flemmings | (no subject)

I use my rollator for sitting on in restaurants because getting up when I've been immobile for a while can be A Thing. (But I was fine getting up from a restaurant chair after 90 minutes with Petronia last week, which gives me hope.) And I use it for sitting on in my kitchen to rest my back in its occasional fits. If I put the brake on it's sometimes possible to do minor cookery that way. But really the thing is too wide and unwieldy for moseying up to a counter with.

However. I don't always put the brake on, so I can slide about the kitchen, and I'm always very careful how I sit down-- both hands on the arm rests-- but I've always known that one day it was going to roll away from me and that day was today. From which I learn that no, you can't kneel on an artificial knee, or at least not a mere five months after having it put in- and yes, I *can* get up off the floor myself, which means maybe, can it be? I'll be able to have baths again? which is much to be hoped, because yesterday's discovery was that if I take enough muscle relaxants, I can cut my heavy duty anti-inflams down to two a day instead of five or six.