The 'test' in hospital of ability to get up and down stairs on crutches was a flight of 3 steps according to my wife. When I had my hip replacement, on the NHS but in a private hospital, was a full flight.
My wife is finding coming down much easier (comparative term) than going up. I stand a couple of steps behind her when she's going up and a couple in front when coming down, and she holds the banister handrail with one hand and puts the weight through the crutch on the other arm. The major problem on our stairs is the 90 degree turn at the top which consists of a fan of 3 steps. She manages that surprisingly well. In general she uses crutches in preference to the frame because the are so much easier to work with.
Brighton Pride is on today. The lovely train folk have closed Brighton Station for the day as " they can't cope with the numbers expected " Words fail me
Damned if they do and damned if they don’t @Hostafan1 … can you imagine the uproar if they didn’t cope and there was an accident … a crowd crush on a station platform 😱 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64003455
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Damned if they do and damned if they don’t @Hostafan1 … can you imagine the uproar if they didn’t cope and there was an accident … a crowd crush on a station platform 😱 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64003455
they've closed the station " due to industrial action " Staff are refusing to work overtime, which tells me they just don't have enough staff, ever , and rely on staff working overtime.
@KT53 no walker here and no lesson on stairs with crutches but that's OK as I had that lesson in 2013 when I had both feet re-arranged. Nearly 5 weeks in now and I can do everything round the house and garden without crutches but take one for stability when out and about.
Don't want to be bowled over in the street or supermarket aisles. Amazing how many people don't look where they're going tho and what's coming at 'em.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Aaargh! All the traffic lights out at the notorious Thickthorn roundabout at the top of the A11 just down the road from here … turning right to get to the farm shop took some time and was a bit hairy! 😱
Forty minutes later still no sign of any Highway’s police or anything and no warnings on the traffic news so I’ve reported it on the National Highways website … it looks as if my report was the first … what’s wrong with folk? How are they supposed to know unless drivers tell them … I don’t suppose they employ psychic mediums 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh dear Dove, that sounds like one gigantic traffic jam busy building up. I suppose many drivers think somebody else has reported it so they don't bother.
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Words fail me
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64003455
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Staff are refusing to work overtime, which tells me they just don't have enough staff, ever , and rely on staff working overtime.
Don't want to be bowled over in the street or supermarket aisles. Amazing how many people don't look where they're going tho and what's coming at 'em.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.