" with my fingers is the hardest for my arm/shoulder right now.

I am lucky that I ended up with the physical therapist I did because she explains very thoroughly about my body, showing me the different views/layers of muscles around my right arm and shoulder. This gives me understanding of what happened in my injury, but also what is happening in my recovery. It makes me want to work on it, too.

It is interesting to observe how I automatically judge that I should be doing better in the different positions--until I realize that it has only been five days since I got out of the sling. Considering that, I am making progress. A minor but noticeable effect is that the day my sling got off, it hurt to try to pull the sleeve of my sweater down using my right hand behind my back. Now that does not seem difficult, even though I cannot lift the right arm up past my waist in the back. Still, that's better than it was.

As the doctor told me, "slow and steady." That's a description for any type of discipline, including prayer.