I got to my first lesson this morning, my student was late, and the snow was piled up against the hangar doors. After getting my feet wet sinking through the snow getting to the hangar door, I preflighted for the other guy then shoveled out the hangar, and then what we tried to do in the air we couldn't really accomplish that well because of an equipment glitch. We gave it the ole college try and worked more on procedures than actual tracking, so it wasn't a total loss. Didn't have time to hit lunch, and my next lesson was in a different airplane, and guess what? Another shoveling job. Unfortunately my back and arms are fine as long as I'm careful with certain motions/directions, so I didn't even have an excuse to not do it. ;)
Kaylee had play practice tonight, and had a great time. They did a run through of the play, and she came home bouncy and pleased, as always. Afterwards I ran her through Culvers for some ice cream, so I'm sure she'll get even more sleep now, huh?
I talked to the PT and sports medicine doc about my fall and re-injury, and they both said that the stretching and exercises I'd been doing kept it from being too traumatic, and that if I was able to stop my face from bouncing off the floor, I must have stopped my fall somewhat, and that I was really lucky, because the head injury would have been bad. I told them I didn't really stop the fall, but my chest kept me from smacking my forehead on the floor. See, being not flat has its advantages! ;) They said that getting back to my new 'normal' within a couple days shows that I'd been working at it, and that the "trembly" feeling I had was from neck/spinal trauma, and that it was obviously a good thing that went away fast. I have some new exercises and stretches to work on--they said the last 10% that I'm having trouble with is the hardest to overcome because of the location of the muscles back there and that it will just take time and continued effort. This is the longest I've continued on any specific exercise routine in my life. When it's important to you to not be a weakling invalid, you do what you gotta do.
I got an email today about someone who said that they have an SNJ (T-6) at a museum in Indiana and one near term need they have is T-6 pilots that will help keep this aircraft flying regularly. He said they have two local T-6 pilot/owners, but both are approaching 70 years old and the museum board would like to locate some younger T-6 pilots, or someone to train younger T-6 pilots, and they were sent to me. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with T-6 pilots approaching 70 years old, since I know of one or two not that far away from approaching 70 that can kick my butt in the plane. lol Anyway, I'm waiting to hear from the museum people as to what exactly they're looking for and what it would cost. I'm plenty busy already, I don't exactly have the discretionary funds to do much at my cost down there, and the museum isn't right in my back yard, so...while I'd like to help them out, because, let's face it, there really aren't people in the existing T-6 community who will, it will just depend on what they're looking for and whether I can. It's kind of neat that I was contacted at all, though.
Suppose I'd better get to bed early and try to get to sleep. Nice 5:30 a.m. wake-up for me tomorrow...
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