{"id":129,"date":"2017-10-05T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journey.jayctheriot.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2017-10-05T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T19:46:31","slug":"physical-limitations-oct-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Physical Limitations, Oct. 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I overdid it yesterday, but I&#8217;m recovering. I sat in a 2 hour seminar about social media and then dined out. In all, I was out of the house from 8:30 to 1. Mom came over for coffee at 1 and I didn&#8217;t have enough control to even pour.<\/p>\n<p>Before my collapse, this would have brought me considerable and non-terminating pain. Now, by 9 pm last night, I had my muscles back in check, working again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sore as heck, and really tired, but I&#8217;m functional.<\/p>\n<p>My current functional limitations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can sit for about 1 1\/2 hours before cramping.<\/li>\n<li>I can drive a car for about 20 minutes with minimal discomfort.<\/li>\n<li>I can ride as a passenger for about 45 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>I can walk without mobility aid for about 2000 steps.<\/li>\n<li>I can run my wife over with the electric buggies.<\/li>\n<li>I can program in 30-60 minutes spurts.<\/li>\n<li>I cannot stand for more than a few minutes without pain.<\/li>\n<li>I can prepare about 3\/4 of a meal.\u00a0 I need help chopping.\u00a0 I can finish cooking the meal, but I need someone to take over in the middle to let me rest.<\/li>\n<li>I cannot sit in a chair\/pew without a cushion.<\/li>\n<li>I cannot lift more than a gallon of milk (8 lbs) without pain.<\/li>\n<li>I cannot run or walk in heeled boots.<\/li>\n<li>Pushing buttons on a joystick hurt bad.<\/li>\n<li>When in pain, changing channels with a remote control is painful, so I&#8217;ll put on a movie that will be long so I don&#8217;t have to change anything.<\/li>\n<li>I cannot read a paper book.\u00a0 The movement of turning pages is too painful.<\/li>\n<li>When in pain, pouring and drinking a cup of liquid is impossible.<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 day of light activity requires 1 1\/2 days recovery.<\/li>\n<li>I can purchase a grocery bill, but loading and unloading the groceries to\/from the car is extremely painful (and exhausting).<\/li>\n<li>Taking a shower remains an exhausting task.\u00a0 The required movement of my muscles in unusual positions to wash\/rinse\/dry\/clothe everything is daunting.<\/li>\n<li>I pay bills as they arrive as writing more than 3 checks becomes painful.\u00a0 Check #4 is barely legible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In all, things are improving, but we still have a long way to go before I get to a point where I&#8217;m happy with my physical self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I overdid it yesterday, but I&#8217;m recovering. I sat in a 2 hour seminar about social media and then dined out. In all, I was out of the house from 8:30 to 1. Mom came over for coffee at 1 and I didn&#8217;t have enough control to even pour. Before my collapse, this would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}