Zimmer frames

Seeing Zimmer frames mentioned on another thread here, not to highjack it I thought Ii would give my experience with having (nearly) and (just about) using one.

When I was recovering in hospital after my operation and being laid up for four weeks in the ward I had lost almost half my weight and had very little strength. Not even enough to manage to sit up without help.

As I started to slowly recover I was urged by the nurses to get up and move about. Great I thought but a little support would not go amiss. So I asked for a zimmer frame and told there wasn't one available. Funny that as one was being used to keep the ward door open but I wasn't allowed to use that. Oh no they fetched one for somewhere else.

So for the next few days there I was charging up and down the corridor outside the wards at a grand speed even a snail could have passed me by.

Ok got home and then received 2 zimmer frames, one for upstairs and one for down stairs which by this time I was just managing to get about without one.

I have to add as a foot note the zimmer frame I used in hospital was a godsend, that is when i eventually had the strength to get out of the hospital bed.

So as you may or may not know it was touch and go at one stage if I lived and Sue was warned to expect the worst.

Re: Zimmer frames

Mr Mags was offered a walking frame while he was in hospital a few months ago. There didn't appear to be a shortage of them in his hospital.

Re: Zimmer frames

Mags i don't think there was a shortage in the hospital Ii was in, I got the impression it was too much trouble for anyone to get me one
Yet when I had my eye operation to have a stent inserted behind the eye at our local outpatients they could not have been nicer.
I guess they knew how terrified people are in having it done they did their utmost to put one at ease