I survived the day in this new chair are the chair that we remodeled yesterday with the help of my brother with the foot boxes. Even with these added conveniences for me it's still going to be very difficult too spend any significant time in this power chair. I was fortunate I was able to cross my legs to be able to get my shorts on but it took me I bet you're almost an hour to get my shorts on and I didn't even really get them on I just put them on far enough that I could put on a long shirt to cover the fact that I wasn't able to get them up high enough to do them up as well as on my hip and everything else I guess that looked okay nobody could tell and I asked a number of folks to look at me critically. I had to make sure that I was dressed all right because I was going to lunch with my buddy Dwayne. We weren't going out he was bringing sandwiches in but still I was able to pull it off I don't know if I'll be able to continue to do this hopefully to some degree. I need to get a new cushion or one of my other cushions that's got the jail in it that I can maneuver to sit underneath my butt because this cushion doesn't seem to be doing a lot of protection. The transfer to bed last night was a little precarious because the chair I have now is not as high above the mattress as the other chairs have been making the rollover a little spooky cuz I don't get to fall as deep and so there's higher chances of me maybe falling off the bed hopefully the transfer tonight will be okay.
I was so impressed I got to call early this morning for my physical therapist actually he was the coordinator over the physical therapist from Intermountain Healthcare and he came out and did an evaluation on me just an initial eval he asked me questions and I gave him information about myself but I expected out of a program if possible all that kind of stuff. Sounds pretty positive next step now is that he's going to send out a occupational therapist to go through my living situation and make comments and recommendations and such. He's also going to set up I think someone to come out and look at some of the issues I'm going through physically and hopefully that will have some impact as well. The bottom line and the whole thing is that I feel that something's being done and that's good. The scary part is is that I'm admitting to a lot of people that have lost confidence in myself or I'm in the process of losing it as I'm not able to do as much physically as I once was. Again I hope this is all situational and well return with the return of my chair in a couple weeks. We'll have to see how that works out. Part of this conversation also came up with Dwayne at lunch today that I'm trying to be able to set myself up to accept whatever verdicts might come down as far as living independently in my own apartment, assisted living and worst case scenario in-house living the long-term care facility. It still makes the most sense to keep me in my apartment even with supports it's cheaper than long-term care or any kind of In-House living facility. I don't think it threatens me as much as it scares me hearing all the bad stories of what comes out of long-term care facilities especially the ones that only low income folks could afford- not saying that I'm low income but I'm certainly not a big roller that's for sure. Today was warm I spent a good part of it outside in the back of the apartments enjoying the Sun in between the clouds. I actually took my chair out to the market and got caught in a minor thunderstorm that was just passing through I got a few drops on my head but not too bad the chair made it there and back again I don't think the batteries are that good but I think they're good enough if I use a full charge on a Tuesday to get me downtown to my meeting and back. We're still having really strange feelings regarding my current situation or thought processes are whatever it is call it depression or what but I don't feel as constrained as I did. I may be deluding myself thinking that it's all going to work out but I somehow think it's going to work out whatever is it supposed to work out and I don't even know if that makes any sense..
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