Once a week

    It had been five days since our last physical therapy appointment. The therapist checked in to see how Amaya’s been doing. She asked about pain and Amaya said it’s been “tolerable and ok.” She said it’s pretty much the same with no big peaks. She said the pain is mild and most days she’s not taking Tylenol.  She said it doesn’t fully remove the pain so she doesn’t see the point of taking so much medication.  

    The past few days we’ve noticed she’s been able to do things a lot easier in her day to day life. I let the therapist know that we see it in how she sits, how she moves in bed and when she sits in a chair, couch or her shower chair. The therapist said that Amaya has been able to maintain her range by the daily activities she’s been doing, which is great! With the combination of her daily mobility and physical therapy homework she’s maintaining and gaining mobility. The therapist was impressed and said that’s great!  

    The therapist asked Amaya how she felt about a goal of 130 degrees today. Amaya said it seemed doable and agreed. She did some stretches that were a bit painful but she was able to power through. She was at 130 degrees at her first measurement, an increase of five degrees since our last visit. The therapist told Amaya that said if she could maintain her range of motion then she can drop down to having pt once a week. She said that if we drop down and then Amaya begins to lose some range then we’ll add more days per week to get it back. Otherwise she can stick with once a week until she can begin to bear weight (in about five weeks) then we’ll go back to twice a week to help build strength and help develop her gait. 

    The therapist said that the sooner we can gain full range of motion the better. She said we don’t want to go slow especially since Amaya's been going fast so we’d like to keep at that pace. The therapist is requesting 2x's a week, just in case we need them, and if we don't we won't use them. It'll be nice to drop down to once a week for the next few weeks. It's great how well Amaya is doing. Thank you all for the support.