Legless update
Nov. 16th, 2004 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyToday is the second day that I've walked to work without my cane. I guess this means I'm back to where I was six months ago, following on from the fall in Camden a few months ago which had me back on crutches briefly.
My knee has definitely sustained additional damage - it hurts when I do certain things, hold it or move it certain ways, when before I didn't have any serious pain in my knee at all. This is fairly upsetting - knees aren't particularly well designed joints, if I've got constant problems in mine now then the chances are it's only going to get worse over the years.
On the bright side, I doubt I've done any (more) serious damage to the bone. Of course, if I had, that would be much more likely to heal up over time than the knee is, so it's only a minor good point.
I can't quite work out if walking now hurts more than it did the first time I started walking without my cane. I think the pains are sharper and more focused in very specific areas, but probably they don't last as long after I stop walking.
Another area of concern for me is the increasingly cold weather - I'm pretty sure the cold and damp isn't going to do me any favours in the months to come. When I was looking at flats, I favoured those with central heating, and indeed I thought that the one I eventually took had it - but it doesn't. I may have to run up some quite serious electricity bills this winter with the heaters that are there. At least I can afford it now (more or less).
I was supposed to go back to a hospital four weeks after the fall to get my knee and leg checked out... as per usual, I've not got around to it. I should probably do that.
Related linkage: interesting way of describing how it feels to live with a constant illness or disability:
the spoon theory (spotted in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elise's journal)
My knee has definitely sustained additional damage - it hurts when I do certain things, hold it or move it certain ways, when before I didn't have any serious pain in my knee at all. This is fairly upsetting - knees aren't particularly well designed joints, if I've got constant problems in mine now then the chances are it's only going to get worse over the years.
On the bright side, I doubt I've done any (more) serious damage to the bone. Of course, if I had, that would be much more likely to heal up over time than the knee is, so it's only a minor good point.
I can't quite work out if walking now hurts more than it did the first time I started walking without my cane. I think the pains are sharper and more focused in very specific areas, but probably they don't last as long after I stop walking.
Another area of concern for me is the increasingly cold weather - I'm pretty sure the cold and damp isn't going to do me any favours in the months to come. When I was looking at flats, I favoured those with central heating, and indeed I thought that the one I eventually took had it - but it doesn't. I may have to run up some quite serious electricity bills this winter with the heaters that are there. At least I can afford it now (more or less).
I was supposed to go back to a hospital four weeks after the fall to get my knee and leg checked out... as per usual, I've not got around to it. I should probably do that.
Related linkage: interesting way of describing how it feels to live with a constant illness or disability:
the spoon theory (spotted in
elise's journal)