So I am bed ridden

[Unkotare]

Be up and about as much as you can and it will make you stronger. You got more in you than you think.

 

[badbob85037]

I have been bedridden with just a small amount of time each day spent in a wheelchair since about June of 2022.

I am learning to walk again. I lost 130 pounds over a bit of year and am still heavy I weigh 234 my max weight should be 186 or so. All the weight dropped has added me in moving around and I stand a lot on the side of the bed.

I just walked with the aid of a walker from my room to the living room and back. And I only started therapy a week or so ago. My goal is to be able to use the bathroom again, which means I need to get a bar put up in the bathroom cause the walker is too wide to enter and where the bathroom sits, we can't widen the door. I am basically able to walk there now just can't enter yet. The Bathroom is closer to my bedroom then the living room is.

I am also spending more time in the chair. I have bedsores and it is good for them to change how I am laying or sitting. So, things are looking up for me.

God's speed on your recovery.

 

[The Duke]

I have been bedridden with just a small amount of time each day spent in a wheelchair since about June of 2022.

I am learning to walk again. I lost 130 pounds over a bit of year and am still heavy I weigh 234 my max weight should be 186 or so. All the weight dropped has added me in moving around and I stand a lot on the side of the bed.

I just walked with the aid of a walker from my room to the living room and back. And I only started therapy a week or so ago. My goal is to be able to use the bathroom again, which means I need to get a bar put up in the bathroom cause the walker is too wide to enter and where the bathroom sits, we can't widen the door. I am basically able to walk there now just can't enter yet. The Bathroom is closer to my bedroom then the living room is.

I am also spending more time in the chair. I have bedsores and it is good for them to change how I am laying or sitting. So, things are looking up for me.

You need to not have bedsores. That's bad.

 

[The Duke]

I hadnt been walking well since 2016 or so was using a wheelchair for anything more than a few hundred feet. then in December 2020 I passed out in the bathroom from covid and came down hard and shattered my right ankle. Because I had covid they wouldnt operate so I had to heal the old-fashioned way spent 8 months in a nursing home with a cast and orders not to put any weight on the ankle.

the cast I had for 7 months and then spent a month learning to walk again. When I got home I had a hospital bed and got lazy didnt get up much. about 6 months later I was leaving a doctor visit and fell trying to get in the car. Pretty much gave up after that.

But my grandkids live with me now and have motivated me to try again.

Here's to hoping they know or learn how to do things.
Like flip ya and treat bedsores.

 

[ChristisKing]

You know it's nice to see the usual lefty trolls showing their humanity side for once and caring about somebody else's situation and wishing them well. If they could always act like this then I would never have any problems with them.

 

[Chuz Life]

Msg. received Gunny. I wish I could lose half as much as you did. That's a great start.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Until I got my pain-blocking implant(2002) and a spinal laminectomy(2014) I couldna walk twenty feet. Now I have been upright and working as a chief engineer.

Glad that worked for you.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

You need to not have bedsores. That's bad.

they are going away still have 3 small open wounds, but I generally don't bleed anymore.

 

[The Duke]

they are going away still have 3 small open wounds, but I generally don't bleed anymore.

Pack them with sterile gauze and tape over it.
My redneck ass would use 2" masking tape. Just like for Brown Recluse bites.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Pack them with sterile gauze and tape over it.

they aren't big enough they never got very big we started working on them as soon as I got them.

 

[The Duke]

they aren't big enough they never got very big we started working on them as soon as I got them.

Well, I hope you get up and around more.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Well, I hope you get up and around more.

I am just walked again into living room, had to sit and rest before going back but I am getting stronger

 

[sparky]

Hang in there Sarge ~S~

 

[deannalw]

My hubby James has had a few surgeries- the one on his knee replacement had us believing he may just be bed ridden. He worked his ass off. I was very proud of him, but still almost threw him out the back door because he was the worst patient EVAH!

Course, I didn't make nurse of the year either, but I did my best.

lol

You seem to have a wonderful attitude and that will help a lot