tbatt9
junior member
Krista, I laughed out loud when I saw your post as we tried to get him to use that exact walker. His grandmother was visiting us from Maine and she uses one. She wanted to leave it for him to use and replace hers when she got home but being the stubborn prideful teen he is he absolutely refused. It would have been the perfect solution but what can you do, as being 16 now he knows all things and Dad is an idiot.
As far as the backpack goes its not so much the books as thankfully they use digital books and an IPad for most of his classes. But they expect him to keep these ridiculous huge binders full of class notes. We are going to significantly lighten his load by consolidating and eliminating as much as he can which should help some.
His recovery has been a real day to day thing. Thursday he's barely able to get there and is utterly sore and miserable. Yesterday much better, even able to go out to dinner with just cane and fished a little in back yard, even took few steps without walker or cane. Then slept poorly and is sore and fatigued today.
We need to figure out how to best manage his pain meds at this point. We have been trying to stop the oxycodone, which obviously contributes to his pain levels going up and down. We have been experimenting with substituting the narcotics with Tylenol PM (which is just 500mg Tylenol + 25 mg Benadryl). Seemed to help a little the first night but now with his increased activities it just wasn't enough to let him sleep through the night last night so now because he was asking for it I let him take an oxycodone and go back to bed. I know everyone is different but I hoped he wouldn't need the narcotics at this point. Maybe we go back to letting him take it at bedtime to help him sleep until he is able to walk unassisted in a few more weeks. Hopefully that wont make him too lethargic to get through his day.
As far as the backpack goes its not so much the books as thankfully they use digital books and an IPad for most of his classes. But they expect him to keep these ridiculous huge binders full of class notes. We are going to significantly lighten his load by consolidating and eliminating as much as he can which should help some.
His recovery has been a real day to day thing. Thursday he's barely able to get there and is utterly sore and miserable. Yesterday much better, even able to go out to dinner with just cane and fished a little in back yard, even took few steps without walker or cane. Then slept poorly and is sore and fatigued today.
We need to figure out how to best manage his pain meds at this point. We have been trying to stop the oxycodone, which obviously contributes to his pain levels going up and down. We have been experimenting with substituting the narcotics with Tylenol PM (which is just 500mg Tylenol + 25 mg Benadryl). Seemed to help a little the first night but now with his increased activities it just wasn't enough to let him sleep through the night last night so now because he was asking for it I let him take an oxycodone and go back to bed. I know everyone is different but I hoped he wouldn't need the narcotics at this point. Maybe we go back to letting him take it at bedtime to help him sleep until he is able to walk unassisted in a few more weeks. Hopefully that wont make him too lethargic to get through his day.