JimK's Journal

6:55 PM – M.S.T.

I was very pleased with the way my physical therapy appointment went today.  The building was easy to get into with automatic door openers on the ground floor.  My physical therapist seemed to be very optimistic in what she thought could be accomplished in my case.

She spent about two hours with me today.  That included doing a lot of intake on my family history, as well as doing an evaluation on my overall physical condition.  She decided that it would be best if I saw her two days a week, for a period of one hour each, for six weeks.  After she has worked with me for a while, she said that she would give me some "assignments" to try and do at home.  These will consist of some physical therapy that can be done in my home.

The only problem is that I will be unable to attend the sessions of my Relapse Prevention Group during the next week or two because of a timing conflict.  I gave that some thought, and then concluded that my physical health deserved some priority over my group sessions -- at least for the time being.

Although I do not have much control over the movement of my own legs, the physical therapist will be moving them for me as she stretches and moves my legs into different positions.  It is her hope that when she is done working with me at the end of six weeks, that my doctor would give an order for my home health care agency to have their CNAs continue working with me on some physical therapy.  If, for some reason, there is a further need for me to have more physical therapy at the clinic, she said that she, my doctor, and the orthopedic surgeon would try to arrange with Medicare and Medicaid to enable that to happen.