norm92de wrote on 06/11/20 at 11:57:36:Dave,
I seem to remember your wife getting the bends. Has she recovered, I sincerely hope so.
She has not recovered entirely - but is still making progress. She still has trouble with neuropathy and lacks complete feeling and strength from the waist down. She walks a bit slow as she is walking by memory rather than by feeling what her legs are doing - she has trouble when the ground is uneven. Her bladder and bowels are affected as the nerves to those areas are still compromised as well. If she walks too far in a day - her legs can burn and tingle all night and keep her from sleeping.
She has a great attitude and knows that someday her nerves will recover and the diagnosis is that someday she will have a nearly full recovery - it still may take a year to two more (the accident was 2 years ago next month). She recently commented that after working in the garden a bit hard she noticed her leg muscles were sore - which is a revelation as she would not have been able to feel that soreness previously.
She did have a setback a few weeks ago. I bought her an "E-Bike" so we could go riding bicycles together.....the electric assist will help her ride at my pace and help her up the hills - riding the bicycle is good therapy. She went riding with a girlfriend and unfortunately she was making a U-Turn and misjudged the distance to a bollard post and clipped it with her handlebar.....she fell down and broke her elbow and badly bruised her knee and wrist. She is now recovering from that as well!
Thanks for asking........once she recovers from her bicycle accident we will again start taking some rides on the motorcycle, and I will do my best not to drop her!
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