Becoming Wheelchair Bound
Original Post: I have had a sharp decline this year. I'm barely able to walk at night with my walker, without my braces on. I have a wheelchair. I'm getting a commode chair and a shower chair with a bench. I'm getting a nurse's aide to help me with the shower and dressing. I just got a bi-pap machine. It's all overwhelming me. I want to stay in my home, but plan for the future. I know I'll be wheelchair bound some day and the reality terrifies me.
Additional Post: Use a wheelchair now when you can get in and out of it as you need to. Don’t wait until you have to be in one most of the time. I have had an electric scooter for 18 years now. I don’t like sitting on it but it sure gets me loads and loads of places that I could not without it and it saves me wasting energy. Without it my life would have been so limited. Aids are there to help us manage our energy levels so we can do more of what we want. I know the changes are hard to take.
Another Post: I love my scooter and it takes me everywhere. Nothing slows me down. I've been places I didn’t think I'd ever be able to go again.
Another Post: Start using your wheelchair now. I fought using mine for the longest time, but looking back I wasted a lot of strength doing that. Once I adjusted to seated life? I had tons more energy to DO things and enjoy life rather than struggle with pain.
Dr. Bruno’s Response: All I can say is to walk is human, to roll divine! You may be wheelchair-bound, you may be Alabama-bound. But no one need ever be "confined" to a wheelchair. A wheelchair does exactly the opposite of confinement: it opens up your entire World!
Wheel Chair “Bound” The Freedom to Roll? “Divine”
Get a head start and get a power wheelchair for distance before you need it so that you can conserve and never be "confined."