Ok, you gotta laugh. RA can get you stuck in some difficult situations.
Can't do buttons today---pull over sweater it is.
Shoes with laces--no way, Velcro is way cooler
But sometimes its just down right funny. I was having a flare and my knees were huge, red and feverish. The pain was awful. I layed in bed and worked up the gumption to get up and go to the toilet. I shuffled all the way and almost fell in an exhausted heap when I got there. THEN the problem was evident. It is 3:00am. I'm the only one home tonight. I can't get up off the toilet! I took a hanger out of the trash can, fished a towel off the rod that was just out of reach, flung the towel up over a hook on the wall nearby, and used it to pull myself up. McGyver would have been proud.
K-Lynn
Darn right he would! No one can say we aren't resourceful! Or flexible. I finally gave up trying to hook the bra in the back, and got a front hook one. Just one problem, instead of 2 hooks, it must have about 12! So I just do top, bottom and one in the middle. Wish they made a velcro one, or do they? Keep laughing! PatAmazingly McGyver-ish and very resourceful! Oh the challenges we face that no one else could understand. GinniLMAO I love it. Our towel rack is just in front of the loo, so I do that often!!
And I hear ya with the coat hanger, I'm always using other things to reach other things, or open other things with. LoL You do what you can, right???
I know the bathtub thing. I always take the phone with me when I take a bath. My husband and daughter (18 Y/O) were in the living room watching a movie . I was taking a nice warm relaxing bath , I finished but couldn't get out. I yelled for one of them to help me but they never came to get me. So I called my husband's cell phone. He answered with the comment why are you calling me from the bathroom ? I was a smart-butt and said I am in the tub naked, want to join me ? He said not right now honey , Iam watching a movie. So I told him I was stuck to come get me . It is sorta like the old commercial "Help I 've fallen and can't get up" . One other time , my children were teenagers , They knew that I had a bad night so they were being NICE and letting me sleep in. One of them quitely shut my bedroom door and they went to school. When I got up I couldn't turn the door knob. We had just moved into a new house and didn't have a phone in our room yet. I stayed locked in my bedroom all day long until one of them got home. NO DIET COKE ALL DAY !!!! The kids still talk about locking me in my room. They really find it funny . Actually I think it is funny now. But I don't want to do it again . We installed a phone in our room that night. sh*t, on flare days i dont even bother with a bra, i just make sure i wear something heavy enough so that the headlights arent on
LoL This stuff is funny. I'm glad we can giggle when we look back.
I don't know HOW many food and beverage products I've been stuck without because Justin closed them so hard I can't get back into them. I've gone days without a certian food that I was after, because he'd be at work, and by the time he got home, I'd forget to ask him to loosen a cap for me. LOL
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