This week's focus was to get me on my feet as much as possible with a eye towards walking. On Wednesday they brought out this contraption known as a LiteGait. It comes with a complicated harness and hoists you up so that you can walk without the burden of your own body weight. It is essentially a Jolly Jumper for grown ups. Only, Jolly Jumpers are supposed to be fun. The LiteGait is a great tool but I would not call it fun, let alone comfortable. The harness straps around your groin so that is where the burden of your body weight is felt. It kind of felt like a rock climbing harness/bicycle seat. Of course, being my first time in this contraption, there were a lot of necessary adjustments to be made before they were happy with my set up. In the end I was up and down four times and walked the length of the hallway outside the physio room. We are going to try again next week and will hopefully be up and running (well, inching) more smoothly.
I spent the rest of the week doing strengthening exercises and standing/walking with the parallel bars. My stamina is getting better and I'm noticing the return of some muscle mass in my legs. I am also a big pile of jello at the moment and really enjoying the weekend break.
I don't have a whole lot else to report this week. Life in the rehab hospital is becoming routine and is not so bad.
:) - Thanks for the update
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