Better, slowly but surely

I'm pretty much done with the little white pills. Maybe one or two every day or so now. Still have some others that I take because the need for them isn't gone. "Pain free" most of the time. Yeah there's some persistent aches but they can be tolerated without chemical intervention.

Now it's things that aren't back to working right that are the focus. The right hand still is not closing all the way or able to make a tight grip. It closes most of the way, just a last tiny fraction to go and there's something that prevents closing the gap. It doesn't have much of a grip though. Sometimes I can twist the cap off a soda bottle, most of the time the left hand is needed.

The right side of my face is getting some motion back. My lips can be pursed enough now that if I'm careful and sip slowly nothing spills while drinking from a glass. And if I concentrate on it I can move some muscles a tiny bit on the right side of my face. At last week's doctor visit they told me that a nerve comes out of the skull in the right temporal lobe, the side of my head that smacked the road, that controls motion in the right side of the face. Just have to wait and see how much motion is recovered. Getting some independent motion back is a good indication that more might return.

My right eye still doesn't focus correctly most of the of the time. But the instances when it does focus are occurring more frequently.

Bed spins and chair spins are the biggest inconvenience now. Vertigo has been a problem since crashing and I've been unsteady on my feet at times. For the most part that's abated except in some specific circumstances. Sitting down in a low chair, getting up from a low chair, laying down in bed and rolling from my side to my back in bed can all cause the room to spin and usually do. The speed and duration of the spin have all been decreasing. I'm expecting the symptom to stop eventually just don't know when.

Have more doctor follow ups on the calendar. The next visit is supposed to involve some neurological testing. Supposedly they'll make a determination about physical or occupational therapy that might be needed before returning to work. There's even a possibility they might project a return to work date.

It's been great sitting around having nothing to do and no responsibility while recovering. But now I feel well enough that I'm definitely getting restless and bored. I don't know what the doctor's benchmark will be for return to work but I hope I'm there.