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Legs weakness with Idiopathic Feet Neuropathy
Neuropathy | Last Active: Oct 4, 2024 | Replies (48)Comment receiving replies
Good morning, Barb (@bjk3)
I hadn’t heard about additional Medicare cuts. I happen to be in Medicare limbo at the moment––if not ‘in,’ then on the threshold: tomorrow is the final day of the coverage that I’ve been receiving that’s paid for in-patient rehab (4/17–5/2), and home health, both physical and occupational therapy, 5/3–9/3. I have requested an extension for the very reason you mention: the need to continue with PT, whether physical or occupational (ideally both), chiefly to build and maintain leg strength. I’m pretty good at doing my own stretching, isometrics, etc., but I’m also like most people: my motivation increases tenfold when a therapist puts me through the paces.
Thank you for asking about my sepsis improvement. I’ve better days and less-than-better days. Improving? yes, but hardly by leaps and bounds. However, neuropathy taught me the power of patience; I apply it to my sepsis recovery, and, as with neuropathy recovery, patience works wonders.
My partner and I have also had to be patient with our Colorado weather, but recently, considering the super-hot days we’ve had, patience is beginning to work wonders. Days are still toasty, but the evenings have grown tolerable. I hope you can do the same for where you are.
Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)
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- I am leaving Denver today after a long weekend visit.. What a beautiful state. My stepson said it was hot, but for us easterners, there’s the “but there’s no humidity!” But I’ll tell you that I felt the impact of the altitude difference not only in breathing, but in leg weight and muscles. Of course, some of it could be psychological, fear of change, or the extra extra extra activity my legs got traipsing along with my walker through the Denver and other airports, as well as the Rockies stadium.
I am afraid to check if any insurance changes that Barb mentions impact me for my occasional PT. You put things so perfectly- the guidance the therapists give us builds confidence and security which is a good part of our need to get through this. I know your sepsis threw you a big monkey wrench, and I hope our insurance companies don’t make it harder on us, when the effort we’re putting in this should only help reduce costs of medical care we’d need from terrible falls if we didn’t do our best to stay strong!
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I so hope you will be able to continue with PT & OT. In my case, I would be eligible for coverage for PT every week but my therapist, who owns her own practice and in whose large office space are other providers (OT, chiro, podiatrist, specialty post-op clothing, and a couple more) has had to increase her number of non-Medicare clients whose insurance pays better. That was a long sentence - sorry about that 😉. I really appreciate that she talks openly about the compensatory end of things, and I know she's giving me the real facts since I get "statements" of the billing and coverage provided from my secondary insurance. All this to say, you and others in the Neuropathy group here are absolutely correct when you advise that we all collect as much education about our conditions as we can, and to keep moving.
Patience? Oh, yes ~ much wisdom wrapped up in that little word. On a simple day-to-day basis, keeping at the front of the mind not to be in a hurry for anything - phone, doorbell, any movement that requires swiveling at a 180* angle (or even 90*!).
Good to hear you are doing well, and even the weather is improving -- here, too! Stay safe!
~ Barb