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how to remain mobile and sit when you need to
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 2:05 am
by jaci
i have found that using a walker when i go out helps greatly It is a portable seat and though i feel a little embaressed it has opened up the shopping world again and i have a seat to use when i am stopped in the street by someone and can sit and have a little chat. i also take a seat/cane with me when i visit family or friends so that i can sit in the shower. i will admit i get some stares as i am rather quick when i walk and do not look the part of slow walking frame walking person but i have found it liberating. i have notice the tremor is getting progressively worse over the 15years has anyone any news on long term prognosis thanks heaps jaci
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:55 pm
by gloria
Dear Jaci:
Welcome to the forum and thanks for your mobility suggestion. Top of everyone's list with OT should be to do just that. Through the years it is most interesting how everyone approaches our challenge differently but showing the common will to keep going. Jaci, as far as your question about long term prognosis of OT, it appears to progress slowly and remains in stages along the way. I do think from all the shared information from our OT friends that finally we all level off at one point and remain there. I'm certain that I've done that and my tremors have been the same for many years and do not feel that I'm getting any worse but in the same token we do not get better. OT is a coping challenge and unrelenting but is not life threatening. So keep on moving, with any kind of help that works for you whether it be medication to quiet the tremor, coping devices and in most cases a combination of a number of coping skills.
Gloria