kfletcher
Active member
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2014
- Messages
- 56
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 12/2007
- Country
- Uni
- State
- Tennessee
- City
- Rutledge
I've been the same for about 8 years...then last August I took a pretty good fall that hurt my hip and leg pretty good...so I was using the power chair a lot. To stand was painful and stubborn me wouldn't go to he drs.
Fast forward till December and many falls later, when getting into bed one night...I moved just right and felt/heard a pop and then a major nerve numbing and pain all at once ( best way to describe was like the same feeling of hitting your funny bone). Now standing wasn't as painful, so I'm thinking maybe my hip joint was out a bit. Anyways..
So now I've increased weakness in my good leg and again falls galore. That I haven't been able to walk since March, but I could still stand...untill a final big fall in/out the shower. My good leg gave out and I fell into the glass doors, knocking them out ( they didn't break) and landed on them 1/2 in the shower and 1/2 out of the shower....luckily just very sore and huge bruise on the back of my bad leg thigh...so..
Now it's all I can do to stand and transfer or even pull up my pants...in fact sometimes I can't stand at all.
Now that my good leg has weakened so much I sometimes need help up. Which happened to me in June and my husband had to wrap his arms around me and lift me up....it felt like something pulled from ribs, but was only sore....2 days later same thing happened and this time a really sharp pain and I knew he hurt me...I gave a yell it hurt....after a trip to the er, because I was in some serious pain...we found out he had broken 2 of my ribs.
So now they have home health come in to make assessment to what I can use to make homelife safer and easier....bedside commode, transfer belt and sliding board.
Really feeling low and wondering what's next.....feeling helpless and alone, hard to talk about my feelings to my family and friends....scared....really scared.
Fast forward till December and many falls later, when getting into bed one night...I moved just right and felt/heard a pop and then a major nerve numbing and pain all at once ( best way to describe was like the same feeling of hitting your funny bone). Now standing wasn't as painful, so I'm thinking maybe my hip joint was out a bit. Anyways..
So now I've increased weakness in my good leg and again falls galore. That I haven't been able to walk since March, but I could still stand...untill a final big fall in/out the shower. My good leg gave out and I fell into the glass doors, knocking them out ( they didn't break) and landed on them 1/2 in the shower and 1/2 out of the shower....luckily just very sore and huge bruise on the back of my bad leg thigh...so..
Now it's all I can do to stand and transfer or even pull up my pants...in fact sometimes I can't stand at all.
Now that my good leg has weakened so much I sometimes need help up. Which happened to me in June and my husband had to wrap his arms around me and lift me up....it felt like something pulled from ribs, but was only sore....2 days later same thing happened and this time a really sharp pain and I knew he hurt me...I gave a yell it hurt....after a trip to the er, because I was in some serious pain...we found out he had broken 2 of my ribs.
So now they have home health come in to make assessment to what I can use to make homelife safer and easier....bedside commode, transfer belt and sliding board.
Really feeling low and wondering what's next.....feeling helpless and alone, hard to talk about my feelings to my family and friends....scared....really scared.