2018--Striving to Make This Year Our Best Possible
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The place where I’ve been going for PT typically has each therapist working with 3-4 people at a time, but usually there are 3-4 therapists and assistants and all are assisting each other to ensure that the clients are doing their exercises correctly and not waiting for the therapist to finish with someone else to get back to you. All of the therapists and assistants were aware of what my issues were and what my treatment plan was, so if my lead therapist was busy, one of the others could tell me what exercise or stretch was next on my program and demonstrate it, if needed. It was kind of a fun place, in that the atmosphere was always light hearted with a lot of teasing and joking among the therapists and clients. They seemed to have an excellent rapport with each other as well as with their clients, but they were also very attentive to the clients. It made the time go by quickly. The exception was the therapist who specialized in hand issues. He was the only one who worked with his clients at a table built for about 3 people. He moved back and forth among his clients continuously and didn’t take part as much in the general shenanigans as the others.0
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Pam--The place I went to also had assistants working with the PT. I really enjoyed going to PT for the same reasons you stated in your post. I thoroughly enjoyed going there for 2 times a week for 3 months even if it did mean I had to drive an hour to get there. My Christmas present that year was being promoted out of treatment. I actually missed the place and the people as I'm not around people who laugh a lot, etc.
I spent a half hour murdering weeds by putting weed killer on in one section. This is a never ending job. The weed killer I have isn't as good as the last brand IMO. As a side note to that, the Fitbit didn't give me any active minutes for that work as it didn't elevate heart rate to the cardio zone for a long enough time.0 -
Here are the Emmy nominations for series. I now realize that I am truly out of it. There is only one of these that I watch (and I watch a lot of tv) :
Comedy Series
Atlanta
Barry
Black-ish
Curb Your Enthusism
GLOW
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Silicon Valley
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Drama Series
The Americans
The Crown
Game of Thrones
The Handmaid’s Tale
Stranger Things
**This Is Us**
Westworld
Limited Series
The Alienist
American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Genius: Picasso
Godless
Patrick Melrose0 -
The exception was the therapist who specialized in hand issues. He was the only one who worked with his clients at a table built for about 3 people. He moved back and forth among his clients continuously and didn’t take part as much in the general shenanigans as the others.
I'm discovering that the hand therapy being different is true everywhere.
I LOVED going to p/t for my heel. It was like a cool gym but where I was comfortable.0 -
I think PTs who work with hand issues require additional training, so there definitely aren’t as many of them. In my place, their diplomas and licenses were displayed and his had a lot of extra initials that the others didn’t have. I kind of formed the impression that he kept himself apart from all the joking, etc. until one day when I was there and they were short handed. He was helping out with the general clientele and he turned out to be the biggest jokester of all. My revised opinion after that was that he just was very focused on his hand clients when he worked with them because he was the only one who worked in that area, and therefore didn’t pay attention to what else was going on around him.0
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Apparently it's easier to get into p/t school than o/t school and the hand therapists are mostly o/t. Not sure what that means; just an interesting factoid.
I've been amusing myself by googling some of the billing codes. Very interesting how things work.0 -
Maryanne, It's great that you have the therapist's attention start to finish. It would seem to me that would give the patient the maximum benefit. Trying to oversee 3 patients at a time may help the practice's bottom line but it would be easy for the therapist to miss something the patient isn't doing or is doing incorrectly. Sound like you're working with a good therapist/practice.
It is weird about my Wednesday losses. With any luck, a loss will show up two Wednesdays from now. It seems to take at least 2 week for any progress to show up. We'll see if my pattern holds.
Jean, Sorry your finger is giving you pain. Does the humidity make it worse? Try to pace yourself on the weeding so you don't put too much stress on your hand. Better to take a few days to complete it than increase your pain because you did too much at once.
Pam, that lunch sounded amazing.
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Maryanne--I'm not familiar with any of the comedies. I've seen 5 of the dramas. The Crown and the Americans are very good.0
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Here are the Emmy nominations for series. I now realize that I am truly out of it. There is only one of these that I watch (and I watch a lot of tv) :
Comedy Series
Atlanta
Barry
Black-ish
Curb Your Enthusism
GLOW
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Silicon Valley
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Drama Series
The Americans
The Crown
Game of Thrones
The Handmaid’s Tale
Stranger Things
**This Is Us**
Westworld
Limited Series
The Alienist
American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Genius: Picasso
Godless
Patrick Melrose
I've put in bold the show I've seen. Mrs. Maisel is on Amazon is very cleverly written. It's by the same woman who wrote the Gilmore Girls. The dialog is very fast paced and the lead actress is amazing in her delivery. The Crown is on Netflix and it's terrific. I binged watched The Crown while I was in FL over about a week.0 -
I forgot to say I've seen This is Us. It's a great show as well.0
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I've seen a couple episodes of Black-ish here and there but not captivated by it.
In search of mindless summer watching, I've been watching Life in Pieces, all 3 seasons.0 -
I binge watched Bosch, an Amazon series and really liked it, I also liked Goliath from Amazon.
A really good movie is "Brain on Fire," found at Netflix. It is based upon a true story.0 -
I love Bosch in the books. I bought Bosch on Amazon. I can't get into it. I have no explanation.0
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Maryanne--Bosch is one of those series that takes time to get involved in it; the first episode didn't immediately grab me either. Love the meme except Midnight did not inherit the box gene.
My beautiful black cat and I wish everyone a very lucky Friday the 13th!0 -
I've started watching "The Looming Tower" via Hulu. All the hype is right; it is great. I did 50 minutes of exercise watching the first episode. Jeff Daniels is fabulous in it. Fascinating reveal of the events and lack of cooperation eventually leading to 9/11.0
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I love Bosch in the books. I bought Bosch on Amazon. I can't get into it. I have no explanation.
I had to add the devices that I'd be using to access amazon. It was in one of the Amazon Prime tabs. You locate your computer/laptop, DVD and or TV models. Search for that tab and see if you are able to add your devices. They have great free movies and series that you can binge watch once you've finished your setup.0 -
I have a Roku that streams all selected services to my TV. I only select the free ones plus Hulu, Netflix, and the Amazon Prime items. If it is a Amazon movie not available via Prime, I just don't pay to watch it. My TV is older so it is not a Smart TV so I have to use a Roku or similar streaming device. Hulu and Netflix both have great original series, as well as Amazon Prime. It costs money to even travel somewhere to take in a movie so the money I pay for my Netflix and Hulu is easily justified as I use them daily. Right now, I'm watching episode 2 of "The Looming Towers."0
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17 years go by:
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MY box - forever!!
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My FL TV is a smart TV so it's easy to stream on it. I have one flat screen TV here but it's not a smart TV. We bought it a couple of years before they came out with smart TVs. My other sets are pretty old. My sister streamed Netflix through her blu ray DVD player. I brought one back from FL but we haven't hooked it up yet. Neither of us are that tech savvy so we've been procrastinating at trying to hook it up. Currently I watch Amazon on my laptop. If I were to replace any of the older sets. I get a smart TV. Jean's right about subscription prices. I pay just under $100 for Amazon Prime for a year. You could do it monthly but it's cheaper to pay for the year. A movie around here is $8 or $9 dollars so you'd very quickly justify the subscription. Like Jean, I just watch the free movies and some series.. Lots of the movies are only a few month old although they have older titles as well. I don't have a Kindle or I'd download free books for that.0
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Helene--I milk that Amazon Prime membership for all the benefits I can get out of it. You don't have a Kindle? Download the Kinde app and use it to read.
I am on Day 71 of logging in my food. I eased up some this week on what I've been eating to give the routine a little break but I'm starting back to "eating healthy."0 -
Jean, does MFP tell you how many days you've logged your food or do you just keep track. I looked around the home page and didn't see a counter for it but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. I'm somewhere between 3 and 4 weeks of logging.0
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I went back to check. I've logged 24 days which is a lot fr me. It would be great if there was an easier way to keep track than having to scroll back through the log.0
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Helene--Congrats upon your logged days. The easy way to get the # of days is to click on the "My Home" link as it gives that info there.0
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The number of active minutes this week. The Fitbit counts active minutes as minutes above ten minutes in an activity. If you spend 11 minutes of walking, etc. it will report that. Now, if you stop and then start again a few minutes later, you have to rack up the ten minutes again before it registers them but it will then add them to the previously earned minutes.
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A beautiful sunny day! A friend and I will be off to the city in a few minutes. We will have lunch out and she needs to follow that with some grocery shopping. I got in a half hour of exercise while watching CSI on Hulu. I'm on season one.0
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A friend and I made a trip to the city as she was wanting to eat out, and I am always for that. We also made a trip to WalMart where I picked up a replacement for my fire alarm and LED light bulbs. I had the tilapia with steamed veggies for lunch.0
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