Everything To Live For: The Inspirational Story Of Turia Pitt - Plot & Excerpts
I was in a lot of pain and taking four different kinds of prescription painkillers. Michael used to encourage me to get up and walk around and I’d have a big whinge because it hurt. He also made me go for walks before physio, which I dreaded because I was so stiff. Calcium builds up in the joints of people with severe burns and that makes it difficult to flex our joints. So I couldn’t bend my elbow to scratch myself or shower myself. The scar tissue also limited my movements. But I set myself milestones. One was to be able to touch my face with my both hands. Because I had left rehab early I was initially going to physio each day for an hour and a half. Janine was terrific; she would work with me doing passive, gentle stretching to try to get some movement back so I could gradually start to do a few things unaided. Physio was painful and I had to have a lot of painkillers to get me through a session with Janine. When I first started going to Janine’s I had a lot of open wounds that were slow to heal.
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