02/24/2010
Went to the PT today to do my therapy. I can’t complain too much, my PT says I have been doing very well; much better than some of her other clients. There really hasn’t been any exercise that I haven’t been able to do…except for today.
After doing the different types of exercises the PT and I have been doing, she said she wanted me to do 2 new ones.
The first was walking leg lunges from baseline to baseline on the basketball court.I was feeling pretty good once I got to the far end of the court, but she said I wasn’t through yet and that I needed to come all the way back. So I lunged all the way back, looked at my PT and told her that was way to simple of an exercise. She just smiled and said,"That’s good, because you need to go down and back two more times" . I need to learn to shut my big mouth at times, because by the time I was done my quads and hamstrings were on fire.
For the second exercise, I was told by the PT to stand and balance on my repaired AT foot. Once I was balanced (still wobbling a little), she placed 3 little orange cones on the floor in a triangle shape around me (1to the left of me, 1 in front of me, 1 to the right of me). She then told me to squat down on the one leg and touch the top of the first cone to my right, then to push myself back up, then squat back down and touch the top of the cone in front of me….and so on. I COULD NOT squat down and touch the top of those cones. No sooner did I bend my knee to squat, I’d loose my balance and almost fall over. I stood there for more than 15 minutes trying over and over again to squat and tap, getting more and more angry at those D@#* cones. I lost my cool and kicked one of the cone across the basketball court. My PT smiles and said "Now you can lunge your way over there, pick the cone up and lunge it all the way back over here" .
Once I got home I spent almost 35 minutes digging through the old sport equipment from when our boys were younger. Footballs, tennis rackets and balls, Frisbees, baseball gloves, soccer balls…..AT LAST, the same D@#* little orange cones.
I guarantee by the next PT session on Wednesday, I’ll be able to touch the tops of those orange (aka Krytonite) cones .
5 responses so far ↓
1 marina // Feb 25, 2010 at 10:36 am
Oh dear! I don’t think I can squat to my GOOD leg, if my PT asks something like that, I’ll ask him to show me first
2 "Frouchie" or "Grouchie", or just "Chris" // Feb 25, 2010 at 10:52 am
Yep..thats what I thought too. When she told me how to do it, I gave her my stupid look, so she showed me.
That is what pissed me off so much, because she could do it and I couldn’t.
When I got home and dug out the silly little cones, I tried it with my good (well better kinda) foot…and yeah I could do it.
I hate those cones.
3 marina // Feb 25, 2010 at 11:06 am
You certainly have a good therapist. Practice and concentrate, you’ll eventually succeed!
‘It’s all in your mind, your body and your soul’
4 normofthenorth // Feb 25, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Wow! I’m with Marina!
5 chocolata // Feb 28, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Um… I want to check if I can squat to my GOOD leg to touch a cone, but I can’t give it a try now
It’s been 4 days since you wrote this. How have you been getting on those orange things? I’m sure that the day you’d love them will come soon!
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