More snow?
Jan. 27th, 2019 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkI have shoveled the top half of the driveway twice in just over 48 hours. Once on Friday when I got home from the OT, and then again Sunday morning before I fed the birds. They tell us it's supposed to snow all day tomorrow and blow around. That will be fun. FSVO. One of the nearby school districts has already cancelled school for tomorrow. I suspect others will follow. I may not need to cancel out of FCB rehearsal.
Friday was first real treatment day with the OT, as the first two visits were pretty much devoted to figuring out what's wrong and for her to start working on how to fix it (well, really just ameliorate it). So far, she's just trying to loosen things up - little bit of ultrasound, little bit of directed tool work, etc., and a few little things to do when I'm not doing anything else. She also gave me an exercise that she thinks might help with the problem in the back of the right hand. She wants me to do a very little bit of practicing (like, less than 10 minutes!) every day, and play using the tips of my fingers, not the pads, on the keys. That feels really odd, and I have to keep thinking about it. She strongly recommended semi-weekly paraffin baths to help loosen connective tissue and keep it that way, so I've ordered one of those.
J printed off key extensions yesterday, and they do help. Hot glue for the win! - holds pretty well, and is reversible.
In other news, Mum sent us a bouquet for Christmas, and the balloon that came with it is still mostly inflated and floating around the house. So far today, it has visited DB upstairs, J in the bedroom, and me in the den. It started off this morning in the corner of the living room. We put a couple of tiny neodymium magnets on the string to keep it off the ceiling (the ribbon is a little too short for that), and it will occasionally get stuck to something -- a curtain rod, a shelf frame, a lampshade. :)
Friday was first real treatment day with the OT, as the first two visits were pretty much devoted to figuring out what's wrong and for her to start working on how to fix it (well, really just ameliorate it). So far, she's just trying to loosen things up - little bit of ultrasound, little bit of directed tool work, etc., and a few little things to do when I'm not doing anything else. She also gave me an exercise that she thinks might help with the problem in the back of the right hand. She wants me to do a very little bit of practicing (like, less than 10 minutes!) every day, and play using the tips of my fingers, not the pads, on the keys. That feels really odd, and I have to keep thinking about it. She strongly recommended semi-weekly paraffin baths to help loosen connective tissue and keep it that way, so I've ordered one of those.
J printed off key extensions yesterday, and they do help. Hot glue for the win! - holds pretty well, and is reversible.
In other news, Mum sent us a bouquet for Christmas, and the balloon that came with it is still mostly inflated and floating around the house. So far today, it has visited DB upstairs, J in the bedroom, and me in the den. It started off this morning in the corner of the living room. We put a couple of tiny neodymium magnets on the string to keep it off the ceiling (the ribbon is a little too short for that), and it will occasionally get stuck to something -- a curtain rod, a shelf frame, a lampshade. :)
