Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Depressed situationally






I have always kind of prided myself on not really being a person that comes to depression but I have to confess that of late I'm being somewhat challenged on whether I could say I'm depressed or not. If anything it's a situation or depression that I'm sure because overall I still feel pretty good about everything and that everything will return to some form of normalcy- - at least that's what I truly want to believe. This morning I was able to get out of bed into my chair I took a bit of work but I did it and I was trying to get dressed when suddenly the chair failed again I was trapped in the chair that was tilted to a certain degree. I ended up having to call my brother who came over and actually got my chair functional again as well as finished dressing me which I totally appreciated but like I said is really beginning to wax down my Independence and myself concept. Today I was presented with another power chair from my good friends over at u c a t, it's a chair very similar to this one and a bit newer. The chairman now is pretty old and I think that's part of the issue with it. The only problem with the new chairs that there is no foot box and I've come to rely heavily on wheelchair foot boxes and keeping my feet in the Box while I transfer which not only helps with the transfer but keeps me in the chair and not sliding out on the floor dash dash which has happened. This newer chair now looks like a good alternative it'll cost a little bit if I want to purchase it 250 bucks which is a deal but at the same time that would give me two chairs of back up I'll get well I would get rid of this one I'm in right now the bad chair then I would keep the old power chairs being repaired now when I get my brand new chair which should happen at some point in time in the near future. I most likely will end up with three chairs all together at some point which kind of freaks me out. And the big question is am I going to continue to live independently in my apartment or am I going to have to start looking at long-term care? The reason I bring this up is that I think this chair I'm in now because I'm sitting so cattywampus I have to keep pulling myself up with my left arm, which is my good arm, which has become very painful to the point that I can barely use it for things that I need like armbike today I only did a half an hour on bike when I usually do an hour on bikes on Tuesdays. So hopefully rehab are in House Rehab might help at least let me know if I'm actually true and thinking that it's the arm pulling that's hurting my arm and nothing more Progressive. I'm totally hoping that with this new chair that I could get back into my old way of living independently on my own in the regular apartment


Speaking in that vein I did make some phone calls to my physician this morning just to find out what I could do to increase my chances of living independently and I was wondering if he could write up some information about me needed to go into rehab for strengthening and other options for extended living in the community and not long-term care. So much to think about.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Life and independence is continually working towards a better you. Look for any way to improve yourself and your well-being will improve as well. Don't let anyone tell you can't achieve something because you can do anything you set your mind to. Keep the faith!