From Retirement medical issues

I had a very bad fall on January 28, 2019. Have been bedridden ever since. Very tough time. I hurt my knees and can’t stand even with a walker. The only way I get to the wheelchair or the toilet is with the Hoyer lift.

It was my worst fall ever. Standing at my walker I was too tired and weak an hour after my bedtime medicine to move my right foot closer to the bed to sit back down. The caregiver tried but she couldn’t do anything to help me. After a very long struggle my arms collapsed and I slumped down into the walker. My hands were still on the grips but my legs were bent under me. Then I couldn’t hold the grips any more and all my weight went onto my bent knees. My right leg was somehow wrapped around the outside of the front right walker leg. The caregiver called Mary and she came. They tried to lift me but they couldn’t. When they let me down a little, because  my legs were wrapped around the walker leg my body weight was not just on my knees which had been bent too far for a long time but also on my genitals. When the paramedics finally arrived they lifted me onto the bed, with some struggle untangling me from the walker. I could move all my body parts. My blood pressure was 118 over something. The most pain was in my right knee. There was no reason to believe anything was broken. All the pain was in the knees that were bent too far for too long under 155 pounds of pressure. We told them I didn’t want to go to the ER to be examined.

I’ve been in bed ever since. I can’t stand with my walker.  Caregivers have been able to swivel me from lying in bed to sitting on the side of the bed and back again. I can now sit up comfortably for about two hours at a time.

Some caregivers, but not all, have been able to use the Hoyer lift to transfer me to the wheelchair and the toilet. A physical therapist came to the house six times to do leg stretches and to start me practicing standing with the walker again. Progress is slow but very encouraging.

[Note 1/13/21-It quickly proved to be a dead end. I could not stand, even with the walker.]