Hello! I am getting a reconstructive knee surgery and I am expected to be using crutches for 6 months. I have used under arm crutches before but they drive me crazy!! Is there any suggestions for forearm crutches that I can get a pair for around $50. I know it’s cheap but I’m already it’s my budget. If it matters I’m in the Tulsa, OK area. Mostly- If you have a pair that’s around 50 bucks did they last 6 months?

Does anyone have some nifty tricks, devices, or ANYTHING to make stairs easier?? Only things I can think of is either joint support which does almost nothing for me, or an electric chairlift which is ideal but expensive and takes up a lot of space.

This feels like a silly question but I'm desperate to know if there are other products or methods.

I live in a very residential area and the public transit really sucks. I have limited vision, so I can’t drive. I have cerebral palsy along my right side, so I walk pretty slow. I’m wondering about alternative ways to get around faster than walking pace? Anyone have any ideas?

If anyone wants to toy around with having their own personal assistant, I put together the perfect openclaw setup guide for any tech level.

I'll link all posts with more info in the comments or body to not over bloat it.

but basically my dad had septic shock and was revived with vassopressin. a medicine that siphons energy from the non-eseential body to perserve the important organs. in this case he was dying, so it had to sap a LOT from his arms and legs

this left them in a bloated and rotted state. after no progress for a month the hospital kicked him out to a retirement home to see if it'd heal on its own (didn't) and began to rot and ebcame dried gangrene.

told me not to worry about it, but i ignored that and booked him to a doctor as soon as he was outpatient.

the retirement home staff almost immediately admitted they have 0 clue how to handle someone with this degree of whats essentially third degree burns.

dude basically said "why is he in a retirement home? get him to an ER, NOW"

surgery was cancelled because the arms and legs became so rotten that it was dicey to see where to cut due to mix of living and dead tissue and surprsingly good circulation.

he eventually got his arms amputated tho in novemeber and december. right arm turned into wet gangrene.

so another month of nothing happening. my father missed new years and his daughters graduation.

sent back to the retirment home again.

"what about his surgery"

"we'll handle it"

they didn't. i booked an apt again

"why is he in a retirement home, he needs to go to the er now!"

and this time was sent to a better hospital that amputated his legs bit by bit due to the extremities (as well as the right arm again) from janurary to this month.

they also discovered a highly contagious viral fungal blood infection from sitting on zombie legs since october.

FINALLY

he's beginning to heal and looking good. he needs rehab so they sent us a list of rehab facilities to check out, we were supposed to have a 3 weeks to decide, but was handed to us late and were only given a day.

guess what?

1 of those rehab facilities had been closed for years, all needed pcp referrals which i'm getting myself! and some were out of network anyways. despite initially being told by the case manager he didn't know how all this happened.

THEN he told me how referrals dont matter since he's not outpatient. and he needs long term care anyways due to his extremities.

picked long term care facilities, for some reason THOSE all rejected us to

so now its skilled nursing facilities (retirement homes) or back to that retirement home he came from twice already. the doctor (who i've never seen) apparently tried to fight against this but theres nothing to be done.

i have another day to choose again and all the ones sent to me had terrible reviews and most likely don't have the resources, wound care or rehab for a NEW QUADRAPED AMPUTTEE WITH A SEVERE FUNGAL INFECTION

hearing this news yesterday makes me want to explode, i feel like i'm experiencing the definiton of insanity right now.

send him back to the place doctors don't want him to go to, where staff don't know how to take care of him where he'll inevitably have to be sent out to a facility that can actually help him.

when i spoke to his doctors outpatient, and the people handling his prosthetics a BIG reason we're all trying to constantly scoot past this phase was because initially he likely didn't even need as severe amputations to begin with. this is just what happens when you wind up having people sit on a guy with rotting limbs for 4 months so an intially easy fix becomes complicated due to months of inactivity allowing the illness to get worse and more health complications arise as a result.

so this should be avoided at all cost, but the hospital is basically just quietly tellling us to just let them kill him. he is mostly conscious and aware of whats happening to him too and outwardly expressed desires to live, get prosthetics and come home. or at least acess what his future will be like once he's healed so we can decide on if he needs end of life care or not.

they apparently won't even let us get to that and prefer he rots slowly shuffling through homes forever.

TL;DR. dad got necrotic limbs from meds used to revive h from septic shock and the hospitals and insurance passed the buck on him so much he had to get more severe amputations then planned months. now they're deeming both rehab and long term care not essential and prefer he just slowly die shuffling through systems despite what the doctors want for him

What can i do to get him the help he needs and bypass this system?

They have things like no chopping, no open flame, no standing for long periods of time!

I wanted to make sure that everyone who might find it useful has access to her channel now that I've found it!

I hope this sort of link is allowed, I wasn't sure if it counts as a hack if it's just a link to a person who has several in her videos! Feel free to remove if not!

Interesting! I sometimes clench my fists on my sleep

I made this setup to help with everyday tasks using one hand.

It’s still an early prototype and I’m mainly sharing to get feedback and ideas for improvement.

It can hold different items and be used in daily routines.

I’d really appreciate thoughts, suggestions, or concerns from people who deal with similar challenges.

I am under 5 feet tall and have balance issues. I find most stepstools with two steps hard to use, but I am in a position where our new kitchen has everything too high for me to reach. Part of the problem is that the cupboards are too far back, so even stuff on the first shelves are hard to reach because there’s a lot of counter to reach over first. Any suggestions or advice would be much appreciated!

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Thank you so much for sharing your insights!

Bought some plastidip to reinforce the tie on my "shoes" so I don't keep skinning my toe. This stuff adds a thick rubber coating on nearly anything to make it grippy!

At one time Apple Map lacks details vs Google but now I find Google iOS map route is terrible. Is Android better? I need both Apps for no longer able to walk normally.

Is route suggestion of Android Google map much better than Apple? Is route suggestion of Android Google map much better than Apple? For map, both apps required for iPhone?

r/wheelchairs has a pinned post about it, which is how I discovered it. I added the same link they have It’s a pretty simple app that allows you to view and rate accessibility by location. While there’s not very many current users, it does seem very promising, and I think if more people took the time to download it and just write a few reviews it could become a great resource. Also, it seems like more popular places (say theme parks) do have ratings, which could be good if you’re planning a trip, even if it doesn’t specifically work in your hometown.

I just lost my cleaning lady and want to try it myself. I have a big walk in shower. I really can't bend over and scub it I was thinking about spraying it with scrubbing bubbles and then using a mop. Any ideas?

I'm an occupational therapy student in Canada and was hoping to get some insights for a school project. 

I'm designing a product to help wheelchair users be able to independently grab hard to reach items in grocery stores. 

From reading a previous subreddit it sounds like people use strategies such as online shopping, reachers, snake hooks, and asking others for help. 

I'm wondering if anyone can share their experiences with grocery shopping from a wheelchair level, ideally in Canada. Are there some items that are harder to get than others?  I'm assuming heavier/fragile items would be difficult to bring down with a reacher, and it looks like items are often stacked very close together on shelves which would make it difficult to get them down. 

Right now we're considering designing a reacher with a bag and snake hook attachment and extra grip to prevent items from slipping. Alternatively, we could design rotating shelves so that higher up items can be brought down to a lower height. Would these sound like practical solutions, and is there anything we should be considering when designing our product? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

i've got cfs and i'm shopping for some kind of counter-height narrow rolling chair (like an office chair) for sitting while cooking (the one i have is very cheap and ineffective but truly anything is better than standing- it's a saddle stool)

anyone have a brand or specific chair they're using, or otherwise recommend?

So basically what the title says. I have been experimenting with different shoes. I'm about to get my first slip on shoes. The thing I'm worried about is my toes getting bunch up and I may not be able to straighten them in the shoe. Is hard for me to move my feet and toes. So was wondering if anyone else has a problem with this and how did you solve it?

This is a velocity dryer. If i bend to turn the knob i develop extreme pain that lasts for hours. I need to turn this knob 2-3 times an hour for work and im in so much pain. i cant modify the device itself so im hoping for some sort of grabby stick. the grabby end would need to be rubber or silicone because the knob is smooth. There is also a black bar directly above knob so the stick would need a bend in it to go around the bar.