Progress!!

Yesterday I did some major cleaning. I helped the kids clean their terribly messy rooms, and even rearranged their (very light) beds. I put a bed skirt under the girl's bed, which involved lifting the mattress. By the end of the day, I was not feeling all that great and had to take half a pain pill before bed.

This morning I did more cleaning, including lots of laundry (no folding). Then I went to water aerobics and was able to do a bit more than I could last week, but had to stop b/c of pain. A couple of hours later I had physical therapy. To be honest, given everything I'd been doing the last 2 days, I was seriously considering canceling!

I got to PT and had to warm up with a pulley thing and was about in tears. I did several new exercises and even used 5lb weights to do kickbacks and bicep curls, as well as 15lb rows. I did lots of other stuff without weights.

My shoulder... omg. It's tired, but there is no pain. It feels like it's had a good workout, but again--no pain. I even just put my hair up in a pony tail that wasn't at the nape of my neck! (I've been able to do a low pony tail with some pain for a week or so. Prior to that, I couldn't lift my arm enough to even do that!)

I'm thinking that by next week I might be ready to join the other gym and do some real workouts!! I'll probably keep doing water aerobics for awhile so that I can get some arm movements in that are easy on my shoulder.

This is the first time in so long that I feel like I'm moving FORWARD instead of backwards or in limbo!