Thirty-Seven Per Cent!

Tuesday night, May 6th — I waited to write this till I got the chart of last Thursday’s re-exam. Okay, okay… I set an unrealistic goal for myself. I was so sure I’d be up to 50% of my possible improvement! Shot myself in the foot once more, just as I do so often. Why am I not learning my cosmic lesson any better, I wonder?

Anyhow: I WAS pleased that the chart shows me up to 37%. That’s not far off 40%… and that’s kind of close to 50%… (shut up, shut up, shut up , Betsy! Stop doing that!)

David Klein said yesterday that he was "shocked by the results," and I guess he meant that as a GOOD kind of shock. He was on about my foot a lot too — he said that at the beginning, when he called it "a block of wood at the end of your leg," he also noticed a sort of "unhealthy gray color." Doesn’t that sound enticing, though! Now, he says, the color is better, the edema is gone, and the bones inside are beginning to move. That all sounds pretty good to me. Maybe I really won’t have to go under the knife again!

Also, DK reminded me not to expect to keep improving to such a steep degree each four weeks. He thinks it’ll level off a little now, and was warning me not to get discouraged and give up. "We may have taken care of all the relatively easy problems," said he. "Now we’ll get into the more difficult adjustments, and those will take time to show up." Rats! I get a little taste of success, and in my usual Capricorn way (determined, hardworking, boring in the extreme because of that determination) I don’t WANT to level off. I want MORE! MORE! MORE!

Maybe I’m just crabby because there weren’t any goodies on the desk yesterday…

I think it’s getting easier to load myself onto the table face down. But not much. Good grief, yesterday I was flapping about like a mermaid trying to haul herself up onto the shore! (Nicer than a fish out of water, you see.) Once I’m arranged, it is easier to stay that way for a while, I do note that.

Well, tomorrow is another day (thank you, Scarlett O’Hara)! My shoulders were pretty damn sore all day today, and the upper arms too, but maybe that is because I’ve been doing a big editing/rewriting job and have been at the computer for hours on end. That can’t be too good for them. Another adjustment tomorrow… I can hardly wait.

Thanks for reading,

Betsy