The View From Here - Various thoughts and travels
I have walked this hallway many many times with the walker. Today I did the full length of the hallway and back with crutches for the first time. With a bit of tromping around my unit added in I figure I did a total of two hundred feet for the day. My goal was to get using crutches before the end of January.
I have not used the crutches for about a week. I have not done a lot of anything for about a week. Somehow I hurt myself and I have been taking it easy dealing with some knee and leg pain. The pain was bad enough that I had to resort to taking a few of my prescription painkillers. Things have got better yesterday and I am slowly ramping up the exercise. There are times during my recovery where your body tells you to take a break. I might have done too much too soon.
Today is another day. Back at it.
Bought some crutches. I managed to walk about five feet with them. That was damn hard.
January 5 I was able to put on socks for the first time since the accident on February 16, 2024. January 12 I was able to do it for the second time.
I did not bother trying to do it for myself for a week. After I did it the first time I got really apprehensive that I might not be able to do it again. Yesterday I got up the nerve to try it and it was kind of easy. Strange the things you get hung up on.
Another reason I left it was that I am still wearing compression stockings with no toe. Health care is trying to arrange compression socks. The stockings are a pain to get socks over them. Last week I gave myself a break from wearing them. I did the same yesterday.
I was told I might have to wear them for the rest of my life. I am hoping eventually I do not have to do it.
About a month ago I bought a sock aid, a device to help you put on your socks. I have not used it. I bought it to remind me to keep working away and get to the point where I no longer needed an assist. I did not want to accept things, I want to get back as much as possible to where I was before the accident.
Yesterday with multiple trips over the course of the day walking the halls and the underground parkade I managed to walk with the walker just over a mile for the first time in many months. The endeavour was spaced out over ten hours. I will pay for pushing it as it was about one thousand feet more than what I have done. I will spend the next few days recovering from the stiffness and the aches. I had to know if I could do it.
For the first time since February 16, 2024 (the date of the accident) I managed to put on a pair of socks. Granted they were loose socks and it was a struggle bending and hurt but I did it.
