Accomplishment! Feeling good about myself today!

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Today started off as most days do, with me waking up, laying there reading a bit, then getting up and piddling around the house a bit.  I put away the dishes that I had done yesterday, and played on the pute for a while.
I had my lunch - a can of chicken salad (or what was left of it after I dropped it on the floor) and some sunflower seeds - then got back up, and did pute time again.
I laid back down, then got back up and did my exercises, adding a new exercise to my repertoire - wall pushups.  This is when, instead of laying on the floor to do pushups, you do them against a wall.  I'm not too sure about these yet.  I don't have a lot of strength in my upper arms, but I did better than I thought I was going to.  I only did 5 of these pushups, so I'll have to build up to the 15 reps that I'm doing of everything else.  But, I figured that I could at least try, and I did!

Ron didn't get home until after 6, and we didn't have time to eat supper, because I had an Altar Society meeting to go to.  I did sit with him in the living room until time to go.  I was sitting in my recliner, and when it was time to go, I just pushed, and VOILA, I was able, for the first time since my fall, to push down the footrest of my recliner and get up without bothering him to rescue me!  WhooHoo!  What a step in the right direction!  I even put the footrest back up and did it again, just to make sure I could really, really do it!  Oh, yeah!  Did that feel good inside - to know that I could finally do that!  That one thing has made me feel kinda useless, and now I can do it!  Yay!

I went to my meeting, and I guess my little speech at church last weekend did a little bit of good, because there were more women there tonight.  I thought there might be this week/this month, next month and in the future will be the test.  We had a good meeting, and we have some good things coming up in the future.  I got back home about quarter after 9, and I made myself my version of shit-on-a-shingle for supper, even though I'm trying to cut carbs way - WAY - back, but it's really late, and I really need to eat something soon.  My new plan is coming along, it just keeps hitting obstacles.  After I eat, I play on the pute some more, then sit in my recliner and watch some TV, then I lower the footrest myself - teehee!  pat myself on the back! do a couple of cartwheels! - and come back to the pute to close out the night.

I had an ice cream, and I am hoping that having my supper (and my dessert/snack) so late that it will stave off a sugar low.  Even though I am not doing MFP this month, I am pretty sure that I'm very, very low on calories today.  We shall see.

Orthopedic dr. appointment tomorrow morning.  I have a whole notebook page full of questions.  I'll see the PA, not Dr. Stupido, so maybe I'll actually get some answers!