What this does is puts me one step closer to my new life with a new leg...very happy!
Tuesday 12 May 2015
One Step Closer
The Wound Vac was taken off on Monday and like the true negative ninny I am before my appointment I didn't give it a thought, didn't want to be excited to think that today might be the day it came off and dismissed it altogether. Thanks to reverse psychology it worked! Yay!!
What this does is puts me one step closer to my new life with a new leg...very happy!
What this does is puts me one step closer to my new life with a new leg...very happy!
Monday 4 May 2015
One more week
Looks like my wound is healing well enough that I can stop using the VAC by Friday this week. If that happens I could possibly be heading to rehab next week to be casted and start using a prosthetic leg! This is good news indeed!
We were in Vancouver over the weekend and took the kids to Science World, they have a) never been to Vancouver before and b) thrilled to take in some of the sights of the big city. I found getting around in my wheelchair to be a bit daunting and not overly fun but I did manage to get out to Chapters and one of the malls since it was connected to our hotel so not a lot of maneuvering so to speak.
I am finding the hardest part of this whole process, besides losing a limb, is how people will react to seeing me. I have been stared at in the last few months more than I ever have in my life up to now and I guess that is the rub, I was once a normal average looking person and now all of a sudden I am different on the outside, the sad part is I am still me on the inside, I am still the person who once was a competitive swimmer, loved to camp with her family, loved to shop, to hike, to mountain bike, to downhill ski. That is still me but that is not what people see anymore. I do understand that people will always look at me differently but what I do with my life now is up to me and I will eventually get to that place in my own head where I am not bothered by people opening staring at me because I am surrounded by the love of friends and family and they are the ones who will always count. And I plan to swim, camp, shop, hike, bike and ski again, it's a different path I am on but not one that will keep me from doing all that I what to do with this one life I have been given.
We were in Vancouver over the weekend and took the kids to Science World, they have a) never been to Vancouver before and b) thrilled to take in some of the sights of the big city. I found getting around in my wheelchair to be a bit daunting and not overly fun but I did manage to get out to Chapters and one of the malls since it was connected to our hotel so not a lot of maneuvering so to speak.
I am finding the hardest part of this whole process, besides losing a limb, is how people will react to seeing me. I have been stared at in the last few months more than I ever have in my life up to now and I guess that is the rub, I was once a normal average looking person and now all of a sudden I am different on the outside, the sad part is I am still me on the inside, I am still the person who once was a competitive swimmer, loved to camp with her family, loved to shop, to hike, to mountain bike, to downhill ski. That is still me but that is not what people see anymore. I do understand that people will always look at me differently but what I do with my life now is up to me and I will eventually get to that place in my own head where I am not bothered by people opening staring at me because I am surrounded by the love of friends and family and they are the ones who will always count. And I plan to swim, camp, shop, hike, bike and ski again, it's a different path I am on but not one that will keep me from doing all that I what to do with this one life I have been given.
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