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TKR at 81, living alone, and with balance difficulty: a good idea?
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@ray666 You said: "I was absolutely delighted when I learned that my insurance would no longer cover my time in the rehab facility".
I had a female friend say the same thing when she was "assigned" a "rehab" facility after her second major back surgery! lol.
I took care of her for the first round, but was unable to fly to be with her when she suddenly had to have a revision. I felt really bad for her stuck in that facility.
It truly warms my heart when you say you were "inspired" to get on the recumbent bike. Never stop for more than a day...
I was athletic all my life. If I can't stay active and going, may as well "take me outback and shoot me".
I am deathly afraid of being stuck sitting or confined to a wheelchair.
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Hi, @slarson14
"I am deathly afraid of being stuck sitting or confined to a wheelchair."
Me, too. That's it, isn't it, the rock-hard center of our worst fears, having to so radically accommodate our disease that we lose all sense of who we are. I'm contesting some of this right now. I lost my partner last year. That's why I'm living alone. I'm 81, reasonably healthy, but 81 is still 81. I I have my neuropathy with its related balance challenges. Those balance challenges, such as they are, have had limited impact on three-quarters of my life, but they proved sufficiently challenging to necessitate my quitting my day job. Tote all that up and what have you got? Me, lately having some difficulty recognizing myself. Me? Oh, where have you gone? Identity? You little devil. Where are you when I most need you? LOL
Ray (@ray666)