Joint contractures
are a good example of this challenge. Contractures are a preventable source of
excessive disability but this is Multiple Sclerosis and muscles act weird, dysfunction
begats dysfunction. Believe me not everyone, including myself, is on the same
page for a boatload of reasons.
Sometimes
advocating is about trying to prevent things from worsening.
Sooooo
it ‘ain’t been broke’ in so long I got curious and dropping by early to pick
Patti up I found her in physical therapy room, strangely laughing while doing
her assisted knee contracture exercise instead of cursing and swearing her
traditional therapy language. Therapist shared her ‘numbers’ reflecting Patti’s
improvement as I shared my anecdotal evidence that I could not even remember
the last time she did not extend her legs when I transferred her.
In
talking we discovered my own health issues had apparently played a beneficial though
unintentional role. Just before my lung cancer surgery the time of day for
Patti to wear her braces was changed to early evening. Laying in bed Patti was
unable to tinker with braces making then ineffective as pictured to the left. So evening LPN’s began applying braces around 7 PM and removing each
night at 11 PM when overnight shift arrived. Unencumbered overnight sleep was
as important as the 'low-load, long duration stretch'.
Prior to
my lung cancer surgery I would often return Patti later than earlier and was
working on my average of 3-4 outings per week. The problem was that by doing so
I was short changing the duration of ‘low-load, long-duration stretch’. When
our daughter stepped in during my recovery from surgery to pick Patti up and
bring her home for visits she improved two critical things. She reduced the
outing equation to 3 and since she does not physically transfer Patti herself learned from staff that they usually transfer Patti to bed after dinner approximately
6:30 PM. A timetable which not only is MS fatigue friendly and Patti prefers
but enabled a regular nightly schedule of 4 hrs of low-load, long duration
stretch.
Sometimes
advocating is also about learning better ways to accomplish the same thing.
Patrick Leer
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