Jenny had her 1st Physical Therapy today. It was informative and insightful. She has real good strength in her legs and has improved a lot since she came home last week.
One of the tests checked her legs for feeling, hot, cold, and so on. That test was fine. Then they tested her feeling vibrations with a tuning fork. At this time, she did not have feeling for vibrations between her knees and her ankles. They mentioned that this is where a lot of your balance comes from and that will be the big focus over the next few weeks. She has been given exercises to help bring those sensory pathways back and/or allow her body to make new paths. The therapist did say that there are ways to compensate for that, but I don’t think we want to compensate after all that she has been through!!!
For the ones that have walked with Jenny over the past 8 months with her constant pain in her lower back, you should know that the only pain that she has now is from the incision. She has not had any lower back pain since the surgery. J
I caught her in the kitchen today showing Anna how to make bread and bake a cake for Katherine’s 17th birthday, so things are slowly progressing back to normal.
We meet with the Radiation Doctor on Thursday at M.D. Anderson and next week with her hematologist.
So, Jenny says to pray specifically for the “vibration” feeling to return to her legs and for her to gain the balance needed to get rid of the walker.
Her surgeon told her that she could ride in the car now, so I think the first place she will want to go is to church on Sunday. Hope to see ya there!!!
Ron
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