I woke up to this thought for the day:
Well, I know that I am trying!!! I just have to wait and either way good things will happen but I’d prefer “better”things to happen.
Yesterday, Phil started stretching me at the Keiser machine. It was Friday. The habit now is to immediately go to the mat. I asked him why we were at the Keiser machine and he repeatedly answered my questions with his usual responses of, “Shhh,” and, “just.” After he stretched me, we went over to the mat. Phil moved it to the middle of the turf away from the clock as is the usual place now. He told me to get down on the mat and he started stretching me more. I was laying on my stomach and he was stretching my left leg. My foot was up in the air and he was stretching me HARD-CORE! He lifted my knee up a little and I began to laugh a little bit because it hurt SO badly. He lifted my knee a little more and I yelled, “Unbelievable!” It just came out because it hurt SO much! Phil was amused by this and continued to repeat it for the rest of the hour.
After this CRAZY stretch, it was time to kneel. Yesterday, it was a little bit MORE difficult because my butt, quads, and hamstrings were STILL hurting! I can’t see the clock when it is time to kneel so I just kneel until Phil tells me to stop. Phil says that I knelt 12 times for a total of 7 minutes. I knelt 10 times for 30 seconds and twice for 1 minute. It felt like A LOT longer than that!!! But, I just did what Phil told me to do. I KNOW that it had to be longer because after Barwis, I drove straight to the Center for Performing Arts for the viewing of the Dearborn High student films. (My nephew was in one of them). After it was over and the lights came up, it was UNBELIEVABLE how much my butt was hurting!!!
Phil had to put me into my car yesterday after my three failed attempts to do it on my own. I have decided to stop “stealing his thunder” after he gave me a forced “joystick” AGAIN and just let him do his worst. So, my butt STILL hurts A LOT and this is a new “hurts so good” for me. I KNOW that it is good that it hurts but I didn’t know that it could hurt this MUCH!!! But I’ve said before that “I’ll do ANYTHING to walk” and if enduring this pain is part of that “anything” then BRING IT!