{"id":3183,"date":"2025-05-16T14:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2025-05-16T22:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:28:38","slug":"recovery-repair-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/2025\/05\/16\/recovery-repair-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery &#038; Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HIGHLIGHTS MARCH 15 \u2013 MAY 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Arm swing \u2013 April 7, my arms swung automatically for the first time in at least five years, a wonderful sensation; waiting for a repeat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fluid movement around the house \u2013 March 29 for about a week, and occasionally for an hour or so at random. In fact, today increased movement has come and gone since rising at six.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heartfelt connection and joy on the street \u2013 March 30, regularly for about ten days afterwards, and occasionally since.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sometime in February \u2013 my left knee stopped hurting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Voice \u2013 strong for a few days, weak for a couple. Repeat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Restless Leg Syndrome \u2013 same as voice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tremor \u2013 mild except under stress, will disappear for hours at a time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sleep \u2013 typically one or two hours deep, two to four hours awake, three or four hours very deep; two-thirds in bed, one-third in chair. Sometimes I sleep 6-8 hours straight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 26 \u2013 strong experience of Du channel and Ying Tang (third eye), repeating almost daily since.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walking is also various, changing from minute to minute. Janet writes of the importance of imagining how it&nbsp;<em>feels<\/em>&nbsp;to walk. Just yesterday I understood the \u201cfeels\u201dpart of that. It&#8217;s not just about mechanics, but needs to include the emotional and spiritual aspects of movement as well.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My friend Joan passed away about three years ago. For the last year of her life I called her every Sunday to talk. \u201cJust because I&#8217;m dead doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;ll stop talking\u201d, she said towards the end. She&#8217;s been knocking at my door to be admitted as an invisible Friend ever since, and a few weeks ago I finally acknowledged that and let her in. It&#8217;s been good.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Before mid-March my arms would lock up to the point of falling asleep after talking with someone for a half hour or more. That no longer happens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Every incident above should be qualified with \u201cmost of the time\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 13, I fell in the <em>salotto<\/em>. Roman was there. I wasn&#8217;t hurt but struck my head on the floor so we called emergency services. Everyone was very kind. They did blood analysis, checked blood pressure, EKG, MRI, and an x-ray. All was well (and covered fully by insurance, not even a signature was required). I was pretty wobbly and slow until this morning. Since then movement has (mostly) been freer than usual.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for checking, it means a lot to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS MARCH 15 \u2013 MAY 15 Thanks for checking, it means a lot to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidzarko.us\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}