Exhausted

Today is Thursday, July 27, 2023 and I woke up feeling draaained. I contemplated whether to go to PMR or not but I remembered both my therapists saying they wanted to work on stretching today and I felt like my muscles really needed that. Unfortunately I had yet another night where my sleep wasn’t that great so I woke up on the weary side but I kept telling myself ‘It’s Thursday, let me get in one more session this week and I can catch up on my rest during the weekend’. I pulled myself together and gathered all my energy to get dressed then headed to my PT and OT sessions.

I arrived at PMR at 10:00 am and went straight to the nurse’s station for my vitals to be taken. Again, my blood pressure was on the low side today but this time both my therapists could also see that I wasn’t feeling my best and they were hesitant to have me do any physical work given my state. They had me speak with their supervisor who asked me a lot of questions just to make sure I wasn’t coming down with something or that there wasn’t anything serious happening with me. It was agreed by all that it would be better for me to take a day off today, get some rest, and hopefully come back on Sunday with full energy, ready and able to perform all my exercises effectively.

Both of my therapists agreed that we could do a short stretching session of 20 minutes maximum before I headed back home. We went to the therapy room and they got started on me right away. As always, my thigh muscles are my biggest problem so the focus was just on stretching them, specifically my inner thigh muscles. Each therapist held on to one of my legs and the stretching began. AAAHHH! I forgot how painful stretching is! Although my muscles have come a long way in terms of their tension, some of the muscles are still very, very tight. As painful as the stretching session was the relief I felt afterwards was truly amazing…Especially after they applied some heat pads on my thigh muscles to relieve the pain and tension. Pure bliss!

I was only there for 30 minutes, the shortest I’ve ever been at PMR, then I was on my way back home and I couldn’t have been happier. I was tired, and felt depleted, and I just wanted to be relaxing back home. Hopefully I’ll catch up on my rest during the weekend and I’ll be re-energized to get back to ‘work’ on Sunday. I really hope you all enjoy the weekend ahead to the max.

رب اشرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمري واحلل عقدة من لساني يفقهوا قولي.