Thank you all for your warm wishes and replies - makes me feel better already! That's actually true, too. The surgeon told me I could count on having a few rocky days ahead with the post-surgical pain - but I guess he forgot to tell my leg :hun:. I actually have to think think hard to even feel any pain (although I'm sure the pills I take twice a day are to thank for that). I've had a great day practicing trick moves with the new wheelchair. I've thought of Seth-O often today wishing I had him around to give me some beginner pointers. (P.S. to Seth - that's the really silly part of my saga... I was sitting still at the stop sign. If I'd been moving, probably would have had no problem as I was just staying in the center of my lane and letting the wind move me over a bit and then moving back - no problem there as long as I stayed relaxed on the bars. We've ridden in heavier winds with rain thrown in before. It's that darn stopping that gets me - too short in the legs to touch more than a toe and not strong/heavy enough to catch or hold a fall once it starts.)
Thanks for the suggestions from Scotty and Yazz - I had already installed bags on the sides of my walker - one for good stuff and one for trash so I didn't have to hop my walker to the waste can all day. Also have a bag on back of the wheelchair with books, phone, water, etc. close at hand. I did the garbage back on the leg number but used Press and Seal around the top to water proof it so I'd have no sticky duct tape residue and it worked quite well.
Dick, no pun intended, huh? Thanks for the thought
. Thanks Raptor for the kind words - ironic that I was worried about you taking chances and sending up prayers for your safety on the forum and here I wipe out standing still! The fickle finger of fate??? Cyncy and Teddie thanks for the good wishes - doggie prayers are truly special! Thanks to all the MO GANG for your thoughts. And, Dear Gene... I promise I will try so very hard to come up with some cookies for Spyderfest...you're so kind to think of it so far ahead - it'll give me time to work on my one footed cooking technique, you ornery guy, you.
Thanks for all the war stories, too, from all you who experienced similar injuries - it's good to know in a few months I'll probably be good as new. Poor David is the one who may not make it - he's picking up the slack right now for me until we figure out how I can run the vacuum and get the laundry downstairs, so his back is already starting to protest. He was a trooper today, though, and helped me strip and re-make the bed, sort and do four loads of laundry; he vac'd while I damp mopped the kitchen floor and stepped and fetched for me whenever I asked. I'm a lucky lady all in all. Guess the three trips to the gym a week have paid off. The therapist came today and was scheduled to come two to three times a week for three to four weeks but "graduated" me today. Said my strength in my arms and legs lets me do pretty much anything I want - 'cept put my one leg down. So I don't have to deal with that anymore until the cast comes off and then the rehab for flexibility starts. Gonna use my new handicapped parking sticker tomorrow to park front row at some restaurant and then the mall! I've convinced David I will need some new "cast friendly" clothes:2thumbs:. Spyderlovers are the best!
