People who are chronically ill or disabled have little challenges they may not talk about because these are little in comparison to the top challenges.
After leaving the hospital last month, I realized that many small challenges add to the stress I already juggle.
Here’s an example of mine
Not being able to open most lids due to lack of strength, and then spending 30 minutes to screw the lid back on. Sometimes they sit overnight without a lid off, other nights I continue to try for dexterity and concentration.
I tried to take care of myself without going to the doctor. At that time, I wore adult underwear for the first time. My husband doesn’t know how to shop in this category. What good is adult underwear when the crotch hangs low and they gap all the way around the legs which caused many accidents that were quite embarrassing. At the hospital, I was given a mesh boy short underwear that hardly covered anything and I had to add a pad for security.
I have to sit on the toilet to put on socks, jeans, and shoes or I’ll lose my balance getting dressed and standing up.
After the big fall in the shower gave me a concussion, my walking is different. I will walk straight and then my feet move three or four times to one side. I trip over my own feet and when I’m standing close to a wall, my body is like a magnet and I fall into the wall.
The very frustrating one is getting off the toilet and rolling then falling on the floor.
I’m also growing older and my hands do not have much strength. Which I deal with every day. I get tired of asking my husband to open something, it makes me feel even older.
I’m more prepared for the next time.
What’s going on with you right now?
Melinda
lookingforthelight.blog 
My difficulties is my deafness. I am profoundly deaf and wear hearing aids. But what people don’t realise is that hearing aids assist. They don’t give back my hearing I once had. And because I don’t sound deaf as people have put it in the past, makes all the more for people to not understand my difficulties.
I lipread with what I can hear with my hearing aids. It’s tiring.
One to one I am ok with. With two other people chatting it starts to get difficult, but doable in following what is said. But three or more people, it is impossible to follow.
And because I am an introvert as well as a HSP, makes me sometimes crave the alone time if I have had to listen for some time, or just craving quietness.
No doubt you have a difficult sometimes. My husband is wearing them and he loves them. I wish you the best and hope life treats you kind. 🙂
Thank you
I may go down the line of cochlear implant for my right ear. It’s something that has been discusssed a couple of times.
Yes, that sounds great but there are a lot of questions to answer. Have you searched to see if you can find comments about their experience was. That the type of info I look for when discussing a new medication. 🙂
Yes. Years ago and again these last few months with things changing, both with myself and the technology.
I am waiting on when audiology call me back for a follow-up appointment and a chat and if I feel the same, they will forward me to the Cochlear Implant Team, to have a chat with them. I am not forced to go down the route, if I change my mind after speaking with the cochlear implant team.
I used to go to a deaf place before it closed. A majority wore cochlear implants. We used to do listening exercises and those with cochlear implants did better than me in recognising the music, or picking out a particular instrument.🙂
It could be a miracle for you and maybe not. I don’t know anything about the surgery but I’m seen many small children wearing them.
I have had surgery on my mastoid before. So I am not worried about surgery itself.
I can’t understand speech with right hearing aid alone now. My anxiety would be the few weeks of completely single-sided deafness until switch on and then hoping it works for me.
It will take weeks or months of listening exercises to notice any benefits, depending on how I go. 🙂
Sounds like you have already know what happens after surgery.
Yes. I have been reading up on everything for some time. But I will still have a few questions for the cochlear implant team, if I go ahead to have a chat with them.
I know you’ll pick the right thing for you. 🙂