08/07/2026 Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Incoming Transmission…
If you have access to mobility devices, you should use whatever works for you and not worry about anybody else's opinion. You'll get terrible opinions and unsolicited advice, but you're getting that anyway with your chronic illness/disability so why not move more comfortably? emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon
I still get people surprised that I'm "still" using my rollator that I had to get as part of ending up with ME and POTS with long covid.
Yep, still using the thing that keeps me from randomly tipping over in public.
Yep, still using the thing that lets me walk more calmly and thus less likely to incur a PEM.
Yep, still using the thing that helps me walk to a place and then have my own seat to rest on so I can do my ME pacing as required, as best as I can.
Yep, long covid can indeed result in long term and/or permanent disability and no, there are no miracle cures.
As my ME specialist and I agree, if you see someone on social media claiming that they "cured" their ME with a particular diet or by exercising in a particular way, that person probably didn't have ME. They may have had some other ailment that was definitely real, but ME isn't cured by miracle diets and certainly not by exercise.
So...yeah. Still using the rollator whenever I leave the house. On good days I can carefully get to the car without it or without my partner's arm to lean on, but that's because he's already loaded it into the car. And I still only leave the house for required medical/government appointments. I lean on walls and counters when at home, which is why furniture can't just be moved...I'll fall over if something I expect to lean on isn't there.
I'm so glad I decided to buy that rollator. The sneers and complaints by unmasked ableds fall like dirt to the path I roll over.
