{"id":650,"date":"2009-07-30T20:48:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T00:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2009-07-30T20:48:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T00:48:55","slug":"climb-every-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Climb Every Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the Sound of Music.\u00c2\u00a0 The Von Trapp family and the love plot are just my kind of diversion from everyday life. I particularly like the idea that they travel far and cross all kinds of mountains to get to a better place.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I thought of this song this morning as I was working with my physical therapist, Yvonne,\u00c2\u00a0 to navigate stairs in the rehabilitation area of the hospital. Having been able now to walk with a walker fairly well, we knew it was time to try the stairs.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to be able to get up 16 stairs to get to the bedroom I will stay in when I am ready to be released for outpatient treatment.\u00c2\u00a0 This afternoon I went to the stairwell with my therapist and climbed 16 stairs – 9 at a time and came down without falling.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Climbing every stair is an effort.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little easier coming down.\u00c2\u00a0 I just have to be careful not to fall coming down and have found that stepping down backwards is easier than coming down like most people do. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Being released to climb those stairs and doing it well enough is my goal.\u00c2\u00a0 They are saying that I probably will have done this enough to be released by them on Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get too excited, though, I still have to deal with the medical team and the Leukemia team who could need me to take more chemo.\u00c2\u00a0 I will find that out tomorrow. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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There may be more mountains to climb yet. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you climb mountains with confidence when they come your way.\u00c2\u00a0 A positive attitude when times are tough can go a long way toward getting through things. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the Sound of Music.\u00c2\u00a0 The Von Trapp family and the love plot are just my kind of diversion from everyday life. I particularly like the idea that they travel far and cross all kinds of mountains to get to a better place.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-medical","category-personal-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}