I'm glad I am feeling better --
Oct. 25th, 2024 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resoluteToday I:
Went to my first hand OT appointment. I really liked the therapist! She has EDS and has had THREE reconstructive surgeries on her joints because her connective tissue is dogshit, so she absolutely understood - for the first time I have ever experienced with ANY physical therapist!! - my concerns and problems with PT and OT in the past. I have a massage ball, some gentle exercises, and optimism about the future of this process.
Came home and immediately went mattress shopping. Affordable Mattress, on Rice St. in St. Paul, is exactly what it says on the tin. Affordable. Mattresses.
Purchased a mattress, box spring and cheap metal frame for eldest child, whose ex is keeping their bed, and arranged for it to be delivered on her move-in day. Purchased a mattress for younger child, who informed us that there was an actual spring sticking loose in his and he's been sleeping around it for a while now. Purchased a memory foam mattress for spouse and I. Arranged for delivery of the latter two mattresses to our house, today.
Delivery was, very clearly, CURBSIDE. And since this is Affordable Mattress and not fancy-ass mattress, there is no 'mattress disposal' in this situation.
Accepted delivery. Moved old king mattress to temporary location blocking entire front window. Spouse put an ad up on Craigslist. (If you are in the Twin Cities and want a used flippable king mattress, about four years old, LET ME KNOW.) Wrestled memory foam king mattress through our very small, crowded house to bedroom. (All on one floor, thank goodness.) Memory foam collapses and does not steer through hallways very well. Son cleared his old mattress out of his loft frame and hauled his twin mattress down. I help very mildly in the making of the bed. (New mattress is about 4" taller than old one, and he will have to re-learn to not smash his head on the joists and pipes above his loft.)
Cleaned up everything we had moved out of the way for the shenanigans.
At this point the various exertions caught up with me. I took my prescribed pain medication, THC, and spent about three hours vaguely not-watching a movie while resting my eyes.
And then, about twenty minutes ago, I spilled a bowl of boiling water on my hand. Whee.
It has been a DAY.
Went to my first hand OT appointment. I really liked the therapist! She has EDS and has had THREE reconstructive surgeries on her joints because her connective tissue is dogshit, so she absolutely understood - for the first time I have ever experienced with ANY physical therapist!! - my concerns and problems with PT and OT in the past. I have a massage ball, some gentle exercises, and optimism about the future of this process.
Came home and immediately went mattress shopping. Affordable Mattress, on Rice St. in St. Paul, is exactly what it says on the tin. Affordable. Mattresses.
Purchased a mattress, box spring and cheap metal frame for eldest child, whose ex is keeping their bed, and arranged for it to be delivered on her move-in day. Purchased a mattress for younger child, who informed us that there was an actual spring sticking loose in his and he's been sleeping around it for a while now. Purchased a memory foam mattress for spouse and I. Arranged for delivery of the latter two mattresses to our house, today.
Delivery was, very clearly, CURBSIDE. And since this is Affordable Mattress and not fancy-ass mattress, there is no 'mattress disposal' in this situation.
Accepted delivery. Moved old king mattress to temporary location blocking entire front window. Spouse put an ad up on Craigslist. (If you are in the Twin Cities and want a used flippable king mattress, about four years old, LET ME KNOW.) Wrestled memory foam king mattress through our very small, crowded house to bedroom. (All on one floor, thank goodness.) Memory foam collapses and does not steer through hallways very well. Son cleared his old mattress out of his loft frame and hauled his twin mattress down. I help very mildly in the making of the bed. (New mattress is about 4" taller than old one, and he will have to re-learn to not smash his head on the joists and pipes above his loft.)
Cleaned up everything we had moved out of the way for the shenanigans.
At this point the various exertions caught up with me. I took my prescribed pain medication, THC, and spent about three hours vaguely not-watching a movie while resting my eyes.
And then, about twenty minutes ago, I spilled a bowl of boiling water on my hand. Whee.
It has been a DAY.
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Date: 2024-10-26 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-28 02:46 pm (UTC)New mattresses
Date: 2024-10-26 05:57 pm (UTC)are cause for celebration!
I'm not a parent, but I'm surprised that you rewarded youngest child for sleeping around.
grin
Sympathetic OTs are the best! I just saw one last week and perhaps my hand will be happier next year?
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Date: 2024-10-28 02:46 pm (UTC)