Nope, only fall I have had recently was the cat tripping me winding around my ankles, and I did that when I was healthy too. Just corroding joints and impingements. [and pseudogout in the feet.]
Actually the silly thing is that when I was growing up I had weak ankles that gave me trouble. Now the only joints south of my waist that aren’t screwed up are my damned ankles… sigh
I’m a bit confused here. Why would your doctor “take away” your crutches and make using a wheelchair your only option for ambulation? Especially if the reasoning for it is “preservation of your joints, etc.” in your legs, ankles and feet. If you would be spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair, what quality of life difference would the health of those joints make? Wouldn’t it make sense to have both the crutches and the wheelchair made available to you, so you could decide when you (and your body) needed a break and you could use the chair? They are myriad health benefits to be had from continuing to use the crutches, I don’t need to tell you that. Why is it either/or?
And as far as taking the doctors word as gospel, my experiences have been to always take what they say/recommend with a grain of salt. If I had listened to what the doctors had told me I “needed” to do, I would have been catheterizing myself years ago, completely needlessly. The doctors told me all this scary stuff was going to happen to me if I didn’t do what they were recommending, but I knew better. And time has proven me right. None of the dire kidney, bladder or urinary problems that were predicted have come to be for me, not in the slightest. And, by deciding not to cath, I have avoided all the chronic problems and issues that such procedures bring.
So tell me, what do you feel is the best thing for you here?
LOL Helar isn’t going to actually take them away, he means that unlike now where I will go into a convenience store, or do a small amount of walking [like to go get a carton of milk or something from a regular grocery] where I would now just grab my sticks and ambulate my way in gently, I would instead haul the chair out of the momvan, unfold it, get into it and wheel my way in. Moving around in my house is ok, he just wants me to use the chair when I am not at home. The less I irritate my joints, causing bone spurs and degredation of cartillage the longer I can do my own chair transfers, and move a step or three to get into a shower and brush my teeth standing up. When you have an 800 sq foot 2 bedroom house, using my chair in the bathroom would involve ripping walls out. When my feet take me out, getting to the toilet becomes fairly problematic so I am seriously good at interpreting sensation and hammering the colchicine down to prevent a flare.
Best thing for me other than a whole body transplant, would actually to move into a custom built fully accessible house and plant my ass in a wheelchair 99% of the time. That [the moving part] is not going to happen, second best would be to use a chair anytime I am away from the house. I actually trust this doc, he is the only one that actually listened to me and diagnosed me properly after 15 years of fighting the Navy and being considered a hypochondriac, and munchausens and being told to my face that I wouldn’t have joint problems if I didn’t sit on my ass popping bonbons and watching TV all day [the navy ortho didn’t bother listening when I told him that the ortho that did my knee work 15 years previously told me flat out that in 10 years I would have issues from the sports injuries already suffered. I started having joint problems when I weighed 130 pounds at 5’7" tall and was walking rounds all night as a security guard 5 years before I had a consult with that idiot.]