Wednesday, August 10, 2005

heat, stretch, ice, splint

That is how my morning started. I went to hand therapy this morning...yes, hand therapists deal with elbows, shoulders too :) I saw Mary. She did my hand therapy 16 years ago after I had wrist surgery. The heat felt good on my elbow but not on my forearm or the front of my arm, they got scalded. The ice took care of that. I have to do stretching exercises 3 times a day and ice it down two to three times a day. Also, no lifting...like resistance...I said "um, what about getting laundry out of the washer, making my bed...". It seems all my daily chores irritate my elbow...even getting dressed hurts. Well, as much as this hurts, the scrapbooks for VBS were so worth it. I pray the kids will look back on them in years to come and think of the story of Christian and desire to live a godly life like him. Even if one child does that it will be worth it all.

Hope is doing well...still needing heavy pain meds occaionally. It hurts her to smile, but it is hard for her not too :)

I'm soooo excited my wonderful brother, Skip just called, he is coming over to start painting the downstairs. YEA!!! :)

2 comments:

Autumn said...

I want to see pictures of the downstairs when it's painted!

Dawn made me realize I should have taken before pictures of the yard and house before I started the house prep frenzy.

Kathie said...

I will post pics after we get the futon put together and in the room, if I can figure it out, otherwise I will e-mail them to you :)