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Pastimes : COVID-19 How has this impacted your life?
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From: Underexposed6/23/2021 12:32:47 AM
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Frank Walker

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Ok...weeks passed and I have not had much to say....This does not mean I am cured of the after effects of COVID....far from it.

Since that vaccination the problems with my knees got worse and worse. GP's have not time for problems they don't understand it seems. Then I had an epiphany. I have wrecked my knees in the past (about 10-12 years ago and I went to a Sports Medicine Clinic then and they cured me in a couple of weeks.

I contacted them 3 weeks ago and they said they would look at my problem. On my first session they identified that muscles on the inside of my left knee had degraded ,,,we did some exercises which I was to do over the next week.

Next week's visit identified another muscle group with problems...If I lay down with my left leg spread about 15 inches from centre I could not even move it to the center at all !!! My right leg in the same configuration.... was no problem, I could do 10 reps of that motion with ease.

Today was my last treatment so far.... I have shown some improvement in the range of motion for each test but it is slow.... so slow. One has to be patient. My Therapist is happy with the improvement though and tells me that rebuilding muscle takes time. I really like this woman...I will miss her for 4 weeks and will be handed off to a new therapist. My current therapist has a gig with the local professional football team (Calgary Stampeders)... It shows the quality of the person treating me so far....Her replacement comes highly recommended.

Does it mean that I don't fall??? Not true though this last week I was fall free... the previous week I fell 3 times.

I have trouble climbing steps... I am fine if I concentrate on what I am doing but once in a while I get over confident and I collapse.... I don't fall in a heartbeat...Imagine a hydraulic arm whose joint is controller by fluid. A piston would increase or lessen the pressure in that joint to move the joint. Now imagine you have a pinhole leak in the lines.... the arm would fail and increasing the pressure just causes the leak to get worse and the arm continues to fail

Well that is how my falling feels,,,I make a stupid move on a step and I slowly collapse to the floor...I cannot stop it but I don't really hurt myself. If I am on a relatively flat surface, I am like a turtle on its back....I am helpless.

This happened to me a week ago. I was in an underground parkade and was walking from one empty parking space to another. A car was pulling into the space I was leaving and I looked over my shoulder as I stepped on a 3" high by 2' wide curb and fell.... There was nothing to use to pull myself up with for 15 feet around me.

The women (middle 50's) hopped out of her car and asked if she could help me up. I smiled and asked her if she could dead-lift 245 lbs....she laughed and said no and rushed off to get another woman to help her....same small size and I did not think each of them could lift 120 lbs...I looked at the second woman and said "I don't think I can trust you :)" The first woman rushed off and found 2 more women to help (No men around). They crowded around me sounding like geese as they discussed what they could do.

I raised my arms like a gymnast's Iron Cross...2 women on each side easily lifted me to my feet. Smiles all around and thanked them for their assistance.

as they walked away I thought to myself...." This is a hell'va way to meet women!!! " :)

I am on my way to recovery now...I like my decision to use this clinic.

UE
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