Couldn't Get Up

[jennyjoan]

Well the old suite has been taken away - I don't understand why guys come on their own and asked me to push the settee. After my trapped nerve. But I did do it.

However some little blobs of paint on the wooden floor behind old suite so got down on my bum as I couldn't kneel, scraped them off - couldn't get up without one leg giving way.

Bummed my way into hall and held onto banister. Weight definitely needs to come off - but is there an aid I could get to help me get up meantime. I need to kneel down to polish etc. Thanks

[bednobs]

something like this perhaps https://www.completecareshop.co.uk/household-aids/gardening-tools-for-the-elderly/garden-kneeler-view-large?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgZTRBRDmARIsAJvVWAu_T3VCBRycLDeWbfU8-zFCYtIx6jqzWseSM0kJ26agMwTDM-Wl4xEaAojkEALw_wcB

[emmie]

perhaps a cane would help, or one of those little kneeling stool pads you use for gardening

[Jackdaw33]

I was in the same situation. Getting down is easy, getting up is nigh impossible. My solution was to employ a cleaner. With the money I save by no longer going out socialising it is the best thing I have ever done.

[Bathsheba]

Sometimes when I fall in house, I crawl on all-fours to sofa back where I know I can get up;)
Sorry, not much help, I know...:(

Baths
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[jennyjoan]

I have the kneeler as in pad - it's getting up which was impossible. I don't know if the little rails thingmabob would be strong enough for my weight.

But will buy it - I'm sure it will be handy for some wee jobs. Thanks Bednobs and to others for replies.

[naomi24]

Buy a floor polisher?

[Smowball]

They shouldn’t have asked you to push the settee.

[Mamyalynne]

As your mobility diminishes you have to adapt to what you can no longer manage, as Naomi says - long handled implements where once you'd had bent or knelt.

Conversely get someone in to do the things you can't now and than.

[Mamyalynne]

^ you'd have...

[jennyjoan]

I have had a cleaner in a couple of times to do the big jobs. These were just little blobs of paint to be washed off so too much fuss to get a cleaner in.

Felt a tad weepy there as I have been so industrious all my life. Coulda tackled many things. Don't forget I did paint my living room in July. Trapped nerve hasn't helped. Smow - "they" was a single man.

[Jackdaw33]

Mamya has a point. 30 years ago I would have derided anyone who employed a cleaner as a lazy git with more money than sense. However one has to make concessions to age and infirmity. I can now relax in the knowledge that my flat is clean and tidy without me having to lift a finger.

[jennyjoan]

Jack - how often do you have a cleaner and for how long

[Jackdaw33]

Once a week for two hours. The first hour she cleans (my flat is tiny) and the second hour she does my shopping. For £30 a week I consider it value for money and a load off my mind.

[jennyjoan]

thanks jack - my house is a semi so biggish enough. Cleaner is coming on 16th to do all the glass windows of which I have many. I do have an electric window cleaner etc but my arms are a little weak.

[anneasquith]

Good for you jack, you appear to have the perfect solution. Do you have assistance with cooking ?

[Gill1941]

I have two of the garden kneelers. One for gardening and one in the house for any kneeling that has to be done there. They are very strong. Have had the garden one for years. I am the same as Bathsheba if I get down have to crawl to nearest furniture to get up. Been like that for many years.

[jennyjoan]

but yea but -I asking the chepists onme oujt g f ssa upi upipp wjat O,eam

[Mamyalynne]

You OK JJ?

[tonyav]

What's going on with your typing, jj ?.

[Tilly2]

That's Irish, Yont.