Sunday, October 1, 2017

Meet Matt: Physical Therapist Extraordinaire

September 2017


Larry’s arm is doing much better, thank you Miracle Matt and York General Physical Therapy.


He can drive now. He’s been off the prescription pain meds for quite some time and he hardly even takes Tylenol anymore. He’s been able to sleep in a bed instead of the recliner for a while. Matt did recommend that he wear the arm sling while sleeping so that he doesn’t thrash around but yesterday he even said he could stop that. The thing that makes me nervous is men have a way of greeting each other with a slap on the arm. I’ve seen them do it before but now I’m hyper aware of it so I see it all the time! What’s up with that anyway? What a strange way to say hello. Wearing the sling kept people (and by people I mean men. Women hug or just say hello) from doing that. Now that Matt says he doesn’t need to wear the sling anymore I get to be the one who watches for this odd gesture 
and hopefully stop it before they do it and we end up in the hospital again.
Anyway… they say he’s fit to move on. He’ll have 6 to 8 more weeks of physical therapy but they’ve given him enough exercises he can do on his own so he can take a break from seeing someone for a while.
We hit the road again October 1st!!!
We’re heading south to OKC then west to Bakersfield! We’ll be able to visit with some family and friends and hopefully see a sky full of balloons in Albuquerque!
I’ll post pics!
For now here’s Larry’s (ever the engineer) contraption for keeping his arm loose!



The pulley worked really well keeping his arm loose but the ropes were hurting his wrists.


He added carabiners to the rope. Problem solved!

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Larry and I decided to retire and hit the road. We bought a new 5th Wheel and new truck to pull it. We packed up the dogs and we're heading out to check off that bucket list. We wake up every morning and "Thank Our Lucky Stars" that we get to do this.