Is it normal to want a wheelchair

So I had an episode a month and a half ago, I collapsed at the grocer due to chest pain. So I would normally never think to go the hospital but since I had a new injury known for forming clots I was like god dammnit. I went they said I was fine, but I had another episode in the waiting and I was so much pain generally cause of legs I didn't want to stay. They wanted me to wait 4 hours in case it was a false negative, but I took the risk considering my history and went home. I am still alive now so it was ok.

I stopped biking out of that situation to decrease the pressure going into my legs to prevent said issue from happening till I received surgery. As a result I had to start using a cane but if I walk every day I can only ever go an 8 minute walk every 30 mins and I can only last an hour total. Any more then this I can't stand any longer I am finished.

Other issues have since developed as I hadn't walked in over 6 months as I couldn't so I biked. And I've had a lot complications leaving my muscles atrophied in one leg, the other leg one of my core muscles is strained right out. However if I don't walk for 5 days I can make it an 8 minute walk without a cane but not make it back.

Now too the point you needed the numbers and history for this. If I receive surgery on my leg preventing me from biking and I would be able to walk normally again with the other condition doing far walks like 20 mins, and 20 mins back after short rest. Any more I would need a cane or to be safe a wheel chair (if it was like all day walk-a-thon like hanging out at the mall or in town with friends for 8 hours where you're never sitting except for lunch) so I don't relapse the issue after surgery. But other wise I could do every thing normally, I never did sports but I could still swim, walk, dance, do chores like I have all ways done.

Now the major surgery I receive would put me out for 6 months, but I would be able to walk long distances without a wheel chair but would need a cane just in case as I rehabilitate and even after that due to other medical conditions being on a lifetime basis.

So my question is, is it normal to rather a wheelchair over receiving the major surgery as for me it would add no value to my life except in the rare conditions I am out all day as I stated earlier which rare and I can still walk enough if the wheel chair doesn't go where we're walking that little bit. And it could all so pose risk of the issue relapsing as I have impulsive tendencies and it would create a sense of false security for myself. I will never be able to jog, or run again any ways and with it I would think I could and that just seems cruel to me. I can even jump without the surgery when I stay off my legs, do squats normally and be able to feel my limits without having it just rupture again.

Thanks for listening, I know it was long.

P.S.

I have not mentioned any conditions are they are not relevant (and there is like 11 of them). I have documented the benefits of each choice and I just want your opinion. I am going to need a wheel chair regardless for the time being but what about just keeping it.

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Comments ( 9 )
  • TheDentist

    You want to get a wheelchair because you believe in your mind you are a paraplegic.

    anti-hero should buy a wheelchair so he can move around again after cutting off his leg because he believed in his mind he was an amputee.

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    • I am no where near a paraplegic in any regard. In my mind I can do anything and that is the problem. I need to face reality because a 5 minute walk shouldn't take 20 mins, I shouldn't be constantly falling to the point my knees are bruised and scraped. And when I am better I don't feel like being so much pain ever again if I don't have to be, and I don't wish not being able to support myself completely by being out of commission for 6 months as I live alone. No one is close by to help, and I live in a basement apartment. So I would only ever need a wheel chair when going out for a whole day of walking, which wouldn't be too often. Which as I said in my opinion is a win win situation as even after the major operation I'd be still quite limited, and I just don't think it would add any benefit to my life. If any thing take it away, because it would give me a huge mental block. Thinking you can do something you simply cannot.

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  • LMFAO_1

    Tl:dr

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  • Terence_the_viking

    No i like being

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  • Dalinar

    For the longest time I've wanted to be small enough to fit into the back seat of a double stroller (one in front of the other)

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  • snarkygirl

    I always wanted a wheelchair, cause I'm lazy.

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    • lol I remember when I has hospitalised months ago now it was the only way I could navigate the premises. After 3 days of being there as I simply couldn't walk home and wasn't coming back after in variating intervals for medication my arms become quite exhausted. In no way is it for the lazy, I would never buy/ask for an electric wheelchair I believe things in life should come at the expense of effort otherwise it is not worth doing.

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      • snarkygirl

        I'd have people push me.

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  • charli.m's_Menstual_Discomfort

    Easy, go to bed. Dehydrate yourself and die.

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