u/the-greenest-thumb

I've been using forearm crutches for the past month and they've been helping immensely for pain and balance. But I've been struggling with how to carry more than a couple things and have had to rely on my mum more which she's not happy with.

We typically shop with one of those fabric wheeled carts each to carry our groceries home but I can't do that with the crutches. I have backpacks but they only fit a couple items at a time, certainly can't carry like 80lbs of groceries on my back even if they fit.

So far it seems my choices are to not use the crutches at all for shopping. Or go every single day and pick up a handful of items at a time.

Since shopping is like 90% of what we leave the house for it would suck to not use the crutches, but going every day for a couple of items isn't exactly sustainable, it would probably kill me more than not using them. So I'm in a pickle here.

I wanted to make another profile so I can join some groups anonymously from a friend group.

I've tried a few knock off ones from Amazon but they're all very dense and rubbery and the seedlings can't grow through them.

Right now my crutches just lean against the wall behind my door when I'm not using them but it's a major pita as they fall over constantly. I tried looking for products but they all seem to be for clipping crutches to wheelchairs, rollators and chairs. Nothing for storing them in the house when not using them.

I'm in Canada and I'm pretty cold sensitive so I have to wear thick coats and several layers often. I just started using my crutches and since it's been warmer lately I hadn't encountered this problem before, but today was a cold spell and I tried to put on my winter coat and it wouldn't fit at all. I had to put on a much thinner coat and was cold.