Crohn's in a wheelchair
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Welcome to the forum Tootsie!
Can I ask why you use a wheel chair - is it because you have problems walking/standing or are generally lacking the energy to walk/stand?
I used a wheel chair for a short time just before being diagnosed. I was 13 at the time, so my parents used to push me around. I was too weak and anemic to push myself, and too weak and anemic to walk very far at all. I really was on deaths door at the time, I was in a really bad way. Since then I have managed to get by ok without a wheel chair. There are times when I find it really hard to walk, due to abdominal pains and general weakness, but usually I just push through it and try my best. I found it tough being in a wheel chair, I found strangers would come up to me and start talking to me, and being quite a shy teenager I didn't like the attention much.
Do you use a wheel chair all the time, or are you able to get up and walk about too? I used to find it funny when my parents would park my wheel chair outside a shop and I'd get up and start walking, much to peoples surprise
Can I ask why you use a wheel chair - is it because you have problems walking/standing or are generally lacking the energy to walk/stand?
I used a wheel chair for a short time just before being diagnosed. I was 13 at the time, so my parents used to push me around. I was too weak and anemic to push myself, and too weak and anemic to walk very far at all. I really was on deaths door at the time, I was in a really bad way. Since then I have managed to get by ok without a wheel chair. There are times when I find it really hard to walk, due to abdominal pains and general weakness, but usually I just push through it and try my best. I found it tough being in a wheel chair, I found strangers would come up to me and start talking to me, and being quite a shy teenager I didn't like the attention much.
Do you use a wheel chair all the time, or are you able to get up and walk about too? I used to find it funny when my parents would park my wheel chair outside a shop and I'd get up and start walking, much to peoples surprise
