Broken Foot - Adapting

March 20, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

When you have just one good foot to get around on, the stuff you took for the ordinary takes on a whole new appearance.   A brisk morning walk of 3 blocks to get your morning cup of coffee becomes a very log walk on crutches.  And how do you hold your coffee while using two crutches?  I haven’t figured that out yet.

Around the house, I’m now using a Nalgene container to carry around my water.  I can use a finger to hold it by the loop while I crutch around.  Mabye I’ll have to fabricate some sort of loop to attach to my coffee cup?

I’m also learning how to pee standing up on just one leg.  It’s not really the standing part that is the problem, but it seems like the bladder is very reluctant to let go if you’re not completely stable.  So I’m standing on one foot, trying to stand very still so I can pee.  I know I can sit down to pee, but I’m trying to keep things interesting, and I do enough sitting around already.

Cooking and dishes on one leg also becomes more of an effort.  You want to minimize the moving around you have to do, by pulling together everything you need to start with and keeping them within reach.

And today I’ll need to do laundry.  The laundry room is in the building next to my cottage, so I think I’ll have to load up my backpack with clothes and the laundry soap, then crutch on out there.

I also wanted to thank all of you who stopped in to comment, either here, or on facebook, or via email.  Its really a big help to my spirits to hear from all of you and one thing I also noticed was how many of you told me to keep on taking pictures.  I definitely am going to try to do that as soon as I feel more comfortable in crutching around…

I see the doctor today at 2pm.  I’m crossing my fingers for no-surgery!

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