Comfort Zone

Ive tried to ignore i even have a Spinal Cord Injury but it caught up wi me  I just wanted to carry on like before but it dont work that way. I walked too much and it hurt, i drank too much alcohol but that hurt my bladder



Time too cool it  and be a good SCI girlie          

I'm very much in the use it or lose it camp.

Knight, I understand you are alone much of the time, but seriously...you need to maintain that muscle tone.  Walk as often as you can, as long as you can.  Learn to fall well from the therapists you use.  

The PT's or OT's should be teaching you how to walk and how to fall.  

Life isn't measured in steps.  There are times I have to use my chair, it is a fight to walk some days but it is a worthwhile fight if you have the ability.  i see too many people throw in the towel then later regrets waht they have done by not walking as much as they could have and gotten those gains.  2 years is only a suggestion. i know people who have return years past the 2 year mark.

Don't give up on yourself at all.  

walking isn't everything but neither is sitting because you are afraid

I added a couple questions to my facebook note! Go check 'em out: www.facebook.com/notes/mony-knight/responses-to-ridiculous-questionscomments/731461180212661

I haven't been to physical therapy in over a month now. I have a new issue which is keeping me from standing, even. I've been to the chiropractor for the issue, and I suppose I should see an orthopedic doctor soon... again. At 15, I tore my lateral ligament in my right knee. Add 4 years of full-time work on my feet, and I now have a shredded meniscus. Boo:( Since my injury, it would partially dislocate when I "walked." Well, the day before yesterday, I really did it! Stood up to pull up my pants and didn't realize my foot was turned; I dislocated it, and now I can't stand without crying. Crap. I'm not sure how bad it really is because it's the weekend, but my femur no longer lines up with my tibia.

I just want to say that as i have complete paraplegia I am unable to stand even with support. I always wished that i could at least walk with crutches and i was quite jealous of people with an incomplete injury.
But i realise from reading posts on this forum that you all have other issues to deal with that i didnt see and it isnt as easy as it seems.

freewheeler, I think a lot of people think completes have it a lot harder than incompletes, but I don't think one would be harder than the other in the ways that we think... I have horrible nerve pain and bladder spasms, and bowel issues too. I wouldn't give up my leg function for anything except maybe pain relief for a day or so! I have challenged myself to not use my legs for any transfers for a day, just curious to see what completes (kind of) go through. Holy cow, was I tired! Also, a lot of people, including a few fellow SCI'd individuals I've met, seem to think that just because someone else with the same injury level as I have regularly walks with crutches/walker, means I can also. I can only do short distances before my legs go, "Nope! We're done!"

(I kinda feel left out of the incomplete section on Apparelyzed sometimes, which is why I'm here.)

Also, I can walk a bit, but cannot swim at all. Weird stuff.