Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
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It gets easier. WAY easier. Once you get the muscle memory built you'll be OK.
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@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Plz tell me using crutches gets easier.
The times I've used them it's only taken me a day or so to adjust to them.
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@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Plz tell me using crutches gets easier.
It does. Make friends with all kinds of padding to find the ones that don't rub your pits raw.
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@greenflashlight said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Plz tell me using crutches gets easier.
It does. Make friends with all kinds of padding to find the ones that don't rub your pits raw.
Only crutch I've ever used look like this.
Though the ones I get from the hospital usually come with clip on spikes at the bottom for outdoor use. I have never found them hard to use but whenever I've been injured and at home I tend to end up just hoping around and bracing the walls instead.
Edit:
After doing some basic internet research, it appears there's two major types of crutches. Forearm crutch (depicted) and underarm crutch, the forearm crutch is supposedly better in almost every measurable way and the default crutch in most of the world except the US where hospitals give out the underarm crutch because of what appears to be cultural inertia.If you have an underarm crutch and find it uncomfortable or hard to walk with, try to find a forearm crutch and see if you find it easier.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
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@groth Wait, people still use underarm crutches? What?
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@grayson said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@groth Wait, people still use underarm crutches? What?
We still use Imperial measurements too.
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The doctor said with the new boot that I can move away from the crutches. It hurts more to walk without then but still less then my endo hurts so I'll just deal.
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My rehab has added a new exercise to the routine. I don't know the name of the machine I'm using, but I call it the pap smear machine because even though I'm seated and upright that's what I think of any time my feet are in stirrups that spread my legs. Anyway, the point of the machine is to bring your knees together against the resistance of the weights tied to the stirrups. You know the one.
I am dipping into my squirrel-stash of prescription painkillers today because Jesus fuck, my groin.* It's like someone's tightening a winch in my thigh muscles. You should have seen the undignified waddle-lurch I had to do just to get downstairs today.
Take good care of your body, kids. Maintenance is boring but it's so much easier than repair is.
*this sentence contains one of the most important commas I have ever used
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@greenflashlight said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Jesus fuck, my groin.**this sentence contains one of the most important commas I have ever used
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I forgot how constipated you can get, spending two days in bed. Oof.
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Dear doctor's offices, please update your information on Google so I can quit calling fax numbers thinking they're phone numbers. Fucking hell.
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Dr Doctor's office.
Please stop telling me I have to be there 15 minutes early, if the person I am SEEING isn't even in the building.
Legit. They had to tell me she was running late and wasn't even there yet.
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@macha So, technically, the 15 minutes early is if you need to fill out new patient paperwork, update your medical coverage, etc. What they NEED to do, is start asking those questions when they set the appointment and follow it up with IF any of these changes occur prior to your appointment OR you are a new patient, please arrive 15 minutes early to allow time prior to your appointment for us to add you into the system/update your information.
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@too-old-for-this Yeah, I do all that stuff online, pre appt. because they...ask me to?
It's still annoying AF when the person you're there to see isn't even in the BUILDING at the time of your appt.
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@macha Agreed! And yes, the early arrival is a leftover from pre-internet days where you had to go in and fill out paper forms everywhere. XD
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My elder brother is a quadriplegic, going on 16 years or so now. He use to be my favorite person in the world, but he's slowly becoming that family member that you grit your teeth at and pick which battles you'll fight against their BS.
He gets especially nasty when talking about people who need government help. Housing/food/medical care, etc. As far as he's concerned they're a bunch of fraudsters.
What kills me most about the end is that HE doesn't have to work for anything. His housing, food, medical supplies, etc, it's all paid for by various government agencies. But because other people have "working" bodies then they should be able to get by without help. Only people with HIS level of difficulty should receive any help.
I'm happy to help and take care of him, but I'm also very much looking forward to going home and not having to grit my teeth/fight the urge to leave him hanging in a transfer between bed and chair utterly helpless after he's said something particularly bigoted, racist, anything-phobic or just generally hatetful.
#rant
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Right there with you with my cousin hawking essential oil blends for fighting the covid outbreak that put most of her family in the icu at some point, and shitting on the medical staff that was caring for them as not being attentive enough.
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“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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Getting to this exhausted burn out phase in pandemic era nursing where the adrenal rush is not there any more and it just feels like this never ending marathon that never ends, but just goes on with an ever increasing steeper incline.
The nursing/nursing aid shortage is worse than ever and about to get much worse with winter, holidays, covid and the vaccine mandate. It worse than it was last winter by far and not even winter yet.
And I am so super fatigued and don't have the burst of, emerency energy zoomzoom that I did last winter. Many nurses I work with and know feel the same. It is getting harder and harder to continue at this pace. Tempers are short and we are stressed.
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@kk said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
The nursing/nursing aid shortage is worse than ever and about to get much worse with winter, holidays, covid and the vaccine mandate. It worse than it was last winter by far and not even winter yet.
You know those cardboard signs people put in the grass by the sidewalk that have a phone number you can call to sell you car for cash NOW! or liquidate your home or just get a job the sign doesn't describe? The nursing homes near me are putting up those kinds of signs.
