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MMM, not easy is it...lets hope you don't your crutches kicked from under or an elbow in the ribs or a push in the back you because you walk too slow as so many other disabled persons get.

MMM are your shoulders and hands/wrists extremely painfull? Use some pipe insulation foam round the handles to help if your hands hurts.

oh and MMM - try not to hop on your good leg too much - my mum did her good leg in because she was favouring her bad leg.....

baldowrie wrote:MMM are your shoulders and hands/wrists extremely painfull? Use some pipe insulation foam round the handles to help if your hands hurts.

They were with the rubbish crutches I was issued with at the pharmacy, but a lovely lady (who has a mobility problem herself) came from a long way away to bring me some English crutches which she had spare and they are moulded/designed for the palm of your hand, and they are great!

I couldn't believe I got bloomin' callouses on the inside of my thumbs in just 4 days (with the rubbish crutches). Who designs these things?

probably marathon running men!

Yes the new moulded crutches are more comfy...handle designed in Lincolnshire (Spalding to be exact) by a chap whose wife broke her hip and found the traditional walking stick torture to use. He took a mould of her hand and made a resin handle to attach to a wooden stick. Then friends became interested but he used the same mould so they were not so comfy, but better. Local hospital saw the design and the rest is history and they are now in every hospital and a more general shape.

Proto types first sold in Baytree nurseries, Spalding, for £12 a stick and ONLY in right hand to begin with..I bought one

I found using padded cycle gloves ( the gel type ) very good when I was on crutches, save the old hands a bit.
If any of you guys are interested google PHAB. they are a brilliant group for both disabled and abled to get together. lots of support and friends to make etc. Our family have been involved in some way with them for about 30 years.
Oh and on the note of being shoved out of the way through being a bit slower.. a loud OUCH does the job nicely

Yes I was using my old weight training gloves which are padded and fingerless! I still use them for doing the stairs on my bum - I can't do them on crutches - they are wooden, steep and there is a big turn in them - and I get vertigo just thinking about it.

Still it is not so bad now as my muscles are adjusting to the crutches and holding one leg up off the ground and the other leg being the weight bearer.

Off to have more xrays this pm so I'd better finish up on the forum and then get some lunch. See ya later!

Dear Chadspud,

I've just got a new mooncup too. By the end of my period I found it much easier to get out because I learnt to push a little. Just like it says to do in the leaflet, it really does help.

Taking it out I tend to tilt it a little so it gently and smoothly pops out.

Not sure I can offer advice on the nails.

Thanks QB - have had some practice now too and I try to fold it slightly on its way out - seems to do the trick lol

I give the base a good hard pinch and then twist slightly on exit, i find that works for me.

If you have a look at vaginapagina, or at the menstrual cups community on LJ, there's a few different ways of entry and removal. One of the things suggested for a particularly difficult removal is to ease a finger up, hook it over the rim of the cup and pull gently.

Warning: i tried this once, and it looked like mass murder had been committed in the bathroom...

the.fee.fairy wrote: Warning: i tried this once, and it looked like mass murder had been committed in the bathroom...

TMI and

Not a witch are u Baldowrie? Since your little quip the other day, I have been unable to get off the toilet for long with very bad diarrohea and the most excruciating stomach cramps! Hopefully its just a coincidence - otherwise, what goes around can come back round lol.

ahhhhhhhhh well you never know

Actually a bug that's going round, had it myself!

Has anyone had a "period party" to celebrate their daughter starting their periods? I have heard some people having them.

My daughters are a few years away from puberty but I think it would be nice; or do you think it would seriously harm them?

I was talking with my sister who thought the idea was a bit strange, but then again she has never used the mooncup+Wemoon pads I bought her for her birthday.

Menstruation can be such a big part of women's lives I think that the start of it should not go unnoticed.

think that would depend on the child, she may not want it broadcast

Isn't that what a batmitzvah is? Well, sort of. Maybe all cultures ought to have a 'welcome to adulthood' party. I guess it depends on your relationship with your daughters and if you discuss this with them before hand.

I remember trying desperatley to let no-one know that I had started my period, I got my mum to take me to the shop and told her on the way in the car, she did the whole 'welcome to the club' thing which was bull, then she told me to 'hurry up' while I was standing in the feminine hygiene isle staring blankly at the miriad of options.