Hey, Kitty, I’m so sorry you still hurt so much. I’ve had chronic pain for about 25 years now and I have certainly cried myself to sleep some nights from the pain and hopelessness of it. Pain, in addition to being painful, makes you tired, prevents you from sleeping, saps your energy and causes depression.
There are a lot of things that can help pain. But what I found is that so many of them don’t help much by themselves and I think each person has to find a combination that works for herself. This can take a very long time and can make one feel quite hopeless.
Incidentally, petting a cat is one of the things that can reduce pain, or at least the anxiety around pain which makes the pain worse.
I still can find myself in tears when one too many things breaks, or whatever.
On the practical side, if your walker is broken, whatever it is that California has for Medicaid/Medicare, may pay to fix it or replace it.
As others have pointed out, lots of us here have had terrible pain. You aren’t alone in that struggle. Just keep posting.
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You know how I feel, I’m having a hard time sleeping, I can get uncomfortable in bed with pain in my upper arms & my feet. Over two years ago, I broke my ankle & dislocated it too , it healed, but my bones didn’t healed right, I was walking on my other foot, I think I damaged that foot & lower leg (I have cerebral palsy) My walker can be fixed, I just need to put the knob on & twist it to screw it back on, but I don’t have enough energy to do it. I have less upper body strength.