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The Pain of More Than Halfway There

by Sheila Collins | Aug 6, 2015 | Health, Personal Stories, Story-telling

After ten weeks and the twice-weekly Physical Therapy sessions and daily exercises, I am no longer managing with only one hand. The injured arm still needs strengthening but that’s starting to happen, so being able to drive seems to be in my near future. Monday I get...

Discovering the Elusive Obvious

by Sheila Collins | Jul 29, 2015 | Health and Wellness, Past Events, Story-telling

“The quality of your life is the quality of your movement.” Moshe Feldenkrais I awoke the other morning to the above quotation, and it felt like one of my most respected teachers had come to give me a message of encouragement. Now deep in the daily discomfort and pain...

The Consolation Vacation

by Sheila Collins | Jun 30, 2015 | Health, Play, Story-telling

When a fall in my dance class a month ago caused us to cancel our European vacation, my husband worked to came up with an alternative. The doctor made sense when he said, “postpone the trip till you can really enjoy it,” but we then both had a block of free time in...

Undoing the Damage

by Sheila Collins | Jun 17, 2015 | Story-telling

It’s been a month since the fall that changed my life and I’m now beginning the restoration phase of the project. Last Thursday I had an evaluation at the physical therapy clinic in my neighborhood where I was given a few passive exercises to begin undoing the muscle...

Falling: Aftermath

by Sheila Collins | Jun 9, 2015 | Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Story-telling

It’s day 24 since my fall in a Sunday morning dance class ended my life-as-usual routines. Instead of taking a Zumba class this morning I will sit on a chair in the hallway outside the bathroom door, set the timer on my cell phone and use a pulley apparatus to slowly...

After The Fall

by Sheila Collins | Jun 1, 2015 | Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Story-telling, Uncategorized

It’s day 16 since my fall, the pattern interrupter that broke my shoulder (or more exactly, the humerous where it inserts into the shoulder) and changed every activity of my daily life. Luckily I’ve learned quickly how to sleep on my back in a stable, relatively...

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The Pain of More Than Halfway There

Discovering the Elusive Obvious

The Consolation Vacation

Undoing the Damage

Falling: Aftermath

After The Fall

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