Yesterday, I felt pretty good at work. My legs were relaxed on my drive in and remained that way all day at school. It wasn’t until I got off of the freeway at Sheldon that I could feel my legs start to tighten a little. I was still able to transfer out of my chair and get mostly up the ramp. I had decided to wheel up the ramp backwards (it’s a bit easier) but Megan saw me struggling and pulled me in the rest of the way.
I got on the blue table and laid on my back and I truly began to feel how tight my legs had gotten. I couldn’t lay flat on the table and my legs kind of bowed in an arch in the air. Mike began stretching my ankles out to loosen them up. Before I laid back on the table, he said he wanted to get me standing and maybe walking on Friday. He asked how that sounded to me and I thought it sounded wonderful!!! But my body had different ideas. It started to become apparent to me that standing wasn’t going to happen when my legs would resist Mike’s stretch and involuntarily bend at the knee. Mike would look at me and say, “Aww Boooo!” Which I began to say as well every time my legs did it.
As Mike was stretching me, the high school group was running timed sprints. A LOT of them! Dan was calling out the time in seconds as they ran past me. I could see their sweat drenched shirts and their red, sweaty faces running by. All of them (both boys and girls) were panting and gasping for air as they kept running. I told Mike that I could NEVER do that! Push myself THAT hard! But just as the words were out of my mouth, I realized that is what I do EVERY DAY. I have sweated only a few times where I feel like I’m going to be sick at Barwis but I have worked hard EVERY TIME I come! Even when all I do is try to move my foot out wards because it has become crossed with the other foot. Well, that stinks!!! I wish I had something more to show for my efforts!!! I told Mike about Jesse’s “accident” analogy that he told me SO LONG AGO now and Mike nodded. It really stinks that it STILL is so true!
Mike finished stretching me out and Megan and Connor took me outside. I got into my car alone. Connor helped me to get my feet in. He didn’t chant Phil’s “bends” but it still made me laugh. It was something about “bending my iron legs.” I drove irritated that my legs didn’t feel as relaxed as they did last week. As I was in the house getting ready for bed, my son asked me if it was raining because he heard the cars outside riding on slick roads. It was. No wonder I felt SO tight!!! I told Mike that weather was a big factor and it IS!!! It rained this morning too. Humidity was at 72% today. It did NOTHING for ,my hair and even less for my legs!!!