[blparent] Question about Crutches

[Lisamaria Martinez]

Not sure with a guide dog...but, with a cane you could keep the cane
in your fingers and your upper palm while both your hands are on the
hand bars of crutches. It was tough and took a lot of energy to walk
outside the house this way. I ended up only using one crutch on the
opposite side of the injury when I went out.  I got pretty good with
using my cane in my left hand.



On 10/29/12, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
> I know this is a strange question, but have any of you ever been on
> crutches?  How did you manage it since you couldn’t see where to place the
> crutches before you took a step?  I’m asking because last Thursday night, my
> guide dog was off leash, running around like a maniac in the snow.  She
> loves to play in it, especially during the first good snowfall of the
> season.  She tried to run past me and ended up slamming into my knee,
> bending it in a way I had no idea it could even go.  By the time I went to
> an urgent care clinic near my house on Friday afternoon, my knee was swollen
> and hot to the touch, and it burned as if I’d set a hot pan from the oven
> right on it, only the burning was on the inside.  The urgent care tech said
> I probably tore my meniscus, which is a thin sheet of cartilage that keeps
> the bones in the knee from rubbing against each other.  She gave me a knee
> brace and told me to use ice and anti-inflammatory drugs over the weekend.
> I saw a marked improvement from Friday to Saturday, but now it’s kind of
> stalled out.  I’m hoping time and ice will do the trick, but the recovery
> time if I have to get arthroscopic surgery to mend the tear is a month to
> six weeks, with crutches for at least some of that time.  I can’t even
> imagine how I would navigate with crutches, even if there weren’t toys
> everywhere.
>
> Thanks,
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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