PT & OT

Today is Wednesday, July 26, 2023 and although I had just two appointments for the day, I feel exhausted. I think the heat doesn’t help and drains a lot of my energy as well. The temperatures have been spiking world-wide these days and Kuwait has been no exception.

Back to today’s appointments…I arrived at PMR at 10:00 am and as always my vitals were taken first. I had slightly low blood pressure but nothing alarming. Still, I made sure my PT knew about it and informed her that I didn’t really have a good night’s sleep last night…Just when I thought my PT couldn’t push me further, she did. We increased the reps of all my lower body exercises today with the ankle weights and added the stairs workout as well! Honestly, I was proud of myself for completing every exercise my therapist wanted me to do.

You should have seen the relief on my face when my OT told me we’d be working on my hands only today…Finally, I can give my legs, and the rest of my body, a break! We headed to the other building where we usually go to work on my hand exercises and after applying the heat pads for 10 minutes to loosen my hand muscles we got started. We used different tools to work on my finger muscles, wrists, and forearms. It felt great finishing all the exercises before our time was up. Woohoo, I get to go home a bit earlier than usual. Four days down…one more to go tomorrow. I got this!

اللهم فرّج همنا ونفّس كربنا واشفِ مرضانا يا رب العالمين إنك على كل شيء قدير.