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May 09, 2005
Cane Shopping
I bought a cane today. It’s cute. It’s green with small pink flowers on it. It’s the first one I ever bought and I had all these questions for the people at the store. It’s for my grandmother. I called her yesterday and found out she has started using one b/c of her hip. Specifically, she has been using my grandfather’s old orthopedic canes. They are all of the aluminum, basic orthopedic variety you get from the doctor. I mean, how not cute!! I can tell she isn’t exactly excited about using one. That I can more than understand. So while I don’t imagine anything will ever make her feel good about it, I hope a more fashion conscious cane (or at least more feminine one) will make the process amusing and/or a topic of conversation at her bridge game and/or let her feel prettier while using it. I mean, if I had one I would want it to be interesting and attractive. I guess that’s why they make different colored casts and band-aids, etc.-anything to make the process more bearable. Plus, this one will be HER size. I cannot believe she is using my grandfather’s. For the record, since this is a community of athletes, I would like to add that my grandmother would fit right in. She played basketball back when girls had to wear long skirts and they weren’t allowed to run all the way up and down the court (there were different zones and more people on the court than today). Now she is a huge college basketball fan and an only slightly less huge internet geek (like all of us).
My knee is getting better. It doesn’t hurt when I walk or squat. Thank goodness. I was having these anxiety attacks about it never getting better-what if I had permanent knee damage? It was painful and I was so discouraged to have a repeat knee injury. Now I can move on to worrying full-time about my calf, which wasn’t getting enough attention before :) and my bunion-a constant bother. (Can you see why I want to marry an orthopedist?) I have no way of knowing if the calf is healing since it has never hurt when I walked even at the beginning of the injury. Hmmmm…Eight more days to worry about it. Honestly, this is why you can’t let me get bored. Last summer my parents asked, “Why are you so obsessed with your foot and knee? What you need is to start school!”
I hate Mondays. Let the fun begin.
Posted by Audrey at May 9, 2005 09:37 AM
Comments
hang in there audrey. 8 more days and back to close t stops. of course, if it tooks longer, it would be a convenient excuse to get a very fashion conscious cane.
Posted by: Pat at May 9, 2005 10:28 AM
Its hard not to think about an injury. When my ITB was hurt, I thought about it all day long and freaked when it started to hurt walking down stairs. Maybe its how your body focuses its healing power on it.
Hold tight. You are doing fine.
Posted by: Jon in Michigan at May 9, 2005 10:59 AM
You had me fooled for the first four sentences, I was thinking, "Are her injuries really that bad?" I'm glad they aren't. And your grandmother sounds really cool, by the way.
Posted by: Alison at May 9, 2005 12:03 PM