Zoom! Watch me go!
Had total and utter brainwave last night! I’ve been reading various comments about knee trolley things and thinking they look quite cool, but have had a look and they just don’t seem to have caught on in the UK. Then last night I was helping my daughter with her homework at the dining room table where I’m hoping to set up my own little office before too long. It occurred to me that the dining room chairs were just too low for comfort working on the laptop and that I would have to get myself………an office chair!! Then the two ideas collided and now I am zooming around the house on my snazzy new wheely chair! Fortunately downstairs is all on one level with laminate floor everywhere so I can get about easily, using door frames and other furniture to ’sling shot’ myself around when I’m not pushing with the good foot. I can raise myself up and down for different things and even use it as a knee rest if I have to stand up for some reason. So - bad leg happy because not doing anything, good leg happy because job easier, shoulders really happy! I’m happy because can get about a bit indoors at least. Happy Smoley = Happy Hubby = Happy children = even happier Smoley!
But I promise I will still be doing lots of resting and elevating too!
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Excellent news… funny how creative we can get when we have to!
Oh but seriously - if you don’t have stairs or steps to worry about, when you are NWB, a wheely “typist chair” thing is the way to go! Can’t tell you how this has changed my perspective - don’t feel like such an invalid in my own home anymore!
Smoley
PS. Smoley is not my real name (as if!), it’s what my parents called me when I was a baby. I could tell you my real name, but then I’d have to kill you!
P.P.S. All very quiet on the site this evening. Is everyone out on the lash?
Kind of lame but I have just discovered the technique of rolling about in the office chair a week ago, after being fed up of having to always “lace up” my boots when I removed them and needed to fetch something.
You were faster! Congrats.
Someone I know who had an ATR a few years back (only found that out after I’d had mine) said she’d used her computer chair to get around. We’ve got carpet except for the kitchen and bathroom so not too helpful for me.
We do find alternative ways of doing things and coping with the injury - what’s that saying ” Necessity is the mother of invention”? Where there’s a will…should I risk a bad pun there? No, maybe not.
Son & husband hogging the computers last night so I did other things. Out tonight tho’, but NOT wearing my favourite party shoes and NOT having too much to drink so that I can’t control the crutches!
Have fun with your new toy.
Sam