https://rons-home.net/en/blog Stay up to date with Ron Piggott's day to day life, activites and efforts to serve individuals living with chronic pain, physical disabilities and those who rely on a wheelchair for their mobility. https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3452 I just got my right leg straight for the first time since having my right knee replaced. There is still a lot of healing to do. I could not be more relieved. My surgeon stressed there is 12 weeks to make it straight following surgery and then it https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3452 2026-07-08 20:26:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3451 I just spent an hour with a physiotherapist. The purpose of the appointment was for the assessment to get the Assistive Devices Program to fund a replacement ROHO cushion for my power wheelchair. I was pleasantly surprised. The physiotherapi https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3451 2026-07-08 14:31:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3450 Yesterday evening I discovered the ROHO cushion I use with my power wheelchair developed another puncture and the air is leaking out of it. This is the second puncture in 3 weeks. The Assistive Devices Program makes provision for a new cushion e https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3450 2026-07-07 15:33:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3449 I just slipped over to the store and purchased (2) 9" x 9" baking pans for my countertop oven. I am really glad I purchased the countertop oven at a yard sale. This is so much easier for me to access instead of the oven that is part of my sto https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3449 2026-07-06 20:26:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3448 The grocery order I placed was delivered this morning. I just mixed up my bean salad. The last step of this is going out to buy some baking pans to bake all the fish servings in. I like it when a plan comes together. This is going well. https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3448 2026-07-05 11:37:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3447 I am still finding getting my meals hard. I am still in the thick of healing from my right knee joint being replaced. I have decided to make up a batch of 4 bean salad and use servings of fish to balance out the nutrition the beans don't have. I https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3447 2026-07-04 19:54:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3446 My appointment was sufficiently interesting. I am not entirely sure what to make of it. A seroma is the medical name for the fluid problem under my incision. I have told my surgeon in no uncertain terms that I want the seroma dealt with https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3446 2026-07-02 11:38:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3445 My power wheelchair is back from it's spa day. It was disassembled, replacement parts used and then reassembled. This should mean it remains usable for another 4 years. Right now it is 12 years old. I have no complaints about the metal frame. https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3445 2026-06-30 12:47:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3444 I have woke up today with more energy than I did a week ago. I just finished washing my entire body all at the same time. This is the first time I have been able to wash my entire body all at once since I arrived home from my right knee joint bein https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3444 2026-06-30 09:57:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3442 I just put penetrating oil (think rust consuming fluid) into the 4 stem bearings on my power wheelchair. The instructions are to tap the rusted bolt - nut for 20 minutes. I just took the wheelchair for a 20 minute drive. Lots of cracks in the road https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3442 2026-06-29 20:58:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3443 I just put penetrating oil (think rust consuming fluid) into the 4 stem bearings on my power wheelchair. The instructions are to tap the rusted bolt - nut for 20 minutes. I just took the wheelchair for a 20 minute drive. Lots of cracks in the road https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3443 2026-06-29 20:58:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3441 I just gave myself an injection into my left knee joint. What I did is called a diagnostic injection. I put local freezing into it. This has stopped my left knee pain. This means replacing my left knee joint will resolve the pain. The parts tha https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3441 2026-06-29 10:57:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3440 The dealership I contacted on June 23rd just called. My disability case worker approved the maintenance for my power wheelchair. The replacement parts have been delivered. They have scheduled to do the maintenance on my power wheelchair o https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3440 2026-06-26 15:33:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3439 The appointment with my family doctor concerning loosing weight went really well. When I book appointments through the web site I have to provide a few sentences to explain what the appointment will be for. When my family doctor first walk https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3439 2026-06-26 15:30:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3438 I just had the follow up appointment with the doctor that treated my microscopic colitis. Since I asked a different question from my previous appointment he better defined the symptoms of microscopic colitis. From what the doctor is describing t https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3438 2026-06-25 14:11:00+00