On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:24:48 -0000, Janet > wrote:

>In article om>,
says...
>>
>> On 3/15/2014 10:10 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
>> > Janet wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hopping around is just not worth the risk of either falling,
>> >> or breaking your patella worse.
>> >
>> > That's for sure! One slip, and everything
>> > could suddenly become much, much worse.
>> > Regretting it later will be too late,
>> > because once it happens you can't undo it.
>> >
>> > Isn't domestic help rather cheap in Texas?
>> > Now might be the time to check that out.
>> > A couple of weeks for a maid will be much
>> > cheaper than the consequences of aggravating
>> > the present condition.
>> >
>>
>> I do have a cleaning lady who comes every other week and she could
>> probably give e extra time, but what I really need is kitchen help
>
> Well if you have a rainy day fund, now is the time to use it to buy
>more help. Ask your cleaner if she knows someone who could come daily
>to shop, cook etc for a couple of months. She might jump at the chance
>herself.
>
> If you're skint, ask friends and relatives or neighbours to make up a
>help rota. Do you have any unemployed teen family?
>
> and
>> help with a shower.
>
> Surely your husband can help you have a shower? Get one of those
>waterproof leg-casings, made for the purpose.

Or use kitchen garbage bags. The ones with the ties should work. When
I broke my arm I used bread bags.

I wish you the best of luck on surviving without further damage.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)