Thursday, January 16, 2025

Failure of my medical team to get my good long sleeve arm buttoned

 With zero recovery of my left hand/fingers I can't button my right arm sleeve. This then requires massive amounts of concentration when reaching for food when dining to prevent the sleeve from dragging through the food. I sometimes can button the sleeve before putting it on, but the tightness of getting my hand thru will tell me if it's possible to remove it without ripping the button off. 

My OT gave me no interventions to bring back my fingers. All I got was: 'At eight weeks, research shows little chance of getting finger mobility back if there isn't movement at eight weeks'. That is a failure mindset, it should have triggered calls to stroke leadership to get research going that delivers finger recovery!

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