Hi guys....yes I did try the cane last week, and was a bit dismayed that I was a lot more wobbly than with the single crutch. I realised I needed a lot more weight-bearing support than I thought I did, so gave up for a few days. But I tried again today (just in case, didn't actually feel any stronger) and yippee I'm not nearly as wobbly....will stick to round the house at the moment, no 10 mile hikes, but I can work with that. My other 'milestone' is that I can almost go upstairs 'normally' ie instead of crutch and good leg, crutch and good leg etc I can do alternate legs (still using the crutch) so that also points to op leg being a bit stronger. My next goal is to use the loo without the looframe around it (my dad is coming over in about 10 days and will be sharing my bathroom....but he's fitter than I am and might not want to share the frame!) At the moment I could do with something to push down on with my right arm(op side) and can't think of anything I could use temporarily between the loo and the wall (about 12" gap) so if anyone has a bright idea?
The obvious thing is to strengthen my right thigh and bum muscles, but, as we know, you can't do these things to order
AJ....does your mattress have a memory foam top? My daughter's OT told her to avoid mf as it makes you hot and she has difficulty regulating her body temperature. I bought a new bed 6 mths ago, not realising it has a built-in mf topper, and I do find it pretty warm. Not sure what you can do about it tho
. I stopped taking the zopiclone (sleeping tablet) about 4 nights ago and all went well, so I got a bit carried away and decided to drop one of the 2 tramadols too, as I'm not having much pain. I didn't have the tramadol last night and had a miserable sleepless night...not because of my hip but for some reason, my back was aching like mad no matter how high/low my pillows were, and where the pillows further down the bed were.....made me wonder if the tramadol was also dealing with the achey back thing too, so tonight will take the tramadol and maybe see how I go without the morning one instead. Wouldn't it be good if there was one blueprint for everyone, so that we didn't have to do all this guesswork
Hope you all have a lovely weekend and everyone's recovery is still going well......can't believe it's 4 weeks today since I was lying on that extremely narrow operating table and wondering if I could make a run for it....doesn't time fly when you're enjoying yourself