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/3552 My friend Andy made it over to visit and help me. We had a good visit. Today we spent the time outside getting my window air conditioner away for winter. While Andy worked on this I did some weeding. I really needed someone to be with the stat https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3552 2026-10-02 17:20:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3551 I just had the annual inspection and servicing of my furnace. There was nothing unexpected found. They gave my furnace a good cleaning using a vacuum cleaner. This should extend the life of the bearings. https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3551 2026-09-30 14:48:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3550 I have just finished my right knee physiotherapy for today. I am really pleased. The range of motion in my right knee is increasing. I am able to do more repetitions before my knee joint goes stiff. It is taking longer to achieve pain that will https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3550 2026-09-28 16:00:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3549 Yesterday evening I tried taking a few steps. It was difficult to do so. What motivated me was a surgeon appointment coming up to discuss replacing my left knee joint. I needed to get a sense of how my artificial right knee joint is progressing https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3549 2026-09-28 09:03:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3548 I have started to really enjoy the recovery from my right knee joint replacement. This has been a very painful process. But my artificial right knee joint has been positively responding to the physiotherapy. With my right knee joint beginnin https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3548 2026-09-27 20:45:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3547 I have had another breakthrough with the physiotherapy for my right knee joint replacement. My right knee joint has suddenly become looser. This is the third time this has happened during my recovery. My surgeon explained to me when this happens https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3547 2026-09-24 20:45:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3546 The technician has just finished the repair to my furnace. That horrible smell that woke me up in the middle a few days ago was my furnace motor burning out. There has been a very weak breeze coming from the furnace during heating cycles. https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3546 2026-09-24 14:22:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3545 My eczema has flared up. I am not surprised. My body has been under sustained physiological stress with my left artificial hip replaced in April 2025, my right artificial hip replaced in November 2025 and my right knee joint replaced in April 20 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3545 2026-09-24 12:48:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3544 I took an extra dose of pain medication before using the warm water therapy pool for my knee replacement surgery physiotherapy. Then I showed the knee joint that was replaced no mercy. I have worked on it really hard today. I would never tell a https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3544 2026-09-23 15:00:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3543 My monthly pass expires today. I have paid for the next month. By doing this I am able to reserve a space in the warm water therapy pool prior to leaving my home. This time I have paid for a multi-pass. This gives me access to use their Warm Wa https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3543 2026-09-22 18:51:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3542 I just purchased more frozen meals. I am finding the preparation involved in getting my own meals using core ingredients too hard right now. These will cover another week. At the self checkout was someone dressed in army clothing. I gave he https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3542 2026-09-22 16:13:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3541 My furnace is broken. The air flow speed is low. It isn't keeping up with the temperature I have set on my thermostat when it gets dark outside and the temperature goes down. I have booked a service appointment for Thursday afternoon. The furna https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3541 2026-09-22 08:15:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3540 The next appointment with my surgeon is on October 6th 2026. I have now booked VIA Rail to take me to Kingston for my appointment. All the VIA Rail employees involved in the accessibility needs for me to travel using my power wheelchair have tr https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3540 2026-09-22 06:17:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3539 I am still experiencing swelling in my right knee joint. It is much less than the day I had the knee joint replaced. My surgeon told me this could last for year as the artificial joint is accepted by my body. Today is another first. I can see https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3539 2026-09-21 16:33:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3538 Today has been very hard and has gone horribly wrong. I slept through when I needed nerve pain medication in the night. I abruptly woke up 8:21 AM. My pain was severe. This time it has made me really dizzy. This happens when my pain gets out https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3538 2026-09-21 12:27:00+00