Re: dealing with back and leg pain

[Guest guest]

I am no where near you in the lack of mobility department but I do not do

stairs. First because of the real danger of falling and second because it wears

out my knees more and causes more pain in my hips and knees.

I have a bedroom downstairs and my pc is also downstairs. Thank goodness the

bathroom is also downstairs.

You might want to consider rooming downstairs to prevent that chance of falling.

Jennette

> wrote:

> Since the stairs are so hard for me, I usually do all my 'computing' right

when I get up in the morning, or right before I go to bed. That way I only have

to go down the stairs and then come back up once a day.

[Guest guest]

Dear Jeanette:

I wish that I could set up our bedroom on the lower floor so that I didn't have

to deal with the stairs, but it's impossible in the place that we are living. 

It's a 3 level town home.  The bedrooms are on the top level, the living

room/dining area and kitchen on the main level (open floor plan) and the lowest

level is a walk out basement.  I've only been in that basement about 6 times in

the 9 months that we've lived here. 

The laundry is down there, but my husband has to do it.  He brings the finished

stuff up for me to fold.  We are very lucky to have a bathroom on the main level

and on the top level, so that I don't have to manage the stairs just for that. 

I only do the stairs once a day because they are so difficult.  I am extremely

careful, too.  We have hand holds on both sides, which is a very good thing.  I

agree that it is terrible on the knees, especially my trashed knee.  I've

learned the rule, 'up leading with the good leg, and down leading with the bad

leg.'  There is a landing in the middle, too which helps.  Since I wrote last,

my husband set up our extra computer on the main level, which will be such a big

help.  I will be able to play my games and check my mail and stuff without

having to come up here, which will be great!  Happy New Year to me! 

I am excited to see how much of a difference it will make.

- PA

Jennette wrote:

I am no where near you in the lack of mobility department but I do not do

stairs. First because of the real danger of falling and second because it wears

out my knees more and causes more pain in my hips and knees.

[Guest guest]

Have you considered one of those sit and ride things that goes on the stair

rail? I can't remember what it's called, but they were advertising it on

TV around here a while back. I only really remember because the " tag line "

was SO ridiculous...

" Do you fall often going up and down stairs? We have the cure, don't fall " .

The first time I saw that, I was in SHOCK..it was SO .obnoxious, LOL. Then,

of course, the commercial came on and showed that it was for the little seat

that runs up a track on the stair rail... I didn't know they still made

those, LOL

Marta

wrote:

I wish that I could set up our bedroom on the lower floor so that I didn't

have to deal with the stairs, but it's impossible in the place that we are

living. It's a 3 level town home. The bedrooms are on the top level, the

[Guest guest]

Have you considered a stair lift chair?

At least, you have a computer to use now.

Honestly, I sleep on the couch now because the bed makes my shoulders and hips

hurt too much. I'm looking for a nice daybed for my front front room. It has

the wood burner and the other front room has the tv.

When we bought this old house I was really looking forward to having a one story

home after living with stairs for 5 years. Prior to that my home was one story

and I loved it. We looked at another home that had all remodeled up and down

stairs. Upstairs was two bedrooms and a third had been made into a very fine

large bathroom. There was also a large room bathroom downstairs with kitchen,

dining, living and a bedroom. This home was in better shape than the one we

bought but was almost 20,000 dollars more asking price. I think we could have

talked them down though. My husband fell in love with the barns here on the

property we bought. I told him, if there's barns he can count on animals and we

have animals here LOL.

The other place had a perfectly good building that needed some work and some

saplings cut down for a driveway. I would have been happier there I think, just

because it was very wooded, in a valley and felt more like home to me. Now we

are in open farm land with blustery winds nearly every day and I often remind

him that we could have been sheltered by the hills and trees and shaded better

in summer too. Oh well. I lost that time but I do have a horse here, finally.

I didn't want to live out my days never having a horse. I'd had them all my

life prior to getting hurt.

Jennette

wrote:

I wish that I could set up our bedroom on the lower floor so that I didn't have

to deal with the stairs, but it's impossible in the place that we are living.

It's a 3 level town home.

[Guest guest]

Dear Marta:

 

Before we moved from our house in NY, we were considering getting one of those

stair lifts.  But now we live in a rented town house.  They said that if we

wanted to, we could look into it, but come to find out, the open railings and

angles that are meant to look modern, keep us from being able to have the

rails. 

I'm not sure we're going to stay here after our year lease is up. I really love

the location everything is within 10 minutes, including all of my doctors but,

it will all depend on how long I can manage with the stairs. So far I've been

hanging in there. 

 

- PA

Have you considered one of those sit and ride things that goes on the stair

rail?