To change the subject, it occurs to me that instead of making a "to do' list, I should make a 'done' list. This solves the problem of completed onerous tasks that didn't make it to the list so can't be ticked off without cheating. I could look at the list with a vague- to -major sense of achievement rather than screw up the list and start again. Also it saves paper so better for the environment.
@Lizzie27 it is indeed good news. Now she just has to build her confidence getting up and down stairs and generally in using the crutches. The frame is obviously more stable but very difficult to manoeuver. She is getting there, and actually doing so more quickly than expected.
@KT53, I think I'd be terrified of trying to climb up and down stairs on crutches so your wife has my sympathy. As you say, it's a matter of confidence. I'm managing with a stick in one hand and hauling myself up on the handrail with the other. If I remember rightly after my son's car accident, when he smashed his leg/knee and was in a full leg plaster, he managed the very steep stairs by coming down on his backside. I stood at the bottom watching him, holding my breath.
I remember being told not to rely on the frame, but to use it to steady myself. To help me walk normally. I found it often got in the way, but couldn't have done without it.
I wish your wife all the best in this stage of recovery. I hated the stigma of being seen with the frame, but it was definitely safer than using crutches. If she can master the crutches, she's a better person than I am. I had to traverse the stairs on my backside!!
My daughter had her leg in plaster for 6 months, she came down the stairs on her bottom. I was less scared than when she tried the crutches.. she did go up them on the crutches but seemed to manage better going up than down.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I think that's standard procedure @Hostafan1. They made OH do that the morning after his hip op on the hospital stairs - I couldn't bear to watch!
Fortunately we only have three stairs (soon to be 4 shallower ones) up to the landing (split level house). The loft office/2nd sitting room is accessed by stairs but we don't 'need' to get up there.
A fox had something in its mouth a few gardens away . Curious, I got the binoculars out. The foxes here must be extremely well fed. A young fox was lying cat- like on the grass, playing with a rat.it would wait for it to recover and run and it would idly flick it back between its paws. I didn't realise that foxes would tease their prey as cats do. A while later, I looked out and two foxes were sharing cold rat picnic.
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I could look at the list with a vague- to -major sense of achievement rather than screw up the list and start again. Also it saves paper so better for the environment.
If I remember rightly after my son's car accident, when he smashed his leg/knee and was in a full leg plaster, he managed the very steep stairs by coming down on his backside. I stood at the bottom watching him, holding my breath.
I wish your wife all the best in this stage of recovery. I hated the stigma of being seen with the frame, but it was definitely safer than using crutches. If she can master the crutches, she's a better person than I am. I had to traverse the stairs on my backside!!
Fortunately we only have three stairs (soon to be 4 shallower ones) up to the landing (split level house). The loft office/2nd sitting room is accessed by stairs but we don't 'need' to get up there.