{"id":98,"date":"2017-09-20T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T00:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journey.jayctheriot.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T00:54:34","slug":"small-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Small Accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Walked around the block with Kathy yesterday morning.<\/li>\n
  2. Drove myself to doctor & Rally’s and home.<\/li>\n
  3. Walked around perimeter of two blocks with Kathy this afternoon.<\/li>\n
  4. Five minutes on lowest setting of recumbent exercise bike (almost killed me, but done.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I feel the need to continue to be in front of this thing.\u00a0 I’m going to begin researching what exercises I can do to help stave off the effects.<\/p>\n

    I suspect that stretching will be the major part of keeping the spasticity at bay.\u00a0 However, there must be strengthening exercises I can do. The key will be to return the muscle to a relaxed state at the end of a workout and then rest afterward.<\/p>\n

    Kathy and I went tour a gym today.\u00a0 She won a free two week pass.\u00a0 It is highly unlikely that we will become members there because they want an 18 month commitment, and they have no pool.<\/p>\n

    Hydrotherapy is what the doctor is suggesting.\u00a0 For that reason and the fact the I get a veteran’s discount at the YMCA, a membership there is all but a fore-gone conclusion.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 what I did see is a video room with stretching information.\u00a0 I plan on assaulting that tomorrow.\u00a0 I am beginning to feel like Number 5 on short circuit.\u00a0 “I need input!”\u00a0 “Number 5 is alive.”<\/p>\n

    I was asked by a close friend today if the doctor told me when I could expect the symptoms to return.\u00a0 The answer is no.\u00a0 We don’t know what causes the spasticity in my case.\u00a0 However, we all believe that the collapse gave my muscles time to heal and rest and that we are currently in a much better place than we were prior to the collapse.\u00a0 I am taking much less medicine.\u00a0 I am considerably more mobile.\u00a0 The pneumonia is gone.\u00a0 I have a few more days on the MRSA antibiotics.\u00a0 I sweated today and felt good.\u00a0 Yesterday, I would sweat and then have to sleep 3 hours.<\/p>\n

    Mom-in-law is characterizing it as a miracle.\u00a0 Kathy says it’s a second chance. I’m feeling considerably thankful that I can move and that He put an end to almost nine months of continuous suffering.\u00a0 I look on this past year almost as a dream.\u00a0 I can’t imagine that I was in that amount of pain for so long.<\/p>\n

    It is my sincerest prayer and mission that I don’t get that way again.<\/p>\n

    Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n

    Jay C. Theriot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Walked around the block with Kathy yesterday morning. Drove myself to doctor & Rally’s and home. Walked around perimeter of two blocks with Kathy this afternoon. Five minutes on lowest setting of recumbent exercise bike (almost killed me, but done.) I feel the need to continue to be in front of this thing.\u00a0 I’m going […]<\/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-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}