Biofreeze has become a necessity for just about every time I get dressed. Taking off my shirt is complicated and there is something about the movement of my arm down that makes my arm just want to seize up.
Luckily, I didn't do much this weekend other than head out to see my teens that I volunteer for at my parish get confirmed. I was so blown away by them! They were so well behaved and excited for the Mass. They all took the direction to dress well to heart and they just looked fantastic.
Mgsr. Greg Kelly was the presider! It was awesome because he was our guest speaker at my Pastoral Administration class a couple of weeks ago... he remembered me and asked me how my arm was doing. I felt so honored.
Aren't they just darling?!
Seriously. Who wouldn't want to be a Core member with teens like these?
The reception was great! There was cake... and it was delicious and totally worth my cheating on my clean eating for.
With the weekend continuing the cycle of arm spazzing, I was really excited to go to PT today because I knew that I could move my arm a little more. Because we are at day 28, I could finally passively raise my arm above 90 degrees. I prayed that with the extra movement, my arm would finally calm the heck down.
So, off I went to PT this afternoon.. excited for the brand new possibilities.
It started out as normal. Brandie had my hot pad for me... she massaged my arm lightly and checked on my janky scar. We then did the bicep flexion and the external rotation which was no big deal.
...then it was time. She got a hold of my arm and we went to 90. That felt good and it made me happy...
..then the second time we went to 105 degrees range of motion. My... gosh. That was painful. I actually got hot and started sweating from the adrenaline kick. I have a crazy pain tolerance, so if my body starts to do funky things, you know that it was painful. I had to go to a happy place and just enjoy the ride.
The final set, we went out to 120 degrees. It burned like fire, but it got somewhat bearable at the end. Brandie said that she was being nice, and that we wouldn't go farther that day.
..I am not looking forward to 180. Just saying. Ugh.
There was so much passive range of motion. So much. It was surprisingly exhausting. I was relieved at the end when I got to ice... and go to CrossFit.
Today was Monday Massacre at CrossFit Big D. It was 5 rounds of a workout every 7 minutes at 100%. I was pumped. I modified it of course (which Coach Laurie was happy to help me do).
5 rounds/every 7 minutes
10 KB One arm Clean and Jerks (25 lbs)
10 GHD situps
10 KB Squats (44 lbs)
10 One arm Strict Press (30 lb DB)
1:42/1:43/1:50/1:53/1:40 (Hot dang)
...I just about died at the end. Laurie had to remind me to not be a total spaz and not aggravate my shoulder by involving it too much.
Shoulder was still all aggravated and offended from PT. I had to keep my scap locked back and even then it was crotchety.
I then went to Cryo to see Hope. First, I pretty much ate it stepping into the Cryo chamber and slammed my shoulder into the wall. That was not awesome.
Hope with her magical fingers of awesomeness worked on my angry, angry shoulder and my crazy scar. That and my legs, hips and back have not been even or happy since I have gotten back to fitness. It's amazing how much going to see her pays off. I was in a crazy amount of pain and general jacked-upness of my neck and shoulder was making life pretty difficult.
I am so blessed that I have so many resources and people who care so much to aid in my recovery. Hope said that it was her goal to make my scar disappear. She has been working really hard on it. I have gotten compliments on how well it is healing.
That's all her. Lord knows all I've been doing is eating, sleeping and working out. Haha.
28 days out... hard to believe that it looks this good.
Another two weeks before I'll be out of this sling.... cannot... wait...
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