Rachel’s Ataxia Treatment Blog

May 2nd

May 2nd, 2007

Already it is May and time to write again about my progress or lack there of. I’ve had a few falls of late and badly scraped and bruised both knees so I haven’t been able to do my floor exercises with the weighted stick for a while. Yesterday I saw my occupatiional therapist and we ran through all the fine motor skill tests again. I had made an improvement in all but one test which involved putting the tiniest, slipperest pegs into a peg board. This was great to know as I then keep motivated to do the boring repetitive hand exercises. The exercises have also been designed to increase my wrist and finger dexterity but the damage from the arthritis is making progress hard.

I have just been out in the yard trying to train a very enthuisiastic, naughty, 11 week old puppy to walk sensibly on the lead and not jump all over me when she sees me. I don’t know how far I got with the actual training but I did manage to stay upright the whole walk. At times with the pup and the lead wrapped around my legs this was quite a feat.

It is quite difficult to keep my exercises up when the improvements aren’t obvious but I will keep persisting as a better quality of life is what all stem cell patients strive for. I am in a better position now than I was before I went to China but I can’t measure this.

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