# I'm HOME! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689 "2012-06-10T04:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689/21 "2012-06-10T15:59:11Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > Wow! How scary! I’m glad you’re ok. > > How are you adjusting to the loss of one of your legs? What do you do for work and will you be going back soon? I’m the switchboard operator for our local welfare office, and I’m meeting with the HR director of the office next week to discuss coming back. I’m adjusting pretty well, I think. I really didn’t have any long period of self-pity or despair. A couple of days, maybe, but really…you have two options when something like this happens. You can just give up and spend the rest of your life in bed, or you can work your butt off to bring things back to some semblance of normal. I always thought, before this happened, that I’d be the former, but I surprised myself by ending up being the latter. It’s true what they say…you can pretty much get used to anything eventually. Donning and doffing the thing is a little bit of a pain in the ass, but the alternative (which, for me in this house, is confining myself to bed, basically) is much worse. And when I get the permanent prosthesis (this is the “trainer”, so to speak), the suspension system is going to be different, more secure and less of a pain to maintain, so I have that going for me. The interesting thing is negotiating terrain that I never even had to think about before…you have to really have active balance awareness and control on slopes and uneven ground (like grass in a park or something) because the foot on the prosthesis doesn’t have an ankle joint…whichever way the ground tilts isn’t going to be compensated by your ankle hinging, which means the whole lower leg will be at the angle to gravity that the slope is. Which means leaning back a bit on the downslope and working a little harder to negotiate an upslope. On a flat floor in a house it’s not a problem, but in, say, a convenience store parking lot that slopes to the street, it is. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689/22 "2012-06-10T20:01:29Z")
I’m glad you’re back and better, jayjay - I mised ya! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689/23 "2012-06-10T20:24:16Z")
Wow. I’m so glad you’re getting back to some semblance of normalcy. It sounds like you’re handling this 1,000 times better than I would, so hat’s off. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689/24 "2012-06-11T01:23:17Z")
…Haere Mai mate, welcome home. [An appropriate musical interlude.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQlVmvXAGLI) ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689/25 "2012-06-11T17:36:43Z")
I guess I hadn’t realized you hadn’t already been home for a while. I hope things are getting easier and more comfortable for you. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689/26 "2012-06-11T17:51:20Z")
Wow! What an experience. Glad you’re back, and if you don’t mind sharing, what caused the infection? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689/27 "2012-06-11T17:54:20Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Wow! What an experience. Glad you’re back, and if you don’t mind sharing, what caused the infection? An unnoticed wound. I have peripheral neuropathy and my feet are pretty numb, so when I incurred a wound on the SOLE of my foot where I generally couldn’t see it, I didn’t know until I got sick. I thought the twinges of pain I was feeling in that foot were a new presentation of my neuropathy. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689/28 "2012-06-11T17:57:33Z")
My goodness! It has certainly been a long road for you. I’m glad you are home and hope your adjustment period goes well. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689/29 "2012-06-13T12:13:40Z")
Welcome back. I trust the prosthetic limb can be used to kick the dog/cat/relative off the couch when necessary. And despite what must be excellent service and low premiums, I think I would dump your “Ciccarella Health Plan” as soon as possible. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-home/624689.md?page=1)