So THIS happened...
November 5 I’m at physical therapy and my therapist, Alicia, says let’s try something. She points me to the bar and asks me to try walking not holding on to anything! Wait, WHAT!?! Then this happened... https://youtu.be/fMyZKwwDXWs She’s teased me before about actually using the walker, since I often carry the walker instead of using it, but to purposely choose to walk without anything in my hand!?! Secretly I’ve wondered if I could, but I wasn’t about to ask out loud something so crazy. So we get up to the bar and "set" up. Meaning getting it in my head I’m about to walk and work on convincing my body to join me. I take my first steps and put my hand on the bar. Fix my feet position and try again. Take a few more wobbly steps and stop. I broke down crying my first steps in 14 months. Alicia my physical therapist cries with me, thank goodness I’m not the only one. I am just overcome with gratitude for this hospital and all the people who poured into me over the last 1...