{"id":646,"date":"2009-07-13T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2009-07-13T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T18:00:19","slug":"who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">Here I am, sitting up in a wheelchair after weeks of lying in bed unable to lay on my back and being moved by nursing staff from side to side. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">Who knew I would ever have to do this? \u00c2\u00a0 Who knew I would ever have to learn to walk again? Can you even imagine what it is like not to know how to get your body to walk?\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I have some remarkable therapists who have started working with me on this.\u00c2\u00a0 It is very slow going and more painstaking than I would have thought.\u00c2\u00a0 However, no pain no gain. Pierce is even learning the techniques to help me get up and down from bed to chair to bed. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I can say that my typing skills have slowed.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been working with a therapeutic form of silly putty to build my muscles in my hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">Thanks for all the well wishes. It certainly brightens my day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">My wish for you today is that you thank God each day for your good health and well being and that you support others through small kindnesses who may not be as fortunate as you are.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, sitting up in a wheelchair after weeks of lying in bed unable to lay on my back and being moved by nursing staff from side to side. \u00c2\u00a0 Who knew I would ever have to do this? \u00c2\u00a0 Who knew I would ever have to learn to walk again? 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