Being a flaneur with mobility impairments?

[rydra_wong]

So, yeah.

I am recovering slowly from a Lisfranc injury. I am now allowed to walk (in rigid-soled shoes), but it's slow, tiring, and tends to make my foot ache; I have very very limited spoons for walking in a day.

Since I could previously walk for hours on end, this is a major blow. I can't stroll or absently wander anywhere any more. If I ever can again, it will be a fair while from now.

Anyone adapting flaneur-y to deal with mobility impairments? Flaneurs using public transport? Tip, advice, suggestions or constraints?

Comments

Re: These are my first thoughts (more later perhaps)

[kaberett]

This does sound pretty grim :-(

Re: These are my first thoughts (more later perhaps)

[rydra_wong]

Well, relative to the injury -- which is, I was comfortingly told, "the most difficult foot injury to treat" -- I've been really really lucky.

It got diagnosed correctly almost right away (apparently it's often missed because the breaks in the bone often only show up on weight-bearing X-rays), the joint was stable so it didn't need surgery, I only had to have five weeks of total non-weight-bearing, and apparently it all looks about as good at this stage as it possibly can.

So it could have been much much much worse. It's just an injury that by its nature heals slowly and sometimes incompletely.