Shopping

It was another day of progress on several fronts today. This morning in therapy I did a whole hour of stretching independently, including transferring on the mat, sitting up and laying down a few times, rolling over on my stomach, and transferring back into the chair. The daily change in my elbow keeps catching me out, and sometimes I have more strength than I think, leaning too far over center on a transfer. Other times I'm worn out enough that I have less strength than I think. It's all coming along good though.

This afternoon Debbie and I went shopping for the bathroom goodies, and we picked up everything we needed to outfit the shower with rails and a separate, lower shower head for me. The people at the Casa are arranging for the benches we need, and once everything is in place I'll be able to go home overnight. The car transfers all went okay, and every time I do it I figure something else out. I still need a bit of help, and luckily Debbie does a great job of that as well as taking apart and assembling the chair each time. We finished off the shopping trip with a great dinner at a nice Italian restaurant in Claremont.

I'm pretty worn out from the whole week, but I think I made some good progress considering I started over from practically nothing (again...) on Monday, after four days in bed.