NEW CHAIR!!! and other things that happened this past week

Oh man, so much has been going on, but every time I get home and get ready to blog, I'm too tired and just fall asleep. I'll start with therapy and work my way through the last week. Therapy has been especially amazing lately. When I first started at Kansas Rehab, I wasn't really impressed or comfortable, but I got to know the therapists there quickly and now I love it. I've been working super hard on walking, doing all sorts of therapies and using all sorts of machines to relearn what I forgot and get my muscles to listen. A couple of days ago, I walked by myself in the pool while holding onto the rail(my knees still like to do funky things, like lock, go backwards, and collapse out in front of me). I was so happy with myself. My therapist, Gus, walked next to me, but he didn't have to hold on to my gate belt and the few times my knees collapsed, I was able to pull them back up under me. I'm sooo close to walking it almost hurts! I still have altered sensation from the bottom lip down, but I feel heat and cold and pain where I could not before. My lower legs are regaining muscle strength and they have stopped hurting all the time. I think the lowered sensitivity and pain is due partly to PT and OT.