Muscles are moving!!!!!

On Tuesday, my P/T came and tried a muscle stimulator on my body. She put electrodes on certain parts of my body and then turned the machine up until she could see a muscle moving. It felt like my muscle was twitching and pulsating. Anyway, the next day I was sore-like I had worked out. I have not not felt that kind of tiredness in a long time. It was pretty cool. We bought our own machine so that we can use it every day. The machine pulses some kind of electricity through my body for 10 seconds. During this time I have to try and exercise that part of my body. For example, when she puts the electrode on my calve muscle near my ankle, my foot lifts and I have to try and hold it for 10 seconds. Then it will go off for 10 seconds. During this time, I rest. Now, obviously I am not holding my ankle up on my own yet, but that is why it is so important to use this machine. It is still exercising my muscles- I have to keep trying to work with it. The hope is that I will do it on my own. Floria said that she was happy to see muscle movement. It was very little but it was there. She keeps telling me that is not going to be an easy or a quick process. I know this...but good to be reminded. I dream of it just being easy.

Anyway, I am standing with the knee immobilizers for 20 minutes every other day with Mike and working on some core stuff everyday on my own. When Mike is gone, my mother-in-law helps me with the standing. She is always so nice about helping whenever and where ever we need her.

Well, I will keep working hard. I am not sure how much to post because it seems a little boring right now. I suppose I will figure this out as I go along. Thanks for all of your support-it means lots to us.

The long road ahead of us

On Monday, we met with a physiotherapist. She seems to be very good at what she does and we were impressed with her. She is going to work with me, Mike and I will continue the exercises we have been doing and she will give me my own exercises that I can do on my own. We have to stimulate my muscles in order for me to exercise them. I will also continue to go to acupuncture. Meeting with Floria, (that is my p/t's name) was very good but I will tell you that I was overwhelmed. I am so glad I had the procedure, but this part is not going to be easy. I think that the hardest part for me is the patience that I still have to have and the wondering of what will come of this. I have big dreams, but i have had big dreams for my body for 12 years now. I suppose that today, I am feeling like the idea of patience is so far away from me. I will work very hard on all of the exercises but I also must continue to have the heart of perseverance. Mike is overwhelmed as well. As I am preparing my mind to get ready to endure this battle with my body, I am trying so hard to keep my husband encouraged. We are hopeful and we try to encourage each other always; however, this becomes a bit of a challenge when you are feeling like all of this is just to hard. I thank God that these feelings go away. God is going to do great things. His timing is CERTAINLY not mine, but we need to wait on Him. So, first things first, we look to Him for the strength to begin this part of our journey.