Howdy Cowboy.
I wish I could tell you what's wrong, but I'm an 83 year-old "Techno Wimp of the First Water," unfitted for the modern world.
I will keep ploughing on, and come back to you when in a position to describe where I am.
I assume you are new to this forum ... so briefly, my wife is about to turn 80. Her right arm was crippled (shoulder elbow, wrist and grip) by a doctor when she was three days old ... right procedure if carried out immediately she was born. She never let it hold her back. I taught her to drive in a 1951 Sunbeam Talbot 90, on Penang Island. She had on professional (appraisal ) lesson before taking/passing her test in South London. She has driven some brutal cars, historic rallied her TVR, and been stopped on the M4 twice, at well over 100mph in her Honda CRX. Clean licence and full NCD. Hit 125mph in a Ferrari, round Silverstone ... for her 70th birthday ... best prezzy ever.
Now only a few days from her 80th birthday, she is now unable to stand without something to hang onto due to arthritis in both knees. Virtually all walking aids require two hands, but she has a power-chair with single handed joystick control.
A couple of months ago, she needed to visit the dentist ... who said that next time she will need to transfer to the proper dentist's chair (which ain't going to happen). On returning to her car, she was unable to transfer back onto the car seat, and spent a long time hanging onto the passenger door, gradually getting weaker, not helped by advice from the passing
rubber necks Getting into the driver's seat is easier, as she can use the steering wheel as a struggling bar. She recently drove her car (first time since Lock-Down started). No problem apart from finding the clutch pedal painful to use, so it looks like we are going to be disposing of the Freelander, and trading in her Hyundai Ix20 Scortched Cat Mobile, for an automatic.
I'm joining the same club, unable to bend either knee more than 90 degree, so limping with both legs, taking 6" steps. If somewhere is more than 50 yards away, I either take the car, or don't go.
Power to your elbow!
602 (John)
PS. This morning, Barbara was transferring from the bed to her power-hair, and got stuck sitting on the very edge of the mattress, unable to continue into her power-chair, nor back into bed. The only way was down, which would have meant "free-fall". She was there for nearly two hours, before able to get back into bed, and start again ... after cancelling the ambulance.
Nobody seems to care ... I suspect the Bean Counters.
602