Rant #3,389: Pipe Dream

Yesterday morning, I moved past another hurdle in my road to recovery.

I actually took a shower in the morning without any help.

This is the first time I have bathed myself since the end of October 2023, or when I first hurt myself.

Since then, my wife has helped me to take a shower, as I wasn't very stable in the bathtub due to my dodgy left leg.

But I have become more stable with my injured leg during the past few weeks, and it was time to see if I could do it all by myself--

And I could, so I can check thst off of my post-injury to-do list.

This was a major hurdle for me to overcome, and I was very careful as I got into the tub, put the shower on, and then shut the shower off and exited.

And it felt good to do it all by myself; this is an action that is second nature to all of us as we move on from being a toddler, but when you sustain an injury like I did, you have to learn how to do it all over again, and to put your fears in the rear-view mirror.

So I now can do everything I did prior to my mishaps, but I don't do them the same way or with the rapidly that I used to do these things.

But I can do them all, so I am 99 and 9/10 percent back to where I should be.

Look, I am never going to be as flexible as I once was, but I can certainly live with the way I feel right now.

I have come a long way, and I continue to work hard at both physical therapy and at home to get as close as I can to 100 percent, but even if I can't reach that level, I have impressed myself that I got--and am still getting--so close.

This latest success was a huge one for me, and yes, I am kind of proud of myself.

Looking back months ago, I had a lot of doubts about my condition and where it would take me, so I went from being bedridden to being fully mobile in just a couple of months.

Again, I was told my recovery would take seven-to-12 months, so now, about nine months into this, I am right on schedule--

And the next three months should be quite interesting.

I feel that I can do just about anything, and I fully expect to be able to do everything in the coming months.

Why not?