Dr. Pain (PT) got me good today-- she is continuing to find new muscles. There is a structural orthopedic thingie I have always known about (causing bilateral imbalance/weakness) that never caused serious dysfunction till now (due to age/weight), so she is retraining my bones to move the way they probably always should have, and that's where the newly sore muscles are coming from-=- not places that used to be strong and are not now, but places I never developed at all from birth.

I have progressed to a new level of PT, where I can now add land-based versions of some of the things we do in the pool, because I discovered one night quite spontaneously that I could do one of them lying in bed which I had not been able to do on land at all, so she gave me a great pictorial worksheet to work from to keep those new muscles engaged properly (counterintuitively).

Today I made a poolside counter so I can keep better track of how many reps/sets I'm at. People keep talking to me while I work and I lose my count (strokebrain thingie).

I was able to start this year's studies today, and boy did THAT feel good. A colleague unexpectedly received a set of used books that she wanted to aim my way, and (TBTG!!!) it's just exactly the book I could not have afforded yet.

MIL is here and I am so enjoying my clean house. It's much easier to keep it that way when it starts REALLY clean.

~Susan