Sorry to hear this, Ron.
You've still got treachery on your side. ![Wink ;)](http://forums.sohc4.net/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
I'm counting on it! ![Cheesy :D](http://forums.sohc4.net/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
Ron,I'm sorry to just be catching up on the thread...I really hate to hear of your fall and injury. I was clumbsy the other night going to the bathroom around 4 am. I have a bedroom in the basement and go upstairs to the bathroom. I had socks on to be quieter to not wake anyone. Well, I slipped with my foot on the big step where the stairs makes a turn and is about 1.5 step heights to the other treads. I was falling backwards and caught myself with a loud thud and boom ffom the foot hitting the bottom transition platform step hard. I was majorly sore from the non-fall fall and hit my radius in the right forearm against the door casement. If I hadn't caught myself I would have broken the doir and fell throught it to the concrete floor into the garage. The door would have been a bad thing to break but it is only a luan interior door as the basement room was an add-on build after the house was built in the 60s. Room was added in the 70s with stairs enclosed then. They were bare steps when I was a kid growing up.
so, my bruise is brown turning green so it is still relatively new. My neuropathy has been raging though...so, I can relate to that which you live, just don't know what severity you have. Mine is making dexterity a real problem many days and dressing in anything wtith buttons or even zippers a hard to impossible task.
I will keep you and your family in my prayers as a little help from above never hurts.
Thanks Raf! My bruise was so deep, it didn't show on the surface. Feeling pretty good now, but we installed a stairlift as we'll need it sooner or later. Gotta be careful on those stairs. They are worse at night. I have double banisters in the halls and stairs and motion sensitive nigh lights.
I'm having trouble with buttons on the sleeve, tying a tie. Still OK with zippers. But we know what's ahead.
Funny thing, I've mentioned before but you may not have seen it. A recent trip to a different neurologist resulted in a diagnosis of less neuropathy and more Parkinson's. Irony, Parkinson's is worse than PN, but they have drugs for it. After a week on a low dose of carbidopa/lopidpa, I am controlling my movements a lot better, meaning I'm walking a lot better. My drop foot, which I always figured was part of the PN, may possibly be the PD, as I'm walking a lot better.
In any event, balance is still a problem. PN or PD, doesn't matter. On the sunny side, I bot a high performance "rollator" which is a European designed 4 wheel walker. I can really move with the cheap ones I have. Looking forward to it!
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