Basically, Stuff and Nonsense

By Jan Chait Last week, I said I would tell you this week what your doctor should be doing and how often, but it will have to wait another week. Instead of writing, I ended up spending a lot of time trying to get past a software glitch to finish up something that should have been in yesterday. I won't get into the details, but it took hours. Hey! I reached a goal! I was getting onto my scooter just fine from every place except the desk chair, but I finally cleared that hurdle one day last week. Normally, I get onto the scooter by putting one hand on the seat, the other on the tiller, and lifting myself up to the seat. After spending a week in the hospital, however, my strength was gone. My Sweet Baboo found and dusted off my transfer board, which I used to get to and from the scooter and the bed, and from the recliner to the scooter. In the bathroom and from the desk chair, I devised a way to get onto the scooter that didn't entail using my leg (which was the biggest problem; there's not much wrong with my upper-body strength). For a while, I could only take showers when Baboo was home because he had to help me get back onto the scooter. I tried the transfer board once, but it was too slippery in the shower. To help with that darned leg that wouldn't lift me up high enough to get onto the scooter's seat, I also got hylan G-F 20 (brand name Synvisc) injections in my knees. I have osteoarthritis and it's bone-on-bone in my knees. The hylan provides lubrication so I can straigh...
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