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Living with PN, do you find yourself retreating from life?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Mar 5 10:44am | Replies (144)Comment receiving replies
@frankmoore
I feel a little oink, oink today. Bring on those injections. I also have had a love of hiking, my brain says yes you can my body says do you remember how sore you were when you fell on the front porch. I still want to. Glutton for punishment. I push myself anyway. I already had p/n before my back surgeries and then I developed drop foot to boot. I wear an afo brace at work, but not around the house. I mow my lawn, grocery shop pretty much what I want. Thank God my drop foot is in my left leg or I probably wouldn't be driving. I cannot work from a ladder anymore but I still climb for the experience. I guess I'm a little defiant. My bigger concerns is in crowds as people can cause problems as I have a hard time dodging them I cannot move quickly out of the way. Keep up your exercises, that does help me. You take care sir and have a good day !
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@lockmith Your bigger concern is my biggest concern, although I'm wondering if I'm in denial here. I have fallen twice in the last four months, both times alone in my own kitchen, and they were hard falls. Admittedly, I have avoided crowds this whole time, because as with you, any contact, no matter how light, could be my...well...downfall. I appreciate the nudge to keep up the exercises - I need that accountability. Prayers for your wellbeing and safety -
Barb
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Good morning, @lockmith
You are living proof of Twyla Tharp's claim that "Age is not the enemy. Stagnation is the enemy." I'd like to believe it's also true that p/n* is not the enemy. Surrendering to p/n is the enemy.**
Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)
*p/n: I like your use of l.c. for PN. It sort of puts the disease in its place. 🙂
**I realize it's easier for me to use words like "surrender," since my PN is large-fiber: mucho balance difficulties, but no pain. Not surrendering, for PNers with pain, isn't so easy.