Okay, now you're just taking the piss....

[davidgillon]

After all that muttering and whingeing about the weight of my chair, I drove into town yesterday and stopped at a traffic light next to someone using a lay-by to load a manual chair into the back of their car. It was a lightweight manual chair, and to completely take the piss at what I'm putting up with, he was holding it in one hand at arms length while he took the wheels off..... I tried later, and even with my stronger arm I can't quite lift the chair off the ground one-handed, never mind hold it at arms length!

And I was so busy muttering to myself about the state of the pavements - yes, the cobbles look very picturesque, but did you have to cobble <i>every</i> damned entrance that crosses the pavement? - that I rolled straight past where I was going and only realised a hundred yards further on! *headdesk*

I also started the prescribed physio exercises for my shoulder yesterday, and it's all very well saying 'don't push it so far that it hurts', but if the first indication that it hurts is when you shriek in pain then the boundaries are going to take some working out. Given the way my shoulders felt this morning, I opted for crutches for my trip into town.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

<annoying mother>These town journeys are partially by car, right? If not, then I suggest doing that if you can, because you don't want the lack of a car to require you to wheel further than you're capable on a particular day.
</annoying mother>

Learning the limits is the very hardest thing. The thing about the intermediate sensations is I've spent so long trying to ignore the feedback (all pain, so what's new?) that I don't seem able to notice them.

[davidgillon]

The estate where I live has one entrance/exit and that opens onto a particularly steep hill. It's marginally wheelable downhill (needs foot on the ground braking), absolutely not wheelable uphill and not sensibly walkable (I can do it if I absolutely have to, but it's not something remotely repeatable). So if I want to go anywhere then it pretty much has to be by car. If I talk about using crutches or chair to go somewhere, I almost always mean after I drive there.

And learning limits? Absolutely!