Tolerable

My physical therapist keeps asking me one question, and it’s the same one your business needs you to answer.

I am rebuilding a shoulder.

Every few weeks my arm reaches a place it could not reach before, some new inch of range that used to be a wall. Or instant tears.

And every time we get there, my physical therapist asks me the same thing.

Not "does it hurt." Not "are you okay."

But, "is this tolerable?"

The first dozen times I just answered. Yes.

Mostly.

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