So I am bed ridden

[ChristisKing]

Good luck and congratulations on losing that much weight, just 30 more pounds to go to reach your goal, you got this.

Hey, you've got a heart too.

 

[Leo123]

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.

Glad to hear you are making progress. I have a friend in a similar situation but he weighs about 350. Bad knees, doc won't help unless he loses 100 lbs.

 

[Yarddog]

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.

Hope you recover, and improve beyond your goals. Keep setting new ones!

 

[Lockback]

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.

Prayers and encouragement sent, brother.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

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.

Family and determined motivation are the two main things needed to get well

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Good luck and congratulations on losing that much weight, just 30 more pounds to go to reach your goal, you got this.

I am losing about a pound a week except last week I ate a lot of fish and gained 2 pounds

 

[eagle1462010]

I am losing about a pound a week except last week I ate a lot of fish and gained 2 pounds

You got this bro. Hang tough and YOU WILL SUCCEED

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I just dunno about this aging gig....... ~S~

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I know. But they say it's better than the alternative.

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[WorldWatcher]

Be strong Gunny…

You can do this.

WW

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Be strong Gunny…

You can do this.

WW

thanks, after I fell in 2022 I gave up but the grandkids are living with me now and they love seeing me out and about. The first effect of that was to get me to get in the wheelchair more now I wanna at least walk a little to show them I can, went in the living room last night and they were very happy.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I don't like doing my exercises so I walk into the living room and back instead, that should be exercise enough.

 

[ChristisKing]

I don't like doing my exercises so I walk into the living room and back instead, that should be exercise enough.

Take it easy though.

 

[Jets]

Get well Sgt!

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Take it easy though.

I do, had to rest yesterday after I got in the living room I don't push to far.

 

[Unkotare]

I don't like doing my exercises so I walk into the living room and back instead, that should be exercise enough.

Push yourself.

 

[mcswan]

I do, had to rest yesterday after I got in the living room I don't push to far.

Prayers going out to you, sarge, I pray particularly that God give you and your family strength to dear with this in a caring, loving way.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I weigh 225 now but have been fluctuating between that and 230 the last 3 or 4 weeks. still able to walk into living room, waiting on the bar for bathroom.

added getting into the car as a goal to shoot for. we have 2 suvs so have to be able to step on to the lip in car to get into seat.

once that happens will be stuck with manual wheelchair on those outings as my vehicles probably can't handle the weight of the electric wheelchair.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

the local county handicapped bus will take me to other places then doctor appointments I found out Wednesday I went to Golden corral and today I went to the Mall and bought 3 books. havent been to a food place since probably april of 2022 and except for my driving my wheelchair to the close by dollar general havent been in a store since then. thats when I gave up on walking cause I fell getting into the car.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I weigh 225 now but have been fluctuating between that and 230 the last 3 or 4 weeks. still able to walk into living room, waiting on the bar for bathroom.

added getting into the car as a goal to shoot for. we have 2 suvs so have to be able to step on to the lip in car to get into seat.

once that happens will be stuck with manual wheelchair on those outings as my vehicles probably can't handle the weight of the electric wheelchair.

How small are your SUVs? I had a Ford Explorer Sport and towed an enclosed motorcycle trailer full of furniture from KY to TX and back.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

How small are your SUVs? I had a Ford Explorer Sport and towed an enclosed motorcycle trailer full of furniture from KY to TX and back.

the ford probably is the biggest and I dont think it is rated to do 500 pounds.