Ah sorry I misread your post, you were asking about the SUV prices not the current taxi prices my b -- I'm also in the dark atm and am just waiting to find out
A note to people thinking of doing externals:
unfortunately, there appears to be a bit of a dice roll that goes like this:
- people do externals to avoid drilling the kneecap (and they get external pin scars as the price)
- some people doing externals can handle the pin site pain and can go the full distance with just externals
- But some people (don't know the percentage) cannot tolerate the pin site pain and other things and end up switching to LATN (? wrong name? anyone know?) or internals midway-> ? so I think maybe they just end up drilling the knee cap anyway -> end up with both pin site scars + a drilled in kneecap anyway? Am I misunderstanding? Then you end up with the worst of both worlds, or I missing something?
but when you start, its not clear whether a given person can tolerate externals only the whole duration, so that is what I mean by a diceroll, I don't see how you can predict your response to the pin site pain before starting
Just something to keep in mind, I wonder if anyone has any statistics on this to know the likeliehood of this happening?
Last night I slept the entire night without being woken up by the nearby strip club noise and I didn't hear it at all. I consider myself lucky. Had some great dreams, didn't have pain in my legs during my dreams, which sometimes happens and causes the dreams to become more nightmarish. I hate being disabled in my dreams
I setup my laptop/keyboard on the small desk at montaza and will try it out for gaming and productivity later
legs still just constantly a bit sore everyday, makes clicking harder than before
At some point my clicking was virtually no pain, but it has gone back to being a bit stressful
Although clicking can be stressful, it is probably worth it so far w/ gnail. I mean plenty of times I go to the bathroom, if I have to pick up an object, I temporarily will only be supported by my two legs and one arm on the walker. Is it a problem? I don't think so b/c its weight bearing, I still feel safe.
Probably right now I hate the time damaged/slanted pavement near montaza and the physical therapy center. Look down when you walk, don't be afraid to take a step back to safety if the walker seems wobbly on unstable/not level ground
So maybe people who haven't come yet might be wondering the nurses we keep talking about sometimes by name
There are two nurses who work very closely with Dr. Giotikas, they often come to visit the newer patients especially to help them take are of themselves and teach them how to become independent
When new patients come, they shift their attention alot to the new patients so it is really important to try to become independent as soon as you can -> practice the bed to walker transfer, its safe, worst thing happens is you fall on the bed. One time a nurse had to deal w/ an emergency or something w/ a new patient so myself + another patient had to scramble at the last moment to get to the taxi ourselves with just the hotel staff aid, which turned out to be OK. Just be ready for that after like 1-2 weeks to rely more on yourself + the hotel staff
I do think that the bed -> wheelchair and then wheelchair -> toilet transfers are much much easier than walker transfers for going to the bathroom---but not ideal in the long term (better to practice walking with walker if you are able to). If you are using the wheelchair to transfer to the toilet, it might be easier to remove the toilet seat raiser device if you bought one since it is hard to go from a lower wheelchair elevation to a higher extra raised toilet seat. But if you are on a walker, then an extra raised toilet seat is awesome
There is a male nurse. On very rare occasions he smokes outside when we're outside waiting for a taxi, but its not a problem at all, just move the wheelchair a bit away if the smoke is an issue. He's strong, and has helped me move my stuff lots of times, I appreciate it, I apologize for not planning better and I apologize for bringing too much heavy stuff.
There's also the female nurse who is temporarily seemingly working alot double time and covering for both the administrative assistant (Dora) + doing her normal duties as a nurse. She knows alot of languages (English, Greek, Spanish at least) , puts people at ease, and I can see why Dr. Giotikas hired her
To my ears, Greek when spoken with a deep voice sounds calmly badass/manly. And when in a higher pitched voice, Greek can have a certain crack/pop sounds to it w/ the consonants (ex: parakalo). People are nice and its a good experience, but on the phone I would simplify your English and words (just focus on the main noun and main verb, don't add too many connecting words or you'll just end up confusing someone)
If a Greek person tells you to put "spirit" on a cut (not related to leg lengthening), I think they mean "alcohol"? Maybe the Greek word for alcohol can translate into alcohol or spirits?
Warning: the entrance to the shower section of the bathroom in the non-handicap Montaza room is too narrow to fit in a walker. Tried putting the shower chair straddling the shower section and outside but I couldn't sit on it stably from a walker.
My current solution is to just sit on the toilet and use the hand wash faucet's water to wash my hair by reaching my arms over, but I wonder if there are better solutions?
Any better ideas?
Are you allowed to shower without a walker yet? I probably would stay in the handicap room until then...I guess it would be too slippery to use crutches in the shower
Quote from: thankscience on October 02, 2022, 12:08:37 PMAre you allowed to shower without a walker yet? I probably would stay in the handicap room until then...I guess it would be too slippery to use crutches in the shower
I am only allowed to shower using the walker, and the nurse was trying to help me work out the optimal way to enter and exit the shower in the non-handicap room. However, because the entrance of the shower portion of the bathroom is too narrow for the walker, that is one problem. Another problem is that once inside the shower portion, there is not enough space to actually turn/rotate the walker. In fact it feels like the walker cannot fully expand (by maybe about a cm or so) once inside the shower if you are facing the nozzle. And then finally when you try to exit the shower, its, like before when you tried to enter, still not wide enough to pull it out without folding the walker.
I don't think I will be able to shower without a walker for a long time given that I can't walk unassisted. I think you're right that the crutches would be dangerous inside the shower
I use gnail, I think it should most likely be OK to do the walker folds while standing up but I am going to double check with the nurse later the safest way to do this. I don't feel safe doing this on my own without a nurse for now, need some practice to do this logically
This all makes me wonder if I would even be willing to do the above if I had precise given my heavy weight of 170 pounds and the fact that precise is not weight bearing and I don't think it can support 170 pounds
I am pretty thankful I am using gnail, but I also wish I had been more successful in trying to lose weight, this whole thing would be way easier at my freshman year weight of 130 pounds
I think if you either use a montaza handicap room or use novotel, you can just avoid all the above problems. My instinct is that most people would be happier at novotel, not sure. I think that novotel has more space in the bathroom, not 100% sure but based on the pictures it appears to have more space
the montaza handicap room also has alot of space
I know it's still early days as you are lengthening but I'm surprised it's much of an issue if you are using the nails that support 95kgs per leg
shrug
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