Wearing real shoes again

Many thanks for giving me some hope! The big question, of course, is when is one allowed to bend past 90 degrees, as is required to tie a shoe. After Yankee Davey's response of a year, I was really beginning to regret having spent > £100. on a fine pair of brown brogues in anticipation of finally being able to wear something other than boots!

Usually you are  allowed to bend  90° after 6 weeks if all is good, so don't rush , take your time.

Don't give up on those fine shoes yet. It gets better

I couldn't wear high heels in 4 years. I bought quiet few pairs and never wore them. So this is something for me to  look forward  

Karolina x

One solution to tie shoes is velcro strap shoes. Quite a bit easier to handle than strings. But tying shoes is not the real challenge, putting on socks is.

Powder replaced my socks & I wore slip on shoes... and all my clothing was easy slip overs ... Just made life so much easier. Mabe not ready for a fashion show but makes a fashion statement...easy on / easy off = no pain.

 

High heels I haven't warn sice my 30's... I learned they caused my feet to curl/ arthritis.. 

I wish I could have, especially with all the beautiful shoes UR feet will be happily in soon...

 

It really depends I'd u surgery was anterior or posterior. Ask UR professional.

 

Velcro shoes?! I'd rather have to go bare footed!!

(This said with, I hope you realise, a wee bit of humour.)

Velcro shoes? Nay, just shoes with velcro straps instead of laces,

For socks, I made a copy of a giant shoe horn they had in PT. Simple enough to make if you got some tools. I took a piece of 4" pipe 10" long and sawed it lengthwise down the middle, angling it about twenty degrees so that it was tapired like a scoop. The narrow end is only about 1" deep. Drill two holes in the corner of each end and attach a pretty nylon rope and now you have a device to put socks on for people who can't reach their feet. It works by sliding the sock over the shoe horn (or sock horn). You then stick your foot in the open end and pull on the rope. This should get the sock just past the heel, but if you can't even reach that far, yer out of luck. Anyway I am still using this device as I still can't get a sock on left foot unaided. Why these things aren't available at med supply stores here or there is something of a mystery.

I have kidney failure and am on home dialysis and occasionallly have to wear compression stockings. Putting these things on unaided is very trying, but with my device it is quite easy. Anyone who has to wear compression stockings should do them selves a favor and get one of these made. That's wh y I gave the dimensions.

Don't wish to advertise but, in this case, it may be justified. I was very happy to be issued by my hospital with a 'handy grabber' for picking things up; & an extremely handy device for putting on one's socks. Bit expensive, possibly, but almost invaluable if one lacks the access to tools that you obviously had. (Indeed I wish I'd known about the 'Foxy' aid for putting on socks at least a year before my procedure, since my hip made me pay big time every time I changed my socks!)

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Hey the sock aid great DIY..

the dialysis sorry to hear. What happened? 

The compresion socks my partner wears everday knee high. I had worn them thigh length after THR surgery . Really messed up my thumbs. My Hands r curled and frozen it is easier to put on the pump compression for my revision in fall. My doc was happy to write me a script to rent a portable air compression pump.

be carful about sharing UR DIY talents u might get orders for sock helpers...hehe..

Too funny.. At this point I'll wear anything that keeps me mobile.. Fashion for me went out the window.. I still have pics when I was a fashion gal don't get me wrong. I would luv to go back to my previous life,

Don't tell anybody, but I have gotten requests to make my sock horn. Not my idea; I copied what I saw in PT and I am amazede that it is not commercially available. Any handiman can make one up for anybody that needs one. Extremely helpful for compression stockings - yoiu know how hard they are to get around the heel, well this device does that nicely.

AS for the dialysis, I have to remind myself that it is so much better than being dead. Not that I ever have been, dead, that is, I'm just guessing on that one but I'll put earnest money down on that one.

Wouildh't we all love to go back to previous life-style? I recently dealt with that issue, along with giving up youth. I finally reached a point where I had to just let go of so many things I can no longer do because of both age and physical condition. I'm luckier than most, my hips did not wear out (yet) and all my other joints are still good,no arthritis, but had the misfortune to crash my bicycle and break my hip, then get hooked up with a bad surgeon. If I am lucky, that will all be resolved in a couple weeks, but I have no illusions about continuing to be limited in my physical abilities.

Sorry to hear about UR bike accident. That's sounded brutal.. 

Maybe it's time to get out the roller blades!

what is the message facility?