I woke up fairly early this morning but with a headache and not feeling very good, so I didn't go out for a walk. After I had drunk some liquid and been up for a while, my sinuses drained some and I felt fine.
I went to my first physical therapy appointment this morning. First, the therapist asked lots of questions and recorded all the details about my shoulder injury and how I'm doing now. Then, she spent some time running an ultrasound wand over the area of the tear. She explained that this can help reduce the inflammation caused by the injury and may help to decrease pain and to increase the mobility of the joint. Nothing but surgery, however, can actually stitch the tear back together, but if the eventual mobility that I can gain through treatment is sufficient, I may be able to elect to skip the surgery. Finally, she did some fairly strong manual manipulation of the area which was slightly painful. She also told me that I need to put ice on the shoulder for 20 minutes each day, not because of pain but to help combat the inflammation. She was very nice and fluent in English (and she told me that she is also fluent in Dutch because she studied physical therapy in The Netherlands!).
We had lunch at Rachel today. David had the grilled cheese sandwich that he loves there, and I had a delicious mushroom quiche.
This afternoon and evening, we finally got someone to clean our house. His name is Baruch, and he is great and VERY thorough. He works fast and efficiently, but he still only managed to clean about 80%-90% of the living room because our place had gotten VERY dirty. He'll come again next Sunday to continue cleaning, and we plan to have him do maintenance cleaning regularly even after he has finished his thorough job on the entire apartment.
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