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a year ago
Nope, nothing wrong on this end. I've been silent for a few days because I'm doing technical and developmental edits on TWO novels now (not mine; other writers) and that does take time.
I also hauled out some of my older stuff and am working on getting it scanned in AND revising the novel I almost finished. Yay inspiration!
...er... and I've been playing Warcraft. New expansion dropped. I got mobs to kill and stories to explore!
On a more serious note, I've upped my time at the gym with my personal trainer to twice a week -- and am grateful for it. Every Friday I go to a needlework club at the library with a number of women who range in age from 45 (my daughter) to 90-something. On Friday, as we were about to leave, I started for the car and noticed one of the other members on her knees in front of her car, two men hovering over her. She'd fallen, and yes, she couldn't get up.
The most unsettling thing about a situation like that is that you KNOW how to get up...but your muscles don't work. It's as though you have no energy. You tell your mind to move this arm here and that leg there, but there's no energy to move them. They're inert. The two men tried to help her to her feet, but her muscles weren't having any of it.
I got her to drink some water and the guys brought out two chairs. She asked to have the hood of the car lifted so she could hang onto it, and I managed to get the heavy thing lifted once someone popped the latch (and I thanked my coach mentally for that) The guys left and I stayed and talked to her about getting some physical therapy and an occupational therapist (to help rearrange her house so that IF (when, actually) she fell again she could get to help or get to her feet.
(sigh) I don't think she will. She was talking about buying a rollator instead.
Now, I'm not against those things. I think they're wonderful. But she's younger than me (by about 8 years?) and my heart sank. If she goes that route rather than trying therapy and strategies, she WILL end up in trouble (sooner rather than later) and it'll turn into a long hospital stay.
(sigh)
I'll see her next week and maybe some of the others will also encourage her to do physical therapy. Once you end up in the wheelchair, very few get out of it... and she lives alone, so it's a fast step from there into the nursing home.
I'm not against nursing homes (I think they're good solutions for some situations) but I wish for something a bit better for her than that kind of fate.
I also hauled out some of my older stuff and am working on getting it scanned in AND revising the novel I almost finished. Yay inspiration!
...er... and I've been playing Warcraft. New expansion dropped. I got mobs to kill and stories to explore!
On a more serious note, I've upped my time at the gym with my personal trainer to twice a week -- and am grateful for it. Every Friday I go to a needlework club at the library with a number of women who range in age from 45 (my daughter) to 90-something. On Friday, as we were about to leave, I started for the car and noticed one of the other members on her knees in front of her car, two men hovering over her. She'd fallen, and yes, she couldn't get up.
The most unsettling thing about a situation like that is that you KNOW how to get up...but your muscles don't work. It's as though you have no energy. You tell your mind to move this arm here and that leg there, but there's no energy to move them. They're inert. The two men tried to help her to her feet, but her muscles weren't having any of it.
I got her to drink some water and the guys brought out two chairs. She asked to have the hood of the car lifted so she could hang onto it, and I managed to get the heavy thing lifted once someone popped the latch (and I thanked my coach mentally for that) The guys left and I stayed and talked to her about getting some physical therapy and an occupational therapist (to help rearrange her house so that IF (when, actually) she fell again she could get to help or get to her feet.
(sigh) I don't think she will. She was talking about buying a rollator instead.
Now, I'm not against those things. I think they're wonderful. But she's younger than me (by about 8 years?) and my heart sank. If she goes that route rather than trying therapy and strategies, she WILL end up in trouble (sooner rather than later) and it'll turn into a long hospital stay.
(sigh)
I'll see her next week and maybe some of the others will also encourage her to do physical therapy. Once you end up in the wheelchair, very few get out of it... and she lives alone, so it's a fast step from there into the nursing home.
I'm not against nursing homes (I think they're good solutions for some situations) but I wish for something a bit better for her than that kind of fate.
(* whew *)
I'm interested in stem cell injections but they're not "there" yet, according to my knee doctor.
Vix
All you can do is offer advice and support. Hopefully she'll make the effort.
And best of luck on your bloody WOW rampage!
Physically or mentally (even spiritually) we need to keep moving forward.