Thursday, my Mom asked Brad to transfer me from the table back to my chair when my time was up. He did and my Mom told him that he was, “Smooth.” He laughed. I thought about this, first of all, it’s Brad’s job to help transfer people. He knows how to get the correct leverage to make the transfer easy or, “Smooth.” Secondly, Brad is taller than my Mom. Now, I am five feet tall. My Mom has always said that she was 5’1. I bought that. She was taller than me. Now, you can reach your own conclusions and reasons for this but now as an adult, I can see the top of my Mom’s head as I stand with her help in transferring. ??
Monday, Brad transferred me onto the table and my Mom reiterated that it was, “Smooth.” As Brad was loosening my leg up so my knee would bend. He told me that my knee was still swollen and once my knee was bent with my foot pretty close to my butt, he used his fingertips to work some of that swelling away from my knee. He pressed my leg with two of his fingers from my knee up to mid-quad. I could feel something move as he used his fingertips. I ALWAYS love feeling anything in my legs but I especially love this particular feeling because something was moving away from my knee so maybe it will stop hurting or at least hurt less!
After he worked with his fingertips and I rambled about my weekend and Sean’s mouth surgery, I glanced down at my knee and Brad was “knuckling” the outside of my knee. Michael Rhoades used to do this so long ago. I smiled at the memory and thought about Michael pressing his knuckles harder than Brad was. Brad knuckled me more therapeutically. I continued to feel movement and I really liked that!
Brad finished up and straightened my leg out and put it on the cushion to get me ready for stim. Alanna hooked me up and iced me. It felt really good! I hate that I STILL wake up in pain but my knee feels SO MUCH better when I’m at physical therapy! When my time was up and Alanna took off the pads and my ice, Brad taped me up again. I REALLY liked that! My knee felt cradled again and that makes me feel that my knee is more safe and secure. It was a good night at therapy (they ALL are) but it felt good with the fingertips, knuckles, AND tape! And then Brad transferred me back to my chair just as smoothly.