Getting up off the floor again

Started 21 January 2025 · 19 replies · 191 hearts · read 2.6k times

OllyReading, UK · 21 January 2025

1.5 years ago

Getting up off the floor again — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

The thing I have not been able to find anywhere is how people manage this when the week has no fixed shape at all.

The arrangements are the hard bit for me. Nothing medical has been difficult; the organising has been relentless.

I have a plan for the ordinary weeks and no plan at all for the unusual ones, and the unusual ones are where everything has gone wrong.

I will come back and say what I settled on, in case it is useful to the next person asking this.

NikoTbilisi, GE

My reviews are twice a year and I prepare properly for both, and they are the most productive appointments I have ever had.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

I am going to redirect us back to the original poster, who has not had a chance to answer any of the questions put to them.

17me too 9

EdwynNewcastle, UK

I found this circle because everywhere else assumed I was thirty-five and had never had a hip replaced.

PietPretoria, ZA

What surprised me was how much I have enjoyed the strength work, having never done anything of the sort in my life.

BrimHalifax, UK

Being taken seriously was the first hurdle. I had two appointments where my age was treated as the whole of the answer.

11me too 4

BertrandToulouse, FR

Coming back at two years to say it has been uneventful, that my mobility is better than it was, and that I am glad I asked rather than assuming I was too old.

OttilieCheshire, UK

Nothing here is medical advice, and at my stage the interactions with everything else genuinely need somebody qualified looking at the whole list.

OsmanAnkara, TR

No advice, just company. Here if it helps.

OllyReading, UK

I would gently say do not accept everything being attributed to age. Mine was, twice, and something specific was found both times.

NikoTbilisi, GE

#10

Somebody here said that the aim at our stage is capability rather than anything else, and I have used that framing at two appointments since.

LucasSão Paulo, BR

#11

What helped was one clinician who took a view of the whole of me rather than four people each managing one thing.

EdwynNewcastle, UK

#12

I found the online material almost entirely aimed at people thirty years younger, which is why this circle matters to me.

PietPretoria, ZA

#13

The falls conversation was worth having explicitly, and it produced a practical set of things I would not have thought of.

14me too 5

BrimHalifax, UK

#14

Building on what Edwyn wrote rather than answering the original question.

My experience is that this has been straightforward and that it needed more careful setting up than it would have at forty.

BertrandToulouse, FR

#15

Picking up Edwyn’s point rather than starting a new one.

What I got right was bringing my daughter to the first appointment, because two sets of ears is worth a great deal in nine minutes.

OttilieCheshire, UK

#16

The bloods I asked for turned up a deficiency that had probably been there for years, and correcting it changed how I felt more than anything.

OsmanAnkara, TR

#17

Something practical: everything is in one place with a written note of what it is for, so that anybody could pick it up and understand it.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#18

Facilitator note: nothing in this circle is medical advice and the practical arrangements still need agreeing with whoever prescribes for you.

18me too 8

NikoTbilisi, GE

#19

Holding this with you rather than answering it.