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I woke up very late yesterday and then did fewer of these stretches and exercises than usual.
Today, however, I was up at 8 (which is in the range of my current "normal" pattern), sat with my anti-SAD light (which tends not to happen if I sleep late), and have done wrist stretches and exercises.
I am doing well enough that it may be time to stop, or at least pause, the OT visits:
After several days of doing only range-of-motion for the wrist rotating exercise, I used the one-pound weight again on Thursday, which felt like a little bit of a strain; range-of-motion only yesterday; and about a dozen repetitions with the one-pound weight this morning. (I did count them, and forgot the number almost immediately.)
The overhand and underhand stretches/strengthening, I've been doing at 2 pounds, and was up to 20 underhand and I think 17 overhand. Since I'm doing these exercises as a group, I tend to have the energy for more of whichever I do first, so I'm trying to vary it. Today it was rotate, underhand, overhand.
It has also been a few days since I used the brace on the right wrist at all, though I'm carrying it with me if I go out for longer than a walk to the supermarket, and having it in reach when I sleep.
I am still sleeping with the other wrist braced and propped up, because leaving that off for more than a couple of days leads to wrist or elbow pain. Sleeping with both wrists in those braces is like sleeping with fingerless gloves on, and can be warm enough to make it hard for me to fall asleep, even naked and without even a sheet to cover me. (Adrian's room is cooler, so sleeping with both braces on when I'm in that bedroom hasn't been a problem.
Today, however, I was up at 8 (which is in the range of my current "normal" pattern), sat with my anti-SAD light (which tends not to happen if I sleep late), and have done wrist stretches and exercises.
I am doing well enough that it may be time to stop, or at least pause, the OT visits:
After several days of doing only range-of-motion for the wrist rotating exercise, I used the one-pound weight again on Thursday, which felt like a little bit of a strain; range-of-motion only yesterday; and about a dozen repetitions with the one-pound weight this morning. (I did count them, and forgot the number almost immediately.)
The overhand and underhand stretches/strengthening, I've been doing at 2 pounds, and was up to 20 underhand and I think 17 overhand. Since I'm doing these exercises as a group, I tend to have the energy for more of whichever I do first, so I'm trying to vary it. Today it was rotate, underhand, overhand.
It has also been a few days since I used the brace on the right wrist at all, though I'm carrying it with me if I go out for longer than a walk to the supermarket, and having it in reach when I sleep.
I am still sleeping with the other wrist braced and propped up, because leaving that off for more than a couple of days leads to wrist or elbow pain. Sleeping with both wrists in those braces is like sleeping with fingerless gloves on, and can be warm enough to make it hard for me to fall asleep, even naked and without even a sheet to cover me. (Adrian's room is cooler, so sleeping with both braces on when I'm in that bedroom hasn't been a problem.