A quick observation
You always take good health and mobility for granted until it is taken away from you. Last week I had the misfortune of tearing ligaments and muscle in my leg (I was trying to dodge a car at the time but that’s another story). Consequently I have been unable to walk without the aid of a stick, and even then very slowly. I can’t manage stairs properly and I can’t do all the things I usually enjoy, like hiking and gardening. I’m told it could take six weeks before I am fully fit again – but the point is I WILL be fully fit again. I’ve had an insight into what it must be like to carry a permanent disability – so many things that are impacted by this, so frustrating to be incapacitated. I’m sure that in a few month’s time all this will just be a memory but it has been a lesson to me; I’m lucky in that my health and full mobility will return, many other are not so lucky. It’s been an eye-opener.
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We take many things for granted until we are left without them, as the saying goes…..Walk a mile in my shoes……then you can judge…..
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Very much in fashion for some men today Michael……think transvestites……….lol….xxx
I am glad you almost dodged that car. You could be writing a different story. Getting around with a stick is still getting around. I am glad that you reminded us to be grateful for our health and mobility.
Hello Owl
So nice to see you blogging again although I sorry to hear that you find yourself incapacitated – Glad to hear you are not too badly hurt but a six week lay off can seem a lifetime. Maybe we will hear more from you again?
Kindest regards and best wishes for a speedy return to mobility.
Kind regards Drummer
With that positive atitude you will have a speedy recovery. Good on you and good luck with your recovery.
That’s what I would call bad luck Dark. By the way ( 6 weeks? ) healing process? I think that depends on how intensive you stress the ligaments. Give it time to heal. Good luck, Michael
Best wishes to you for a speedy recovery Dark.
That is so true, we do take our good health for granted
So sorry Owl .
Glad you are better now.
It,s awful when we can,t walk.
After a car crash I was in a wheelchair .
For 3 months I felt like a dolly , that couldn’t speak.
I never thought how people think your daft ,cos you cant walk .
So I worked hard and through the Wheelchaie away.
Tc Owl Juney
In 2008, I was happy in my job, somewhat happy in my marriage (at the time) and life was good. I had been on my computer and my foot fell asleep. I tried to walk and fell in my hallway. That fall shattered my femur in 22 pieces. 5 months later I was finally able to place weight on it. But, at that point I no longer had my job because I had to take early retirement…had to keep money coming in you know. So yes, I do know how quickly life can change, along with plans for the future. Divorced now because the ex didn’t want a wife who was disabled. Thankfully the orthopedic surgeon was incredible and had put my femur back together with lots and metal and screws. Life goes on and thank goodness I have an incredible support network of friends and family.
Life can change in a blink of an eye. Praying you heal completely and well!
Unfortunately some fully able bodied folks, both young and old alike, have no patience nor empathy for someone who doesn’t hear well and has to have things repeated several times, with someone who has arthritis or numbness in their fingers and takes a little longer to retrieve their wallet, money, and or identification while on line at the bank or store checkout and then “walks” away too slowly with their walker or cane. Then there are those that offer assistance. To those people I say “Thank you.”
Thank you all for your replies, some of which certainly put my recent misfortune into perspective, I can happily report that the leg is 98% better now and I am back to the usual 2 mile dog walking and will soon be hiking again. Like I said in my original post, I knew I would get better – some less fortunate do not. I hope that this experience will be remembered the next time I have to wait for a person using a cane to cross the road, or to make way for someone in a wheelchair. A brief interlude perhaps but hopefully one which has a lasting and positive effect 🙂
So glad you did not get hit by the car!! My husband has Parkinsons and i can not tell you how many people will not hold a door open when they see me struggling with the wheelchair. When someone does open a door I am so thankful! They have no idea what a huge help it is for us. My advice for you is to stay away from moving vehicles!