Physical Therapy and Paley's Place

With Maxine's new injury comes physical therapy. We really wanted to get it started as soon as possible to mitigate against any future problems in the way the bone heals (it isn't being immobilized) and future arm mobility. So, we took the first available physical therapy session, which was...

Tuesday at 7:30AM.

The therapist showed Maxine a number of exercises to do, mostly designed at this stage to keep her in motion. One of the things that is most difficult about this is just how frustrating it is to have to do exercises, which hurt, just to keep the shoulder from getting worse. Not fair. And, in fact, the doctor does not want her putting any weight at all on her left arm for the next 6 weeks. Can't carry anything. Doing 'some' emails is allowed, but not spending too much time online. In other words, sit in a chair and read or watch movies...

As we're still winding down our stay here in Portland, we went out for one last 'nice' dinner, to Paley's Place (http://www.paleysplace.net/). The food was fine, but not inspired. And, the place was probably just a bit too busy for the servers to pay attention to customers. But, I had the best mint chocolate chip ice cream I've ever had -- you could taste the flavor of real mint leaves in it.