[blparent] Question about Crutches
Jo Elizabeth Pinto
jopinto at msn.com
Tue Oct 30 03:40:06 UTC 2012
I was playing with my black Labrador in the snow we had last week. She
likes to run like a racehorse when it snows, with her nose down and her face
all white and frosted. She slammed into me at full speed and unfortunately,
my knee took the hit.
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.
-----Original Message-----
From: Veronica Smith
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Question about Crutches
Oh, you would not be able to use the Roll About with a knee injury. Bummer!
Good luck, perhaps they can just put it in a brace. Now, exactly what were
you doing when this occurred?
-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 7:44 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Question about Crutches
Probably not a broken bone, but I got some kind of a soft tissue injury.
I'm hoping time and ice, along with the knee brace the urgent care tech gave
me, will heal it up. But they're recommending that I go get an MRI so we
can see if I tore the meniscus, which is cartilage.
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.
-----Original Message-----
From: Veronica Smith
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 7:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Question about Crutches
Jo Elizabeth, what the Dr gave me since I couldn't see was something they
called a Roll About. You kneel on it, my broken foot hung over the back.
It has handles to hold onto with hand breaks. You cann ajust the height so
you kneel at a reasonable level. Did you break something?
-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 1:04 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Question about Crutches
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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