The Good Morning Thread

Good Morning, my fellow Medicare buddies ! Spent the week end away, and sure was glad to get get back home.
The outside wedding was a bit nippy, very noisy, and only reinforced my reasonings on why I do care for large gatherings much- anymore.
Hope you all have a great Monday !

 

Good morning! We are finally out of the 80's, high of 77 today and each day will be a little cooler. That's how our weather is...changes very gradually a couple degrees at a time. True for the summer also.

 

Yes, PT can, and will, hurt. Actually, I thought PT was bad on my hip, from hip replacement, until I had it done on my shoulder, from rotator cuff surgery. Seemed like the shoulder was much worse. I was given a prescription pain med by my surgeon, which through some of my PT sessions, I took right after the session at home. During the beginning of my sessions, there were some exercises that definitely got me teary-eyed from hurting. Actually, I seen some PT patients that got a lot more than "teary-eyed" from some exercises. The Physical Therapist actually had to stop the exercise and let the person calm down.

I had electrodes done on my shoulder also.

There could be times where you might ask yourself, "and this pain is suppose to make me feel better later?" I wasn't totally convinced that it would, at the time, but it did!

Sure hope this PT works for you.

 

Well, the temp this morning at 7AM was 44 degrees. We both said, "44 degrees, Florida isn't Colorado! We'd expect this temp there, but not here." Guess you folks can tell that we have never/ever got use to the Fall and Winter temps that can happen in northeast Florida.

All we can say is........"brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and this is Florida????"

 

I hope so also...had my doubts over the weekend after my Friday session. Saturday I woke up with my neck being stiff and painful along with my upper shoulder.

My range of motion with my left arm seems worse than before I started.

Reaching behind my back with that arm hurts the most and I can't seem to pull it up very far with my right arm....with a rope of course. (One of the exercises).

Unfortunately my next session isn't until the 6th...that was the earliest appt. I made 2 appts in advance but can't do it too far ahead because of Thanksgiving etc.

I am trying to do some of the exercises that I can at home, which is most of them. They're all really basic and except for the massage and machine don't really need them to be able to do them.

Maybe later they'll get different exercises.

 

I done exercises at home also. My therapist told me that doing them at home, in-between sessions, would help me a lot. It did. I found out, talking to my therapist, that there are some folks who refuse to do "in-between session exercises" at home and start using their injured part way before they should. Oh well, that's them, not me.

 

Thanks @Yvonne Smith ....I'm not even sure how that arm became like that. The left shoulder has always been the one that tended to hurt occasionally but the arm was fine.

Maybe I pulled it without realizing it and then because it hurt I started to avoid using it and it froze.

 

@Terry Page, I think you could call your entries here a diary of sorts, and you get the added benefit of your friends feedback. Plus we worry about you if you go missing for more than two or three days without telling us.

@Chrissy Cross, I know you are in pain, but I also know that you’re still looking forward to playing and keeping up with your younger grandsons. So at the point of your worst pain try to visualize yourself keeping up with the boys. It helps “some”.

I’m not sure how things go in your area, but here, I was finally lucky enough to come across an orthopedic surgeon that runs a pain clinic. Now I know that most of those clinic are a farce, but not this one. He does help me deal with my advancing condition, but not with just pills. He recently move to a new larger building. The largest part of his clinic is set up for physical therapy, and there is always a therapist right there with you, and I get a massage right after a workout. He set me up so that I can come and go whenever I feel well enough to go through the treatments. There are even plans to install a pool for those that will benefit from exercising in water. I can get pain pills when I get to the point that I can’t move, but I don’t have to take them every day, and if I feel that I need to go for therapy daily, I can.

My doctor has even come to my house to help me install my garden tower, which also let him see my living conditions. He took the opportunity to show Bobert how to help me when I fall.

He told me that those pill pushing clinics will be fazed out soon, and the real clinics will have have to show that they capable of doing real physical therapy.

 

That sounds like an awesome pain clinic @Ina I. Wonder ...wish I had one like that. I was referred to one here and I think they just like to push their epidural shots. When I refused one on my spine, he was pissed.

 

Hi, everybody. Nothing exciting going on here so I'll just say, 'Hi, have a good day or night or whatever."

 

Years ago, I had several cortisone shot in my lower spine, that’s when I figured out that wasn’t for me. There was a little relief, but the pain just got worse after a couple of months.

It seems a person can have several types of arthritis at the same time. Doctors would tell me this, but for a long time they never elaborated as to what kind, much less what to expect.

The doctor I have now will set me down, and try to help me understand what is actually happening to my body. I admit I find the explanations scary, but at least now, I understand that there is no cure for me, and I’m more ready to deal with what I have to. Being told about what happens with Ankylosis Spondylitis makes the therapy much more acceptable. It doesn’t make the pain go away, but now I’m more willing to endure the pain.

 

You're lucky to have a dr like him, @Ina I. Wonder.

 

Good morning to you all, it's a damp bright morning here, sadly not another sunny one like yesterday, I am going out to meet my daughter Caroline for a coffee now at the library cafe, she is on a study work day there.

Thanks Ina I. Wonder I can always check in here and see what I did yesterday

Enjoy your day

 

And Happy Halloween. I have a bark filled evening to look forward to. My neighborhood is full of kids and houses are close and it's a big flat subdivision....trick or treaters dream.

I wouldn't mind but with Pickles it's a hassle. I bought Reese's peanut butter cups because they're my favorite.