Late Report

This was written last week: Little has changed this week. Except perhaps that I climb and descend the stairs independently. This of course has made me a bit more overconfident. That combined with impulsiveness caused a bit of a problem this past Tuesday. I was in the office and decided to leave. Instead of standing up and getting my balance, I stood up from the chair grabbed a cane and in my haste I rolled my left ankle. In doing that I was extremely off-balance and executed what I call a controlled collapse. Others would call this a fall. However, in an attempt to lessen the damage I sprained my left wrist. At least it wasn't the good one. When I saw Doctor Siler on Friday, one of the things that we discussed was a splint. He okayed that.

Another thing I have been considering is - and I invite your comments on this - acquiring a recumbent trike. I can get exercise and won't have to worry about balance. What you think? Of course I won't be on the main roads, but I'll ride around this residential area.

And this is from the current week: I'm still going to PT and OT twice a week. They both take a toll on my energy. I'm still working at getting a recumbent tricycle. There are a couple projects around the house that need to be taken care of. Those will have to be contracted out.

I still have the goal of crossing the new bridge being built by Tri-Met when it opens in September 2015. I've written to the folks at Tri-Met asking whether there's anything in particular that I need to do, but I haven't heard back from them yet. I have faith that they'll respond.

All in all, progress seems to continue to be at a snail's pace. And although people say to me such things as, "you're making such great progress," all I can see is that I don't slap my left foot when I walk until I get tired. That's about 400 feet. I can walk up and down stairs step after step, but that's if there's a right-hand banister.

One thing I am happy about (you may have realized that I'm not over the moon about my progress) is that I found a way to deal with the STP issue. I'm not sure if it's what cascade.org really wants, but it's what I'm going to do. I'll let you know later how it turns out.

That's about it for today and this week. Talk at you later.