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Chester Worwa <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
Date:
Fri, 6 Sep 2002 03:35:58 -0700
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I'm glad your home.  You might want to try knee
immobolizers for your hamstrings.  I have been
sleeping in a pair of knee immobolizers for a year and
a half now and they are helping me wonderfully.

--- Linda Wagner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, Mag, I came home late Monday night and can
> relax and recover in the
> comfort of home.  I have a ways to go.  I am
> breathing easier and hurting
> less, but I still am nowhere close to 100% and I am
> taking some mega pain
> pills.  I can tell you all one thing...having CP and
> getting a bloodclot in
> your lung really stinks.  Through all the pain
> initially I was as rigid as a
> board, and then when the pain was more controlled, I
> could hardly walk after
> spending so much time not moving in bed!  Even now,
> I don't feel I have land
> legs quite yet.  I am using my walker from back when
> I had hamstring
> lengthening surgery three years ago to walk
> everywhere.  Now that I am on
> coumadin, I sure as heck don't want to fall and
> bruise/cut myself!
>
> Linda


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