I can walk! I can walk! I can walk!!!!

Ellendra · Post: # 86587Post **Ellendra** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:45 am

Last summer I suffered a kidney infection, which, by the time it was
brought under control, had spread to and destroyed the muscles in my
lower back. I've been in a wheelchair since then.

While I have been doing therapy to try and rebuild those muscles,
progress has been incredibly slow. Until yesterday. I got up in the
morning, waited for the sledgehammer to hit . . . and waited . . . and
waited . . .

It never hit. I was able to get around the house mostly without pain.
If I stood for too long it would start to hurt, but it was more of a
"seriously overdid it at the gym" type of pain, rather than the "being
beaten with a sledgehammer" that I had been experiencing for almost 8
months now.

I'll probably use the wheelchair for a bit longer until I get more of
my strength back, but for now, I'M MOBILE AGAIN!!!!!!!!

*does happy dance*

Milims · Post: # 86590Post **Milims** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:28 am

Yay!

Hope you make lots of positive steps quickly!

baldowrie · Post: # 86592Post **baldowrie** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:11 am

having spent a year in a wheelchiar too and got back to walking

IT'S GREAT isn't it!

hamster · Post: # 86595Post **hamster** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:32 am

Yaaay!!

Shirley · Post: # 86597Post **Shirley** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:49 am

Great news!!!!

Martin · Post: # 86598Post **Martin** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:16 am

well done! It's things like walking that you never appreciate until you lose the ability to do them!

baldowrie · Post: # 86599Post **baldowrie** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:30 am

Martin wrote:well done! It's things like walking that you never appreciate until you lose the ability to do them!

Can I just say...never a truer statement has been made

marshlander · Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:38 am

Martin wrote:well done! It's things like walking that you never appreciate until you lose the ability to do them!

ditto, keep it up!

Arimiel · Post: # 86609Post **Arimiel** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:01 am

Woow.. congratulation!!!!!

red · Post: # 86611Post **red** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:04 am

Russian Doll · Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:54 am

congrats hun

mrsflibble · Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:57 am

woot!!!

Millymollymandy · Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:03 pm

That's just wonderful.

It makes my malingering foot (after a fracture and bad sprain) seem pathetic in comparison - but at the same time I know how great it is to be able to walk again, even though I was only using crutches for 2 months.

gigglybug · Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:19 pm

Well done

snapdragon · Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:36 pm

Congratulations - you must have put a lot of work into those muscles - brilliant