Yay For The Long Weekend

Today is Tuesday, July 18, 2023 and I’m thrilled for the 2-day Islamic New Year holiday tomorrow and after tomorrow. Although it was a short week, the past few days have been really overwhelming. I also haven’t been feeling that great emotionally, and that’s manifested in me physically. Hopefully I’ll get some rest this long weekend and do some fun activities…and let’s not forget my kids will finally be arriving Thursday evening! Woohoo! Now that’s definitely something to look forward to! الله يردهم بالسلامة.

Luckily I didn’t have any early appointments this morning…The first thing I had was my PT session at 10:00 am at PMR. Today is actually the mid-way mark for my program at the PMR center. I can’t believe a month has already passed and I have another month to go…It’s crazy how time flies. Speaking of time, I arrived on time and had to wait a little bit for my therapist as the team was wrapping up their weekly meeting with the their supervisor. My therapist knew I was tired the second she saw me so she said we’ll do as much as I could for today but I had to promise I’d do my daily homework over the next 4 days…Which we all know I will. We got started on my lower body exercises, standing and no longer sitting, as I had mentioned in my last post. Then we did a 15-minute treadmill walk…the time actually went by faster than I expected. We ended our session with 10 minutes using the deep oscillation machine on my upper arms and shoulders. It was so relaxing, I almost slept.

Next up was my OT session where the focus was on my upper body and more so on my hands. We started the session with a 5-minute heat pad placed on my hands to warm up the muscles. Then we used all the tools in the picture above to work on my fine motor skills and to strengthen the tiny muscles in my fingers and my arms. We used the orange band to work on my biceps, triceps and back muscles. We went over the daily homework I’d have to complete over the next 4 days, said our farewells and then I headed home. Yipee! Long weekend time! Oh wait, not just yet…

The last appointment for the day was my weekly zoom therapy session. I feel like my therapy sessions always fall on the days I need them the most…funny how it works out that way. Today was an emotional session…Good emotions, sad emotions, happy emotions, angry emotions, frustrated emotions…A melting pot of emotions. What I’ve been going through hasn’t been easy and I’m blessed to have the opportunity to get the therapy I need to see me through it.

And now I can say ‘Yipee! Long weekend time!’. I hope you all enjoy the next few days with your family, your loved ones, or even with yourselves, and I’ll be back with more updates next week.

سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك، سبحانك رب العرش العظيم، والحمدلله رب العالمين. اللهم لك الحمد والشكر في السراء والضراء، وعلى أي حال تقدره لي، الحمد لله رب العالمين.