Re: Lyndi... I found one of the elves

[Guest guest]

I found an elf yesterday. I guess my prosthesis gave out, or I tripped over a

sand molecule, and I fell straight down on my knee. That is the third time in

less than a year that I have fallen straight down. My knee is burning so much.

I've been trying to finish editing something, but finally the aching got so

severe I took two pain pills and came to bed. The worst thing is standing up

from my desk chair or... Uh, the potty.

Any suggestions besides ice? And ice cream?

>Tami wrote:

> We should add those little mischief elves that I trip over! Hope your ankle

heals quickly Lyndi. I sprained mine a while back and can feel your pain and

frustration.

[Guest guest]

Using a cane to lift up and down from a seated position helps me a lot.

Ellen in TN

> wrote:

> The worst thing is standing up from my desk chair or... Uh, the potty.

[Guest guest]

wrote:

> I found an elf yesterday. I guess my prosthesis gave out, or I tripped over a

sand molecule, and I fell straight down on my knee. That is the third time in

less than a year that I have fallen straight down. My knee is burning so much.

I've been trying to finish editing something, but finally the aching got so

severe I took two pain pills and came to bed. The worst thing is standing up

from my desk chair or... Uh, the potty.

>

> Any suggestions besides ice? And ice cream?

Yep. Stay away from the ice cream, stick with the ice, and eat plenty

of fresh vegetables (not drowned in greasy dressings). :-)

It's nice (and also sad) to know that others trip over the unseen.

Those damned dust mites and sand molecules are treacherous things!

I met with the surgeon on Tuesday and will meet with him again on Feb.

15th. The broken leg bone bits have shifted a bit closer together. If

I can get them to move two more centimetres, I'll be able to avoid

surgery. However, he informed me that not only do I have a broken leg,

but that I ripped the tendons at the ankle bone and that my foot, ankle,

and leg are all severely sprained. That information really cheered me

up ;-)

After seeing three doctors in one day - only two days after the

accident, I was so exhausted that I could barely make it up four steps

on crutches to get into our home. My husband stood behind me and kept

his hands on my back and backside, to I wouldn't tumble backwards. I was

so relieved to make it to the couch and a pile of pillows!

I'll be on the knee walker and crutches for about eight weeks. Six, if

all goes really, really well. Then I'll be on a walker, then cane etc.

I'm not looking forward to any of this. I just want to get back to

work. (from this group) has taken over the office for me and is

doing a splendid job. She's been a real Godsend (for lack of a better

word) and has become a very good and trusted friend. Yay !

Of course the fall and all that has followed it, have sent me into a

full fibro flare. Plus, with having such a wrecked spine, I've had to

get up to protect my spine, when I should be laying down with my leg and

foot elevated and iced. My spine has to take take precedence though.

I'm in a damned if I do, damned if I don't kind of spot. I was hoping

to be able to spend a couple of hours at the office today and tomorrow,

but that's not going to happen. After 20 minutes of being up and mobile

with the knee walker, I am so tired I have to lay down again. One thing

about broken bones and bad spines, they sure know when to tell us what

needs to be done. lol

I hope you don't keep taking spills. Either that or get a skateboarder

knee pad to wear on your knee. It might look a little silly, but it'd

beat doing in your " good " knee.

Lyndi

[Guest guest]

Bad news! Dratted elves, dust mites and aliens! I keep my walker in

the bedroom for those times the body just isn't going to get up off

the chair or couch. I also keep it there to remind me how much I hated

using it when relearning walking. The wheelchair is on the back porch

because it isn't as huge an incitement to me to keep walking. I keep a

cane in the husband's truck, one on the porch, one in the garden shed

and one next to the desk.

Sometimes I think I'd rather use the wheelchair for grocery shopping times since

the pain after standing and walking for that long is a lot more than I can

handle. Ah well, I am vertical and can do for now.

Can you get one of those ice machine things the ortho surgeon sends

you home with after shoulder or knee surgery? I use mine a lot,

especially now that I've torn the OTHER idiotic rotator cuff.

(Everyone needs a hobby I guess.) At least you don't need to go

through all the frozen veg in the freezer and it doesn't take as much

ice and isn't as drippy as using real ice on your shoulder.

If you've got a blender and some sugar free fruit drink, you can

always use some ice and sugar free fruit drink in the blender to make

a slushie. Or make a sugar free granita. Unless you are one of those

people who can eat ice cream without gaining. I had a kid like that

once until he hit 30 and started gaining weight like a normal person.

For me (if no one else and this is not medical advice) alternating

between heat and cold seems to help. I call it my schizo-affective

treatment of joint injuries.

Hope this makes sense. Pain cranking out well today between jaw

abscess and dratted Crohns.

Jeanne B in GA

>Ellen in TN wrote:

> Using a cane to lift up and down from a seated position helps me a lot.