You remember when you were a kid and your mom told you not to plop on the couch?
Do you plop when you go to sit down?
Alls I know is I am in free fall when I go to sit down on anything. My knees/legs just do not have the function of helping me to sit normal. I have never been able to sit normal. I remember being told not to plop on the couch because I might fall thru
I remember when I was in school and we had to sit on the gym floor for roll call, and I would sit down and you can hear me hit the floor each and every time. I know I probably could have gotten out of not having to sit on the floor the rest, but I wanted to be normal and not seen as different, and noone knew I had JRA. I did not tell people until Highschool when I kept going to the library for gym.
Hi Joonie..........
My name is CinDee and I am a flopper. LOL
Well, I used to be until this wonderful cyst on my tailbone. My flopping days are over. I sit down like a woman 9 month pregnant with triplets. Slow & steady and holding on to anything for support.
I'm having plop problems too. If the chair has arms - I'll use them to sit down 'nicely'. But that trick is working very well with such bad elbows and wrists.
The worst is not getting down - it is trying to get up after sitting. I am so stiff. My knees love to drop me.
sorry had to add that in I am sure that one day the toilet is going to go thru the floor. Yes, I plop. I think I broke the wax ring on our toilet. It had to be replaces this weekend. And I plop into my fav chair lol.
Kelsaysmom, It's good to know someone else relates thing to songs. That was very cute
I do that all the time. My family just rolls their eyes at each other, as if to say,"..yep, Mom's at it again". If you think about it, almost everything has a song to go with it.
Keep it up!
PS. No I don't "plop". That would really hurt my back. But I do agree that getting up is hardest of all.
Nini
yea i either relate things to songs or random quotes from movie titles....
For example...
You see this? This is a happy face. You'll be lucky to ever have a face as happy as this.
who can name that movie AND the actor
OMG I'm starting a new topic LOL
Oh... I just told hubby today after he removed the old toilet out of the bathroom at the house and the tank bolts were so rusted it came off during transit to another area..... I told him with the way I plop on the toilet that sucker would have not lasted long with me. So, now I get a 17 1/2 inch toilet WOOHOO!!! No more free falling to the toilet and praying that I do not fall thru the floor LMAO!!
Oh and another thing I HATE... is when I sit on someones couch and then I realize how far the free fall is and then I know I am going to have to ask hubby to help me back up. In-laws couch is like that. I use to have to hold on to their coffee table which was heavy and pull myself up on my good days, on bad days I did not even attempt that, I just would wait for hubby to get ready and at the door and say "ummm yeah.... bye" and wave then he knows he has to help me up
hummmm... might try that exercise, but one question... do you eventually get to sit down by yourself without someone standing in front of you or do they always have to help you?
The toilet part has been fixed... I am getting a new toilet since now hubby has placed it in another part of the house and installed it. He hates to wait for me to get off the pot when he has to go, so he fixed it to where he now has a spare potty
anyway, I got to move to a ground floor apt, 2 bedrooms and still pay the same price as a 1 bedroom... so it was a blessing in disguise to have uggy neighbors.. and now i can plop, without anyone hearing me..
are we not glad for remote controls!!!
Yay!! lol.. there are days, i wonder how i'm going to get out of the tub!!CinDee, never heard it called a lizard. Hope I don't find one running lose in my bathroom.
Joonie, I just found this for you. Can't transfer the photo, but here's the link. Sits over the loo or stand-alone - (or in your case sit alone)
http://www.accessibleconstruction.com/services/bathrooms/4.h tml
Maybe you could get this funded?? Or win the Lotto?? Don't really understand your funding system in US, but hey - who knows.
Take Care
Liar Liar Pants on Fire Deanna. You would love to find one of those "lizards" running around the bathroomOk... those wooden toilet seats are no fun!! IN-laws use to have one on their toilet a couple of years back... and well it cracked a big gap, and when I sat down on it, it pinched my butt and hurt like someone's business, was not sure what to do, stand up in mid-stream or just finish and take the pain
Oh yeah, Deanna, I do not have muscles in my legs, never have since I was a kid. I use to ride a bike everyday when I was about 8 years old, you would have thought I would have built up some kind of leg muscle from riding bikes with friends, well... for as long as I can remember I have had, what an ex RD called my thights, mushy and flubby thights. They do seem to be worse since my last really bad bout in '05, but I have also been having trouble with my right knee being swelled non-stop, so afraid to push it and mess something up.
I just remembered something. When I was teaching disabled children, I had a special toilet chair made for one of my girls who was in a wheelchair. We had to lift her on and off, because she wasn't able to help at all, but the idea might help you, and a grab bar on the wall to help get up and down (if you are able to pull on one). Looked similar to the frame on the "catapult chair", but without the fancy stuff.
I had the school caretaker weld extensions onto the legs of an ordinary old tubular kitchen chair to give it height and width so it could be moved over the toilet. Then he cut a hole in the seat and added a toilet seat. Added rubber tips to the feet of it to prevent slipping. This worked well and was minimal cost. Sounds as though your hubby is pretty handy and I'm sure could work that out. It was very expensive to buy a "proper" one and school funding just could not run to it.
Take Care
Thanks for the idea kiwilass. Hubby is not that handy... he tries to be and most times succeed. Just do not ask him to cut anything on a table saw unless you want it crookedI'm getting visuals of Deanna with various and assorted "lizards" running around in her bathroom
And Joonie catapulting her children off the potty
(By the way, I never heard it called a lizard, either)
Hope everyone is feeling okay, today. A good laugh always helps me a little.
Hugs,
Nini
Yup that's why we keep coming back.
OK I usually don't call it a lizard. I got that from my 14 year old son. I sat there thinking exactly what I would call it. What do you guys call it?
My sisters and I had a discussion about how guys name theirs. My hubby calls his "Mr. Ed."" My sis Lisa said Mr. Ed is a horse. My hubby said Of course!
We was cracking up
So come, tell me what is the proper name. Does your man name his?
Katie... OMG!! I would guess because "it" goes into a dark, hidden cave
Sorry, been around hubby WAY TOO MUCH the last few days
KATIE -- and Robin is?????????????????????
Copyright ArthritisInsight.com