Wcwct, I hope your recovery is coming along smoothly. Please let us know how you are doing. I haven't seen you around for a few days (maybe that's a good sign). :) I have been sitting in this wheelchair as you well know and seem to have increasing pain in the thigh and sciatic nerve area (is that at the bottom of one side of your bottom). This is all happening on the side with the cast on the leg (foot). What would be the cause of this horrible pain? :eek: Please don't tell me too much sitting around!! I don't want to and am not able to be on the crutches all day. Is it because the thigh muscle is starting to atrophy?? Do you have any suggestions?? Thanks! Sophie :angel:

Good morning Sophie. I am glad that you got the wheelchair back. I think that you pain, I hate to say it, is from a little of both. I think that you might need a chair pad. You can get them at a wheelchair supply place but they are way to expensive. JC Penny has a memory foam pad that fits a wheelchair perfectly. I think they call it a stadium pad or seat. I know that they sell them in the linen department or it is in the catalog. It is only about 20.00 or less.

When you get your exercise tape and start doing the exercises, you will start feeling better. I think that it is mostly the pad. I bought a chair pad from our office supply place at work. It was mainly for office chairs but it worked great in my wheelchair and it was not $100.00 or more for a cheap foam pad. I got that one for about $30.00. It is so funny, when people come into my office, they automatically sit in my wheelchair and say, boy, this is great. I guess that is my new guest chair

I feel ok. I am able to stand and walk (with a major limp) I think I might need more physical therapy. I am so exhausted and both feet are so painful. Between going back to work and taking care of my mohter, I don't think I will get any rest. I think that people think that after 8 days post op, you are all better and back to being the work horse. Well, I am not. I am exhausted and frustrated. LOL. I think I need a nap.

I am debating if I should still go to Baltimore for an opinion on my left foot. The Dr. that took out the implant said that my heel is slid to the outside of my foot and my fibia is bone on bone with the outside of my heel. I think that I just answered my own question. I need to get strong on the right side before I think of doing yet another surgery.

How do you feel. I cannot believe that it is going to take that long to get the bone stimulator. I sometimes wonder who the idiots are at the insurance companies. I wonder if they would push the claim thru faster if it was "them" in that situation. I bet they would.

Sophie: are you feeling better. Did your tape arrive. I think that I am going to take my advice and work out with the tape tonight.

Wtwct, I have just been lurking. I am in a woe is me mood again :rolleyes: and know I shouldn't be. The weather is beautiful today and I am stuck in the house. Went to the corner on my crutches to get the mail. Yesterday, during the superbowl, I put hearts around the front of my cast. Today I hate the hearts but they are permanently on there. Oh well!! Just hoping the foot will heal itself by the end of the month!!
No my tape hasn't arrived...I'm still waiting for it (I didn't think it would take this long). Thanks so much for asking about me! Hopefully you are doing OK??? At least when you are at work, you can interact with other people. Hope to talk to you soon. Sophie :angel:

:(.....sorry to hear you're having a rough time Sophie. You're so right that it helps to be able to interact with people and not be just stuck at home. I kept telling myself all the stuff of ..."it could always be worse"...and yes, that's true but it really is all relevant. I will see some progress or be able to do something I couldn't and be happy about that but will easily admit I just won't rest until I feel like I have my life back and am able to do what I'm now used to doing. I'm happy then but when I realize how much more I have to go I'll get frustrated again. I think it's just human nature to be that way.....who knows?..maybe just me?! I try to think of it as the fighter in me/us though and honestly think that's where it comes from although it may manifest as being fed up with it all and getting down. I mean if we were complacent and content with not getting better that would be rather pathetic I think. You've definitely helped me and given such great advice and encouragement and I can't thank you enough! I wish there were something I could do to help. You're obviously a fighter Sophie. I know we forget most of the bad in life and thankfully so. I will say one thing though....I've not written a fraction of the medical stuff I've been through and yeah...lots of it is just fascinating to all the docs and how I've gotten better at all(woohoo).....but I'm here to tell ya...this foot/feet stuff is NOT for the faint at heart! You're tough and will get through this. I will too but just wish that day were yesterday.....or a couple months ago! ......I'm not sure where you live either but it's "looked nice" outside here alot and I'm in a usually very warm climate.....but hasn't been really. That is the one thing I've kept telling myself over and over..and over!.....that by the time it's really nice outside I will be past the worst...hopefully REALLY past it!.....and you too!...and we'll be able to get outside and enjoy the things we like doing. I think I would go into orbit if I had to miss another spring/summer in life...well, and be aware or feel well enough in my head to care about it! Hang in there!:)....we all need you here for sure!!!!

Thank you, Cindy. So very happy to see that you seem to have turned the corner!! Sophie :angel: