Progress

Tendons heal slowly and painfully.  Every day, I make a tiny bit of progress as I extend my elbow just a little bit farther and it becomes just a little bit easier.  Each stretch is painful, and I still have funny bumps on my elbow from the surgery, but those are still continuing to recede day by day, little by little.

Each day brings new milestones of things I can do again without pain.  Once I had the splint off of my arm, it was a lot easier to do things like get dressed and type and feed myself.  Lately, it's becoming easier to wash my hair and brush my teeth--things that I just did without even thinking about them in the past.   Today, I was able to comb my hair with my right hand without any pain.  There was stiffness in my elbow, but no pain.

Hooray for being able to take pride in the small things again!  Hooray for tiny bits of progress, even if the progress is painful at times!  Hooray for baby steps towards getting back to normal!