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Get well soon, Kitty. PT can be exhausting but it's worth it. I'm glad your kitty cat is doing well with your neighbour.

I guess you had PT too, this is my second time.

Get well soon Kitty!

Thanks, I like the kitty picture.

Yes, I've had lots of it. I needed two years of PT after a surgical error. Then after my stroke I had inpatient therapy and home therapy, followed by a stroke rehabilitation day program at the hospital with PT, OT, Speech and VRT three days a week, for over a year. Last year I broke my left foot twice in a row and went to PT for that, too. I used a rollator walker for the first 18 months after my stroke. Now I can manage with just a cane if it's a long walk outdoors. I don't need any assistive devices at home any more. I really hope you will recover quickly. Do you have any idea when you might be released from the hospital?

I must have shredded 5000 pages. With the shredder overheating and jamming every ten minutes. It wasn't fun but I'm very happy now.

I've got a big bulging sack full of shreddables, will you do it for me? I hope you shredded just what needed to be shredded and nothing else.

That's my worry. I hope so! After the first hour I was ruthless and killed nearly everything. It was all triggers that had been buried in boxes inside boxes inside boxes.

^^^boxes inside boxes, eh? sounds like a right matryoshka mess to me must feel good to be free of it.

It was a lead weight emotionally. I feel amazing to have a) confronted b) read c) removed nearly all of it.



I'll shred yours, if you'd like. I'm a pro now. lol

gosh, that hadda be at least a year's worth of reading in less than a year's time, no?

I didn't have to read it carefully. I just had to "skim and think" about whether to keep each page. It was very nice to let most of it go.

are you on the neater side, or the messier side, in general?

I'm on the "throw away everything I own" side. I purge a lot every few months because it feels good to make problems (messes) vanish. Wouldn't it be nice if this metaphor could work in real life? I try not to own or keep much stuff (except for paper, which clearly accumulated into a nearly insurmountable problem because it was so overwhelming). The paper was hidden from view, so my home appeared tidy all along, but I don't like to do the actual scrubbing and polishing of things. Scrubbing is much more annoying than decluttering, although I do it as needed.

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seemingly incurable slob, not even uncle sam's army could make me into a tidy person.

kill a cute little mouse [and flush it down the toilet] to keep your house hygienic
or
let it live but put it in a cage
or
release it somewhere miles from your home so it won't be tempted to re-enter?

My cats would happily oblige me with a), although c) would be more ideal.

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