Status report
Mar. 22nd, 2011 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumStatus report: My ankle.
The cast came off five weeks ago yesterday. I was supposed to wear the Aircast for a month. I am not so patient as that, and it was borking my knees. So after about a week I started to move about the house with nothing but crutches. That's also about the time I sent the rented kneelchair back.
As of three weeks ago I was pretty much getting about the house with crutches, or not. Somewhere in there I stopped using the aircast, except on occaision. Two weeks ago I moved to a single crutch. Last week I moved the crutch to the off side.
Saturday I went out without the crutch at all.
This is not to say the ankle is "fixed". It's better. I had to don the aircast last week, and I did something in the past few days which has upped the level of ache, but the crutches are now with the cast, a fallback, not a mainstay.
But I did do the big thing today. I just got back from about 3/4s of a mile on the Seca (the smaller, more to the point, lighter bike). I have new boots (specific to motorcycling) which zip up the side. They wouldn't have prevented the break I had, but they are easier to get on and off. Had I been wearing my usual boots on Jan. 17th, I'd have needed to cut them off.
Downsides. I don't walk the same as I did nine weeks ago. I have a hitch, and my movement is less symmetrically aligned. That will go away as the atrophy/wasting are corrected. I suspect a fading in the pain will also affect that. My knees are a bit stiff. I have much less wind. I don't even want to think about running.
I am not truly self-mobile. I don't think I have, at present, more than about 10 miles of radius before the possible side effects (vibration, fatigue, tenderness from the operation of the rear brake) combine to make it too far to travel.
But it does mean I am not dependent on a single bus, which run all of once an house, and stops at 7 p.m. on the weekends, if I need to do something.
The cast came off five weeks ago yesterday. I was supposed to wear the Aircast for a month. I am not so patient as that, and it was borking my knees. So after about a week I started to move about the house with nothing but crutches. That's also about the time I sent the rented kneelchair back.
As of three weeks ago I was pretty much getting about the house with crutches, or not. Somewhere in there I stopped using the aircast, except on occaision. Two weeks ago I moved to a single crutch. Last week I moved the crutch to the off side.
Saturday I went out without the crutch at all.
This is not to say the ankle is "fixed". It's better. I had to don the aircast last week, and I did something in the past few days which has upped the level of ache, but the crutches are now with the cast, a fallback, not a mainstay.
But I did do the big thing today. I just got back from about 3/4s of a mile on the Seca (the smaller, more to the point, lighter bike). I have new boots (specific to motorcycling) which zip up the side. They wouldn't have prevented the break I had, but they are easier to get on and off. Had I been wearing my usual boots on Jan. 17th, I'd have needed to cut them off.
Downsides. I don't walk the same as I did nine weeks ago. I have a hitch, and my movement is less symmetrically aligned. That will go away as the atrophy/wasting are corrected. I suspect a fading in the pain will also affect that. My knees are a bit stiff. I have much less wind. I don't even want to think about running.
I am not truly self-mobile. I don't think I have, at present, more than about 10 miles of radius before the possible side effects (vibration, fatigue, tenderness from the operation of the rear brake) combine to make it too far to travel.
But it does mean I am not dependent on a single bus, which run all of once an house, and stops at 7 p.m. on the weekends, if I need to do something.
