Whatta coupla days! WHEW!
Went and did a raft of paperwork, and spent a raft of money on Tuesday. Then went and rented a truck to move several hefty items of furniture, yesterday. Paying for that exertion a little bit, today, though I’m not feeling it as much as I thought I might.
So now Mom’s out of post-acute care and into her new digs at an Assisted Living facility. Ameliorating the ongoing expense of monthly add-on care is her “carrot” for pushing through in therapy to regain her mobility.
She had taken for granted how good she’d had it being able to get on in an Independent Living situation. DON’T ANY OF YOU DO LIKEWISE.
Without getting into the woulda, coulda, shoulda I’ll exhort you all on just this point:
If you are at all unstable on your feet, got get a cane. Get one with a sword hidden inside, if that’s what it takes for you to submit to the calumny of it all. Or get a walker. Get a candy apple red one, and have a flame job painted on it, if that’s what your ego requires. BE PROACTIVE in securing the future of your own independent mobility.
DO SOMETHING — do ANYTHING — other than doing nothing.
Why?
Because the alternatives TOTALLY SUCK!
Because Firsthand Experience is a pitiless and brutal Instructor.
Because otherwise you invite Reality, with its uniquely painful, staccato style of enunciation, to cruelly enumerate to you all the painful specifics of your own hubris, and Reality NEVER passes up that sort of invitation. NEVER.
Y’all my online frens, and I know some of ya better ‘n others of ya, but I want ALL of ya to live as best ya can.
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I very much appreciate your exhorta.tions and will attempt adherence
I have a cane, and it has been a good thing to have on hand. However, when I really need it, I don’t know I need it until the need has passed.
It has to do with the nerve being pinched in my neck, and it’s unpredictable as all get-out when my balance is going to get wonky.
Oddly enough, I was actually using it in February when I fell into the bookcase, but the ironic thing is, if I hadn’t have been using it, I wouldn’t have fallen.
Still, I keep it handy.
It’s good to know everything is in its new place. Hopefully mom will like it.
Young ArGee has a friend whose father gets stuck in his recliner and calls for people to come help him out of it. I guess I can count my blessings. Last night I tried to remind F-I-L how to switch his house from heat to cool and back without leaving it off. It did not go well. He has an Internet-enabled thermostat in his future.
But at least he can still walk.
And, yes, his wife should use a cane or a walker. But he derides her for it so she won’t.
I ran into the same thing and ended up with a 5...