made it to the frozen food area before having to hobble out to the car and let my husband
The frozen food area of bigger stores with reduced temperature "kills" me... - was it praps that bit of it all?
I was grateful not a lot of people to move around or have to stop and change directions
Yeah, as I live near my important shops I can go back home if it's fuller.
And go at a time when no one's there, like when it's raining, or in the mid-evening.
More cos I mask and distance, but also when I'm instable and slow.
I welcome it when someone's in the way, cos it reminds me to stop in my tracks and recover until they're past.
I'm also so proud of myself for still going and making it 1/4 of the way through shopping.
I can share that pride for you! Yesterday I saw someone with crutches and bent over go over a calm road at tortoise pace without looking, so any-/everyone would have stopped without ado, would've been a waste of energy to look.
Rather than pity, I was filled with happiness for her and gratefulness that she was managing to get out on her own and back.
I need to set low realistic goals for myself at the moment. Keep pushing and moving forward, even if it is a super slow awkward shuffle limp!
Don't we always...? Caught myself shuffling thru the flat the other day, and wondered why? - I could have walked, as I'm a bit stronger at the moment - But it was to save energy to do other things longer. I've adapted all my movements to keep save "fast energy" and us it for "slow and very slow", but that longer. Or at the moment cos of L D N, I can actually now say my resting time is getting less and less (now around 4h I'd think, maybe 6h), I'm no longer using "very slow" energy, only a bit "slow" and lots "moderate".
However I pride myself in managing and using my energy profile this way, like you, adjusting to my condition/form. It's become fairly intuitive, but sometimes my wife still has to tell me that I'm overdoing it, cos I can't always feel it, and she can see it - sometimes too restrictive tho, she doesn't always read the signs right, but I add my and her impression together and adjust my intention.
Does your husband help in this way, or is he or can he learn/-ing to?
Muscle weakness, wasting, fatigue and tightness.
Any tips for tight locked up hips, weak glutes tight hamstrings and quads and tight tendons and ligaments in the knee?
There are loads of stretches and massage/press points for all these, with or without equipment.... I work on them all the time, identifying which treatment will help a specific issue and rotate them about every hour, as gentle and short as necessary, but regularly. Usually I start by looking for the sorest spot of a certain area and holding, pressing or massaging that with fingers or massager (occasionally tennis ball etc). This may then get a little worse first, so not too long, but later again. If there's no tendency to improvement with this or anyways I then try stretches. As I know most, occasionally still look a certain area up on youtube, I intuitively try several out, till I can feel the area being stretched, and know how to not stretch too much or long. Sometimes I combine stretching and massaging with my massager.
For weak glutes, wall sits for a few seconds should be the right place to start. If that's too difficult and you haven't got a trick or person to help you up again, then praps on a chair, sort of sitting on an air "cushion" for a few seconds, repeatedly. Always keeping under limits, looking for ways to decrease the load if necessary.
Youtube is great not only for ideas for exercises/treatments like this for any type of pain, but also for people who believe they can't do "anything".
Is that any help?