My sore feet!

 

I've developed little sores on the sides of my feet. Actually they're not sore as much as they're just scraped so it look like scabs on the sides of each of my feet were I believe my foot rubs against the shoes that I wear. My physical therapist guy has been quite a tentative to these. I didn't even know that they were there to be honest. I just felt pain radiating from the sides of my feet and I thought they were bunions or something but obviously there are these places on the side of my feet that are wearing down so now I have to figure out whether I wear shoes I don't wear shoes or get some padding to put on the sides of my feet so they don't become open wounds. In fact the Medicare people from the hospital that I work with is going to provide a wound care person to look after these feet. That's amazing to me I've never had this kind of support before. What really sort of Spooks me however is that it also seems like my whole body seems to be falling apart. I hope this is not planned obsolescence or the way that people start to leave this world. In fact I'm really surprised that the amount of attention that I'm getting this month everything from occupational therapy and physical therapy to the wound care specialist as well as I'm meeting with some folks the next couple days Monday I think that are going to seriously look at my power chair and see if we can push the date on when I might be able to get another chair. This much service is quite time consuming and I find it out. Everyone's calling to get schedule an appointment time that they can come out and provide services. This evening or late afternoon when my physical therapist was here at the apartment I asked him how long this might go on because I was thinking I only got so many hours to my insurance but he informed me that this was not being paid for by my insurance as much as through my medicare! Almost like it's not going to go away they'll keep providing services. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that except for let's see what happens and let's see how well I can get.

I was called yesterday and informed that an opening had come about at the wheelchair shop and I should go to a meeting there with my wheelchair guys. And this would have been tomorrow in the afternoon. I spent all morning and part of the afternoon trying to figure out how to get the bus system over to this wheelchair shop. I've done it before but it's been so long that I've forgotten and the software that I used in the old days doesn't work anymore. The software that the transit authority replaced it with is just horrible to use so far for me anyway luckily for me however the whole project was shut down and instead of me having to go to the wheelchair shop they're coming to visit me on Monday. We hope to be able to establish evidence of need for me to get a new power chair because this one is just so wasted. It was indicated when we talked to the folks first of the week that I still had one whole year to go before I'd be eligible we're going to see if we can do a run around or side around whatever it's called and move that date up significantly. I'm just amazed and happy that I got people who's got my back. In the old days Dianne  would have pushed this through..