Well that's me off my bike for a while

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Well physio were not overly impressed. Didn't pass with fitting colours or anything like that. She even brought up the subject of us having to move house. something I'm trying to put off until we know how much I'm will or won't recovery from here.

I don't think she thinks I'm going to get much better than I am more from a leg strength point of view and I've just got to keep pushing myself and trying. Sadly she bringing me a walking frame to try out something I have been trying really hard to avoid! But she happy I'm getting out of the bike, not happy with my walking even with crutches, didn't even try without. Getting something to raise the height of the toilet seat but that is about as much help as she can give in this house sadly.
She's not particularly happy I'm upstairs alone all day, but understands I can't do anything else about it. Glad I'm out for a walk in the evening with my husband...
Gave me some pointers/things to make my new consultant aware of when I see him: bits I wasn't aware of.

What else? MRI rang to give me an appointment for Thursday, there's just enough time for me to get a bike ride in in the morning before the ambulance picks me up, just... If I got out early...

And I nearly managed 10km today but it was only because it literally is all downhill on the way home! It took me an hour and I needed a dose of morphine & paracetamol when I got back. Still I haven't seen Whitegate station in a long time and the light was lovely today!

 

[summerdays]

You are getting further even with a short time, you seem to be doing well on the trike.

Try the walking frame, you could use it when you are feeling more tired, and if it helped to prevent another fall wouldn't it be worth it. You have shown that you have determination, so let it help you now and then see if you need it less in the future?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

You are getting further even with a short time, you seem to be doing well on the trike.

Try the walking frame, you could use it when you are feeling more tired, and if it helped to prevent another fall wouldn't it be worth it. You have shown that you have determination, so let it help you now and then see if you need it less in the future?

I'm just not certain at 42 I want to be using a walking frame of all things.

I have more or less accepted that if I can ever sit again anything like the shipping or going around town with my husband is going to need a wheelchair, but a walking frame just days 84 to me not 42

 

[summerdays]

I'm just not certain at 42 I want to be using a walking frame of all things.

I have more or less accepted that if I can ever sit again anything like the shipping or going around town with my husband is going to need a wheelchair, but a walking frame just days 84 to me not 42

I thought that shopping trollies said the same thing, then a friend got one, and I realised it was just useful but also slightly updated too. I haven't got one myself, but I did get given a vest for my 40th by the same friend and I admit I am converted in winter! (I'd spent the previous years mocking her).

 

[raleighnut]

When I came out of hospital after breaking my femur I had 2 walking frames (1 for upstairs and one for downstairs/outside), a raised toilet thingy, a commode , 1 crutch (failed the 2 crutch test in hospital but I was wiped out on Morphine/Codeine at the time yet passed the 1 crutch and a handrail 'hop' up stairs) and a wash stool and I had to hire my own wheelchair from the Red Cross for 10 weeks. Still on 1 crutch after 16 months
BTW I was determined never to use the commode and it went back still unwrapped, but the frames were a godsend for getting round the house.

 

[Scoosh]

If the walking frame is a tool for getting you more mobile (just for now) until you get sufficient balance and strength not to need it, I'd say Go for it … and not too many people will see it !

We won't tell !

 

[Katherine]

Embrace the walking frame! Customise it with your own style - tie stuff to it, decorate it, have fun.

 

[Scoosh]

Pink ribbons ???
Go-Faster stripes ?
Slick tyres ?
Twist-grip throttle ?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Pink ribbons ???
Go-Faster stripes ?
Slick tyres ?
Twist-grip throttle ?

You forgot the reflective tape! My crutches are going to be getting some... Fed up of not being seen in the dark when I go for my walk in the evening. Mind you we change the clocks soon don't we?

When I came out of hospital after breaking my femur I had 2 walking frames (1 for upstairs and one for downstairs/outside), a raised toilet thingy, a commode , 1 crutch (failed the 2 crutch test in hospital but I was wiped out on Morphine/Codeine at the time yet passed the 1 crutch and a handrail 'hop' up stairs) and a wash stool and I had to hire my own wheelchair from the Red Cross for 10 weeks. Still on 1 crutch after 16 months
BTW I was determined never to use the commode and it went back still unwrapped, but the frames were a godsend for getting round the house.

I'm still on the morphine/codeine/paracetamol/pregabalin combination 3 months after my op. Can't use 1 crutch by itself it hurts me too much and salt physio have started there is nothing they can do for my stairs. It already has as many handrails as it can have. The wheelchair won't come into play until I can sit.

If the walking frame is a tool for getting you more mobile (just for now) until you get sufficient balance and strength not to need it, I'd say Go for it … and not too many people will see it !

We won't tell !

It's not sounding like anyone expects me to recover much passed where I am now tbh Scoosh. There is definite paralysis present in both legs. and my left leg is struggling to be the dominant leg. It just can't cope with it. Something I will probably have to accept. But physiologically if they can resolve the sitting issue, I can cope with a wheelchair for longer distance use , it would leave me in a significantly better position than I am now with even the potential to work again which right now I don't have.

We shall have to see what my new consultant says. And today I need to write down a whole load of things like where the pain is, symptoms, questions etc.

 

[Scoosh]

Aye - but you are a fighter @SatNavSaysStraightOn and you still want to get out and about and explore !

"CC's Miss* Inspiration"
or "Miss* Inspiration CC"





*Mrs is also permissable

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Fighting is all I have left! seems I am good at it!

 

[Scoosh]

Scary MICC* !!!

*see title above

 

[cosmicbike]

Having just updated mine, I wonder if you keep a diary @SatNavSaysStraightOn ? Not so much a cornfalkes for breakfast type, but more a record of what things felt like, pain relief, sleep pattern and so forth?
Mines running to many pages now, but it's useful to look back on when I get certain pains. This 5th episode started with hip and back pains, which I thought were new. My long suffering wife (and my best fried at that) said I'd had it before, and as ever was correct. It's also interesting to help me manage the recovery. I went back to work 6 weeks after my first encounter with this affliction 2 years ago, too quickly as it turns out since within weeks I was in hospital again. After episode 2 I was off for 16 weeks, then 10 after episode 3. Episode 4 was 8 weeks and I'm I in number 5 at the moment!
Anyway, my little diary tells me that the paranoia, crying, anxiety and jitters are all normal, and were the same last time. Don't make it any easier though

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It is strange you say that, but I actually started one on Monday.
I have also found and printed off a good diagram of the spine and pelvis so I can more clearly identify and draw on where the pain actually is. Plus another that includes the legs, so I can map that pain as well, but that one is pretty constant.

 

[Pale Rider]

I had a raised toilet seat after my hip replacement three years ago.

Very comfy, in fact so comfy I still have it, even though I can now manage a normal height toilet.

Only downside is the inability to put the lid down.

You only realise how much a toilet lid traps smells until you can't use one.