Rough start to my day
Mar. 7th, 2015 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
monkey5sOne of the bigger problems I have with using the walker is that I can't easily get my food from the counter to the table. I've looked online for small wheeled kitchen carts, but haven't found anything that would work with the (small) size limitations in my kitchen. So I balance the bowl (tend not to even TRY moving a large plate, guaranteed spillage) on one handle of the walker and brace it with fingers/thumb that I can spare from actually moving the walker.
This morning the thing I dread happened- just as I was nearing the table, the edge of the bowl slipped out of my grasp and fell. It landed at an angle against the fabric bag that holds the magazines I haven't yet looked at, so the bowl didn't break. And, trying to stay on the bright side, I did not have all the cut up fruit fall out. Only most of it.
For the record, the apple chunks bounced the farthest, the orange chunks were the messiest, but it was the kiwi fruit pieces that were the most difficult to pick up. I was very sad to have to throw out all that beautiful fruit.
Then, when I called my bro at the hospital in the afternoon, he told me he hadn't had breakfast or lunch that day, "I just wasn't hungry." I asked if anybody there had had the talk with him about how important it was, as a diabetic, to eat on a regular schedule to help control his blood sugar? "They said I need lots of protein to heal my legs, yeah. Buuut..." So frustrating.
Really nothing else went on today, feel tired and creaky and lonely. The temperature outside got above freezing today, but there is still plenty of snow on the ground. And it feels like spring is just not going to come.
This morning the thing I dread happened- just as I was nearing the table, the edge of the bowl slipped out of my grasp and fell. It landed at an angle against the fabric bag that holds the magazines I haven't yet looked at, so the bowl didn't break. And, trying to stay on the bright side, I did not have all the cut up fruit fall out. Only most of it.
For the record, the apple chunks bounced the farthest, the orange chunks were the messiest, but it was the kiwi fruit pieces that were the most difficult to pick up. I was very sad to have to throw out all that beautiful fruit.
Then, when I called my bro at the hospital in the afternoon, he told me he hadn't had breakfast or lunch that day, "I just wasn't hungry." I asked if anybody there had had the talk with him about how important it was, as a diabetic, to eat on a regular schedule to help control his blood sugar? "They said I need lots of protein to heal my legs, yeah. Buuut..." So frustrating.
Really nothing else went on today, feel tired and creaky and lonely. The temperature outside got above freezing today, but there is still plenty of snow on the ground. And it feels like spring is just not going to come.
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Date: 2015-03-08 01:25 am (UTC)There are walker trays with rims and clip on baskets--would nothing like that help?
Sorry your brother is being a bad patient.
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Date: 2015-03-09 05:19 am (UTC)I think it's partly because I am not reconciled with the idea of ALWAYS having to use a walker. To some extent I am living on the flood plain for the Nile, I know. BUT STILL. Someday I will get my knees fixed.
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Date: 2015-03-09 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-09 09:21 pm (UTC)But I have issues with surgery, and I know as many people who have had problems as have had great success. So I'm letting the technology advance more, let's say.