Moving Right Along

        It;s hard not to compare your progress with others that you are in rehab with at the time. I now realize that rehab can be just as individual as each person. There was a lady that started therapy the same time as I started therapy, but after about 4 weeks she went home? At the time and many more times I  had to realize that I can't compare my progress to another's progress. Each person has different  problems, and it depended on how severe the stroke. It also depends on what part of the brain was damaged? It would make me think when someone left before I did that maybe I wasn't as deserving or they knew some secert I didn't know? It wasn't that I didn't want it as much as they wanted the recovery? Woe is me just get up and conquer this  problem! Oh if it could have been that easy! We would continue daily trying to get the arm and leg to respond with  electric machines (Tens Unit). The machine would send a current to stimulate the arm or leg to respond? I looked forward  to therapy every day! At this point I couldn't dress myself, but my trips to the bathroom was getting easier! I had not fallen since the time when I first started trying to go to the bathroom. The fall happened  one evening and the nursing tech that I had that evening I wasn't comfortable working with. I had gotten up to go to the bathroom , and when I was ready to go back to bed  we tried to get up and my left leg would just not hold me. I remember asking the lady to wait until  we  got more help. She refused and said we could do it ourselves? I should have refused to moved until we got more help. We tried to get back to the chair, and the next thing I knew I was in the floor! The only thing I can say about this is if it don't feel right, Don't Do IT!