caretaker

It could always be worse. My friend picked me up and I went shopping in the grocery store today without the walker; (just used a cart), went for a beer at the Hungarian and lost some money on Nevada tickets, so it was what passes for a fun day. It's too early to be sure, but there's a chance of going for fish and chips tomorrow.

Piff Poff

Get well Caretaker

Rete

Hoping you get out tomorrow for your fish and chips. It's Friday Fish Fry!

Want me to send you up a 1000 pc jigsaw puzzle?

Nutek

BEVS

OK. So what's the current deal on the crunched parts ?

caretaker

I'm getting better, expanding the limits of what I can do all the time. Tomorrow I think I'll try to walk 4 blocks to the corner store for lottery tickets without the brace, but using a cane. I should know by the end of my street how it's going. I have a tentative ok from the surgeon to drive, but he was a bit iffy about it. The initial prediction on the day of my surgery was 3 months to get out of the brace, and another 3 months to get back to work, and so far we're on time. Having heavily taxed my 3 friends who've been giving me rides over the past 3 months I'll soon have to get my van back from my friend's place and get a new battery in it (remember how I hurt myself just before a wicked cold snap?) and then we can bump my physio appointments up from 2 per week to 3 or even 4. The undeniable sexual tension between my physiotherapist and myself has nothing to do with this, she mentioned increasing appointments because of my knee. I came really close to buying a sword cane 3 or 4 times recently, still may. I blame it on privateer ancestry.

scrubbedexpat094

I'm very, very late to this thread Caretaker. Sorry to hear you've been through the wars. Hoping you are continuing to make good progress.

And now I understand the sword cane comment on another thread

caretaker

I've been bumped up to 4 hrs/day/5 days per week of physio for the last month. Sometimes I'll get off early, but no pain no gain. Just on the strength of the brand name I bought an exercise bike off Varagesale for $25. It's a Monark and so are the ones in the gym at physio, but naturally mine is smaller, cheaper, and not as smooth. Still seems to be a good quality machine though. The assclown I bought it from didn't think to post a picture of the damaged chain guard or mention it, but I just taped it up. He also had a van in his yard I thought about buying until my friend pointed out the sticker indicating that it had been totalled once, but he wasn't going to tell me about that either. I got the impression he was paying a mental cost for being successful and upwardly mobile. Despite his seemingly good circumstances I guess I pity him. After dealing with a load of banking, estate, and institutional stuff over my sister's death I just stopped doing it for awhile. As necessary only for a little while anyway, and I haven't even started clearing things out or categorizing them yet. The Salvation Army is in for a windfall. I might put my walker outside in front of the bike, set up a big laptop and headphones and call it my Hillbilly Peloton.