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| Have you forgotten something? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 06/13/2012, 3:07am PDT | ||||
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Oom Shnibble wrote: Have you forgotten I'm in a wheelchair? I am in a wheelchair because my knees failed, and any movement involving my knees causes excruciating pain. Also, and I don't stress this much, but I lost the ability to walk after I'd already been declared disabled. My right hand went bad making it difficult and painful to use a mouse, meaning I could no longer do full-time work as a programmer. I was on disability for two years before my knees failed. Just typing this message is slightly painful. I bought one, though. Target had a 5-pound square dumbbell - this way, it doesn't roll around and maybe over something that gets broken or damaged or become a tripping hazard - for something like 6 or 7 dollars, it's puke green, and even had a wrist strap, and made by one of the major fitness or shoe makers like Adidas or something. I don't even know where it is because after using it for a week it was just hard to do. My fingers don't have a lot of pull in them. So I don't really have the ability to lift much with my upper body, and my knees make any movement painful. So, let's see, I can get in my chair (ouch), roll over to the toilet (out), take a leak, get back on the chair (ouch), then get back into bed (ouch), or I can simply get up and pee in a cup, then dump that in a bucket and empty that once I get up in the morning to eat / bathe or go out. So I have a choice here, I can pee in a cup which does not hurt at all, or I can go through the effort to visit the toilet and suffer four agonizing incidents of extreme pain. Realize that the only way I can eliminate this problem is to have an operation to replace my knees. This means I have to get down to normal weight, and, presuming I was able to lose normal weight - hard to do when you can't exercise - would take a minimum of four years. Almost every time I move and sometimes just from sitting, I hurt. Worst is when I"ve sat long enough that my leg is numb. (But it's never a good numb like my knee going numb, no, it has to be the leg, foot and (whatever the equivalent to the wrist is for the foot) meaning I have a hard time using that leg to push me into bed when I crawl out of the chair. |
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