Good news, bad news

Good news: I've been released by my physical therapist to only use the cane. I'm off the walker both inside and outside, unless I'm in a busy environment where I feel I need it to keep from being trampled. Bad news: I got on one of those boards where you slide and do leg presses today at physical therapy. The mount/dismount is somewhat tricky, and I wasn't quite ready for it, because I pulled a part of my quadriceps muscle up on the upper part of my right (operant) thigh, and it really hurt. My therapist did massage it, and it helped quite a bit, but I'm limping a bit, and it hurts to stand up. It's almost exactly the spot I hurt on my left leg earlier this month when I stood up from the dinner table. My quads are always weak, but especially now, after surgery, and they're just not cooperating with me, even though we've worked a lot on strengthening both. But this, too, shall pass, I'm sure.

In the meantime, I've already transferred all the basic items I had in my walker bag (things like my handicapped placard, lip balm, house keys, and a small planner) to my smaller sling backpack. Time to put the walker away for now. Yay!

A little do-it-yourself was in order

Since there was one night I accidentally stepped in dog hack-up (fortunately I did not slide, given the walker has wheels in the front, and the brakes in the back would have only done so much), and I am a klutz (which I think we have long established), but I don't want to wake up my roommate by turning on the hall light either, I rigged up my old cane light onto my walker. I had to change the batteries and clean the contacts. I will probably be released from the walker, at least for indoors, on Friday, but it'll help until then, and I can just move it to the cane after that.