March 2024
Dear Family and Friends, I have been waiting for something exciting to happen so I could write about it in my monthly letter, but it hasn’t happened yet, so I’ll go ahead and share what I do have of the mundane things in my daily life. I‘m trying to use my Buddy leg more now that the sore on the end of the stump has healed. Mostly just going around in the house with my 3 wheel walker, but occasionally outside too. When I need to get into a car, I use the ramp but not with the walker because of the slick ramp surface. Instead, I leave it at the top and grasp the handrails and carefully walk myself down putting pressure on the heel of my Buddy to keep the knee from buckling under me. Then True or someone else has to bring the walker to the bottom of the ramp for me to use to get to the car. Sounds easy enough, but it’s tricky because the rails end a foot short of the end of the ramp, leaving me with two steps to do before I can transfer ...