Health Update

I am home.  I am working to set up at home physical therapy for a couple of weeks, until I can get into the outpatient clinic at Inova Mt Vernon.  I really had no idea, the inpatient facility is one of the best in the country.  They did amazing work, and I pushed hard and want to get better.  On the way home we stopped at the pharmacy for prescriptions and using a walker, I walked in and waited, we picked up lunch and ate in the car, and we went out to the DMV and picked up a "handicap" parking permit. DMV was the least accommodating space, a bad traffic pattern that requires a lot of walking, no power door openers, and no accommodation inside, stand in line and wait.  But the mission was accomplished.  The parking permit will really help here at the Condo, with parking that is flat (slopes are a challenge) and closer to the lobby doors.  We are coping so far with the challenges at home, it will be a huge load on J for a few weeks.  Each day I get back the ability to do just a little more.  They said by the time I could get myself into the brace without help, I'd be ready to stop wearing it.  Follow up with neurosurgeons on the 15th.  So I have a couple of weeks to heal and build strength.  When the office said the 15th, I said I will be ready to Waltz by then (I never could dance, but might just try.)