Well that's me off my bike for a while

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I'm getting the frame around the toilet to aid with standing, but not the raised bit. Think the trial walking frame is Monday!

 

[Pale Rider]

I'm getting the frame around the toilet to aid with standing, but not the raised bit. Think the trial walking frame is Monday!

Not seen one of those, but it should be free standing, so you can hide it somewhere if guests are expected.

Not that I bother, not least because I don't have many guests.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I don't have many guests.

Me neither, though my mother is coming over for a 2nd Friday in a row. I think she may have been rather worried about me last Friday.

 

[Stonechat]

I'm getting the frame around the toilet to aid with standing, but not the raised bit. Think the trial walking frame is Monday!

When we got our (built in ) outside loo converted to inside for Mrs S, we got it raised up. No rails but she can grab the door frame, it's not big.
Dad used to have one of the frames. Jeez it sounds so hard for you. Keep your spirits up if you can. Know it's hard for Mrs S. I need to keep doing my reduced amount of cycling to keep me sane too.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

When we got our (built in ) outside loo converted to inside for Mrs S, we got it raised up. No rails but she can grab the door frame, it's not big.
Dad used to have one of the frames. Jeez it sounds so hard for you. Keep your spirits up if you can. Know it's hard for Mrs S. I need to keep doing my reduced amount of cycling to keep me sane too.

I'm trying hard to get my husband cycling again! He hasn't done this had happened and I know it would help him! He has finally got as far as getting his panniers out again and when I innocently asked him why you'd me he was going to start cycling to work again! That was last week mind you

We are tenants so there is a limited amount of what we can do to the place place. However some suction cup handles in the miniature shower have been fantastic! They hold so well that I suspect they will bring the tiles off the wall before they let go .

 

[summerdays]

He possibly wants to be in the car so that he can get home quicker if he needed to? (True love)

 

[Scoosh]

I'm trying hard to get my husband cycling again!

He's rather the unsung hero in all this, isn't he ? Having had to do a bit of 'extra work' for Mrs Scoosh when she smashed up her shoulder a year or two back, I can appreciate something of what he - and all you other amazingly wonderful, loving, caring spouses of those with mobility/health issues - must be going through. Quite genuinely, you all have my deepest admiration and respect. **

Kind of brings home those wedding vows of "for better, for worse, … in sickness and in health".

I hope you all manage to get some Me Time and enjoy your cycling.



**(at last an opportunity to use that smiley )

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Kind of brings home those wedding vows of "for better, for worse, … in sickness and in health".

he has been offered the opportunity of 'out' but won't. Why is beyond me some days but like you said he is the unsung hero, but getting out on his bike would help him a lot to deal with the stress he is under. I have been trying ot get him out on his bike at weekends - the idea of cycling to work took me by surprise as well! It is his birthday on Sunday and he still has not given me any ideas on what he wants. So given how much he raved about the bread bin whilst we were living in our landlady's house, I have bought him one! Not really what I wanted to get him, but he doesn't want music vouchers or book vouchers so a bread bin it is! he has no idea.

On another note, I was at the hospital again this morning for a contrast MRI... all went well, not that much can go wrong with an MRI that is.

 

[Scoosh]

… a contrast MRI... all went well, not that much can go wrong with an MRI that is.

Maybe but you getting out of the house, to the hospital, getting scanned and back home again - all in one piece = and , maybe even in my book !

Hope you are neither too sore nor drugged to the eyeballs or beyond.

 

[Ganymede]

he has been offered the opportunity of 'out' but won't. Why is beyond me some days but like you said he is the unsung hero, but getting out on his bike would help him a lot to deal with the stress he is under. I have been trying ot get him out on his bike at weekends - the idea of cycling to work took me by surprise as well! It is his birthday on Sunday and he still has not given me any ideas on what he wants. So given how much he raved about the bread bin whilst we were living in our landlady's house, I have bought him one! Not really what I wanted to get him, but he doesn't want music vouchers or book vouchers so a bread bin it is! he has no idea.

On another note, I was at the hospital again this morning for a contrast MRI... all went well, not that much can go wrong with an MRI that is.

You must tell him from us that we think he's brilliant.

And I think a bread bin is a great present. He'll use it forever!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Hope you are neither too sore nor drugged to the eyeballs or beyond.

you clearly haven't see the mistakes I have made moderating this morning, or the newbie thread where I asked nigelnaturist how he was planning on shaving 5kg off a frame he was looking at because I read 1350g as 13.5kg!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Dr has just been on a house visit following on from my request for more morphine last week. I also wanted my pregabalin (lyrica) dose changed so the Dr on the phone decided a home visit was in order for a review of my situation...

Luckily I got one of the nice drs who knew I am normally very active and knows I would normally cycle to and from the surgery.. It was a very helpful visit and he is going to prescribe some longer acting morphine tablets for me to take first thing in the morning, and has agreed to increasing my lyrica as well at lunchtime so help with the issues in the evening with my leg cramping up and is also going to write a referral for private physio to come out and help teach me how to walk properly or at least walk better than I am now! He thinks a lot of the pain I have at the moment may be from inflammation in the sacroiliac joint as well as the back pain at L5-S1 (my falling does not help matters). He also disagrees with my consultant saying physio won't be useful, but I need a private referral because the NHS physio that come out to me (started last week) are more orientated at looking at and dealing with issues around the home than they are anything else. BUPA will cover this and I did have 6 sessions already authorised. don't know if I still have but I'll find out. He also wants me to start taking more morphine (liquid) to deal with the pain better during the day, so whilst things haven't progressed on a physical note, they have with progress in other areas.

 

[vickster]

Sounds like a productive doctor visit

Normally Bupa sessions aren't time limited, but they are specific to a particular practitioner or practice, so you may need to change that if, for example, they were signed off for the hospital or whatever. It's an easy phonecall to get amended as long as the new provider is fee assured

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Sounds like a productive doctor visit

Normally Bupa sessions aren't time limited, but they are specific to a particular practitioner or practice, so you may need to change that if, for example, they were signed off for the hospital or whatever. It's an easy phonecall to get amended as long as the new provider is fee assured

If the provider is the physio then I have named a person who knows me and has seen me and more importantly was on the list of physios previously named by BUPA who would make home visits. The 6 sessions were authorised when we first made the first phone call relating to the condition.. if that makes sense.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Oh dear I feel your pain I do hope you get better soon

I get the feeling that I am going to be on morphine and pregabalin for a long time sadly but if it gets me up and sitting again then I will celebrate. I guess if I can sit, then I can at least consider a life outside of this bedroom again! And sitting would mean I could use a wheelchair and go shopping - Oh I so want to go to the supermarket again! It would be really nice the little things in life hey?