I have a small vegetable rack on wheels to store my immediate needs - medication, wipes, appointment cards, kindle, phone, ipod, long shoehorn etc. which I pull allong behind me around the house by using the shoehorn reversed!
I have also found that 'stick clips' at my local disabled shop help me to 'park' both my sticks and the grabber - they just clip onto the sticks, and allow you to park the sticks on a table edge etc. I think they cost me about £2 each - £6 well invested.Graham
will look for the stick clips if I had a pound for each time my sticks fall over I would be very rich by now it drives me and my poor husband mad as I cant bend down to pick them up
I have been picking things up by stretching my operated leg out behind me as I bend down, that was 90 degree rule not broken!
It's worse when your grabber falls down, and you wish you had a grabber to get it back
Search on Amazon (or other disabled product sites) for "walking stick clip" if you want to see them.
A similar search for "vegetable rack trolley" turns up all sorts of vegetable racks on wheels.
If you wear a garment with large kangaroo pocket it also helps to carry things
Love the way people think outside the box to make life a bit easier while they are recuperating!
One of the things that made my life a bit easier was to buy 2 grabbers (1 up and 1 downstairs) and I tied bit of string on the handles and hung it from the crutch(es) if I went in to another room. Because you can always guarantee you drop something in one place when your grabber is in another!
If I needed to bring small things downstairs like my phone pills etc down stairs I use a small messenger bag (cross body).
Staying as independant as possible is important and essential when you live alone.
Thanks too for the info on the clips perhaps Occ therapy should hand these out with the crutches?
Plus you made me smile - pulling your veg trolley with a shoe horn - love it!
Linnet x
I used a small camera bag which i could hang over my head / shoulders to put small items into.
I also found out that I could slip an insulated travel mug (no handle) into my jeans pocket to carry a tea/coffee the short distance from the kitchen to the lounge.
Thanks for that Linnet.
I just thought it would be a good idea to share some of my ideas that I found useful, and see if there were any other ideas out there.
How resourceful we are when pushed . I'm not alone, but hate putting any extra strain on my wonderful wife, she has enough to do already - the work she does in the house, the things around the house that I cannot do now, and the extra things I need doing for me that I cannot manage (socks for instance) due to the LTHR.
Graham
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You can use a belt or scarf to hoist your leg into bed.
barbeque tools double as a grabber tool, and a covered
plasticbottle split to open with ties on can work as a sock
aid if you don't want to buy a sock aid, or don't have someone
to help you. And I love the one today where a plastic bag on
the foot enables you to put on your own TEDs.
Cathie
My wife! Tony
Absolutely.
My wife gets my vote too - especially as it was our 40th wedding anniversary this year.
Ok then my husband! He's been wonderful after both my ops.
Linnet x
Congratulations Graham on your 40th to you and your wife. Ours was last year.
Linnet x