7 Months

This has been a very special month :o)  

I have been feeling much better, and  I sometimes realize that things that were difficult to do... I just did them! Some people tell me I look like before going to Germany.  

In a progressive, disabling disease, each reversal is miraculous! When I arrived I used a wheelchair, then a walker and now I've been able to use the cane! I walked barefoot in my appartment without holding onto anything (with tears in my eyes!) and I went walking on the elevator hallway with the AFO only holding sometimes to the wall :) 

I still have to avoid crowds because the hemato-oncologist said my immune system is still the one of someone with Aids, but I feel very optimistic.  One of my goals was to be able to attend to my daughter's school graduation ceremony on December using the cane and now I know I will! 

I asked my physiotherapist a report and this is it:

Much less fatigued.  Higher tolerance to 45 minute exercises

Right side of the body (the affected):

Diminishing spasticity (only some at ankle articulation level)

Fluctuating foot ankle articulation clonus that disappears with exercises.

Lower extremity:

She achieves triple flexion and is improving strength, active mobility and increasing repetitions

Upper extremity:

She achieves shoulder and elbow flexion with more tolerance to the exercise and increase in repetitions.
Hand: achieves fist with diminishing spasticity
Gait: Dynamic balance present with larger support base
Achieves walking without any technical support and fewer compensation of trunk, head and neck.

My recovery is also dedicated to someone very dear that passed away.  She must be very busy now arranging everything for her kids and her closed ones, but I know she is also very proud of me in heaven…