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Baby Steps

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I am finally walking on the treadmill with my hands swinging as I walk rather than holding onto the handlebars tightly for fear of losing my balance. I wasn’t at all sure that my brain and body could be retrained after the anesthesia from my surgery in February caused both hearing loss and loss of balance. Now I have hearing aids (!) and I am having success on regaining my sense of balance. I’m still walking slowly and really having to concentrate, but I am improving each day. 👍

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I’m making progress in my efforts for there to be less of me. Since I moved to Thailand and saw a doctor here in April for a baseline, I’ve lost 9.8 kilos or 21.6 pounds. All told, I’ve now lost 34.48 kilos or a bit over 76 pounds since my heaviest. There are 68 fewer inches of me. I can finally see a possible goal weight. I am now in the healthy weight range on the BMI charts for the first time since I started my efforts about two years ago.

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Since I’ve been building my strength, can now hear with hearing aids, am improving my balance and mentally pushing myself a bit, I’ve started small ventures out on my own. Today I’ll take a walk to visit the Koi fish!

Baby steps to be sure, but progress!

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Progress

Harvey was too sleepy to do his swallowing therapy this morning, but he cooperated the best he could this afternoon, trying his best to lift arms and legs on command, plus sit up, trying to straighten his back to sit up straight and lift his head to look at the beautiful view, plus stand up in a complicated piece of equipment. It took two really trained people to get him in it and back in the bed again, but I was so proud of his effort.

We got a phone call a few minutes ago that his physical therapy sessions will be at 10, 2, and 5 tomorrow. Hopefully he can make the most of these! 😀

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