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Posted 2015-02-19T18:06:13Z

Penguin Wings

Last week I was thinking how I didn't seem to have any new developments to share here, and I was a little disheartened. I want to tell you all what great progress I'm making, but sometimes I go long stretches with no visible progress. And that's okay. Monday, a friend came over to have tea, and she shared an anecdote about a someone who was practicing lifting a weight with a single finger every day for weeks and couldn't ever get more than a dozen or so reps until one day he suddenly was able to get over thirty. We talked about how this fit with my recovery as I still have to faithfully go through the motions of my therapies and daily routine consistently hoping for more but occasionally stuck in a run of no improvements. [...]