During the first couple of days whenever I was writing something on the board in class my left arm would just fold up as if it was still in the sling. Same thing with showering, eating and other things I got used to doing with my arm tied up. Now I'm finding excuses to use both hands: pulling bowls down for the top shelf, washing my hair and sleeping like a bendy Kamasutra cutout. These are all awesome but I wouldn't say I'm out of the woods yet. I can't put any weight on my left shoulder so backpacking is out of the question for the time being. My doctor told me I wouldn't be lifting anything major for a year. However, I'm testing it day by day just to regain the little coordination I use to have. I might be on par with Jepsen here. Still I can't lean on my left side without feeling like I'm going to wobble over. I've also realized that children and homeroom teachers alike are only starting to notice that I'm not in a sling. They all make this face like I'm super human for recovering. I've been so tempted to show them my scar but I feel like that would breach some sort of conduct code.
My doctor offered to get me into physiotherapy but the way my co-teachers handle me being out of the school on a bi-monthly basis I doubt they could handle me being gone every other day or whatever my schedule would be. Which is why I'll start it with Winter Camp and because February is a waste of class time I hope my CTs won't mind that I'm missing Monsters Inc or Toy Story 3. I'm still doing exercises that I've pulled off of medical websites and they seem to be helping and they offer great advice about the before and after physio to reduce pain. Like any forward thinking (fine, impatient) person I'm jumping the gun on some of these exercises. On Sunday morning I found out that I'm nowhere near doing reps with even teenie-weenie weights.
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