You know when you go into a PT place, and they start asking questions about you, so that there's something to actually have a conversation about, aside from just doing the PT? That's basically what they would do when I'd go in. they knew that I was really into this British television show, and so I'm sure they'd get me talking about it, so that the conversations while I was there wasn't just talking about the PT.

I noticed that a few of those girls had a tendency to kind of pick on me a bit in reference to my liking the star actor of the show. The kind of picking on that I would get when I was in high school. Where you're not sure if they're doing it good naturedly, of if they were starting to get to where they were actively being kind of nasty about it. I was ignoring it a lot, but with a few of the girls there, it did start to get kind of annoying.

The last couple of months, I'd noticed they were all a bit distracted when I was there. About two weeks before I quit the PT, they told me they'd be moving at the end of february. (I quit PT just before Valentines day) It was basically just a sports medicine PT place, not really a place that catered to people with MS.

If my insurance hadn't changed, I'd go to the spine hospital here in town that has an excellent PT group. (fancy swimming pool with the movable floor, huge state of the art PT gym) That place is now out-of-network for me. So, I have to go see what stuff the new physiatrist will have access to.


I'm going to try to do more stuff at home with exercise. I've been doing some remodels in our house, and my bedroom was one of the rooms that got remodeled. My bedroom now is a lot bigger, and it's got a nice spot in it where I'm bolting a grab bar to the wall, so that I can hold on the the bar and try to do exercises. I have some serious plans for my little exercise spot in my room. (right now I'm using my bathroom because it has nice grab bars in it to hang onto)

A lot of the exercises that I have planned involve just walking in place, and other exercises that I can do while hanging onto a grab bar. Balance things. I also have those rubber thera-band rubberband strips for some exercises. I have weights. I also have an exercise bike. Right now, I am so deconditioned by everything, and not having energy. I just need to do something to get energy to be able to do all of the stuff I want to do.

Really hoping the new physiatrist will be a bit more helpful than the last guy.