That's right...take each day as it comes...but also have a plan in place for the future. Plans may change but I find that they help me to keep the focus and I have to be flexible and realize that many times the mind is willing but the body is not.

With any kind of activity I think it's important to remember to work on an equal amount of rest and activity. Even when I was doing my physical therapy every day throughout the day I made sure to rest in between. My progress was better and I avoided (as much as possible) overdoing things and setting myself back. I started with 10-15 minutes of activity with at least half and hour of rest (sometimes more). As my stamina and endurace improved I gradually worked my way up to longer periods of activity and short periods of needed rest. This also helps to avoid the other aches and pains you can get in your body due to your reduced activity. As you slowly work you way up in activity levels your body can slowly adjust to the longer periods on your feet and stuff.

Remember that if you need to sit down and rest for a little while that this is okay. What you don't want to do is allow yourself to get into a cycle where you are not moving at all...that's the real danger. Better to spread out that activity throughout the day with rest periods than to do a 2 hour marathon of activity in one shot and then be down for the rest of the day or even multiple days. Test your limits and know what you can handle. Set that baseline and then work on improving over time, setting goals for yourself.

That was the best part of my physical therapy. I had a wonderful therapist who came to the house and she did an amazing job helping me set and reach goals...gradually increasing the difficulty of the exercises so that I kept moving forward but never overdid it and experienced a setback. When I went to the outpatient physical therapy several years ago I think the experience was not as good because they tried to force too much too fast without the gradual progression. The focus with the at home therapy was on the gradual progression and on the exercises I was doing not just IN therapy but also outside of it.