{"id":12639,"date":"2024-09-17T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balancebelt.net\/?p=12639"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:01:09","slug":"eileen-runciman-from-scotland-shares-her-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balancebelt.net\/nl\/eileen-runciman-from-scotland-shares-her-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Eileen Runciman uit Schotland deelt haar verhaal:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\"Mijn leven is hersteld tot wat het 5 jaar geleden was\"<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ik ben een 85-jarige grootmoeder van vier kleinkinderen en woon sinds mijn man afgelopen december overleed aan Alzheimer zelfstandig. Ik beheer nu in mijn eentje ons huis met drie slaapkamers en een vrij grote tuin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ik streef ernaar om in 2025 naar een sociale huurwoning te gaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mijn werk als ergotherapeut werd in 1993 onderbroken toen ik polymyalgia rheumatica kreeg, een aandoening die negen jaar duurde. Ik was bezig met het inrichten van een nieuw huis vanwege de verandering van baan van mijn man en hielp mee met de zorg voor mijn bejaarde ouders, die grote medische problemen hadden. Dat was allemaal nogal stressvol voor mij. Maar ik maakte wel wat tijd vrij om de tuin op te ruimen en voor anderen te breien en te naaien. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toen ik hersteld was, probeerde ik weer piano te spelen en raakte ik betrokken bij het maken van kostuums voor een toneelgroep. Ik deed maar weinig aan lichaamsbeweging, maar ik deed mijn best!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ongeveer 5 jaar geleden had ik een alarmerende ervaring in bed: de hele kamer draaide om me heen. De oorzaak werd me uitgelegd: een storing in het evenwichtsorgaan van mijn linkeroor! Dit zou vanzelf kunnen verdwijnen, maar in mijn geval was dat niet zo. Mijn evenwicht werd niet meteen aangetast; pas geleidelijk aan en rond de tijd van Covid merkte ik dat mijn evenwicht achteruit was gegaan. Ik gebruikte mijn stok veel vaker (ik heb ernstige artritis in mijn linkervoet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ik weigerde een trap op of af te gaan zonder een leuning of iemand die me hielp. Mijn familie begon het op te merken en verbood me ladders te beklimmen of naar zolder te gaan. Tuinieren werd erg beperkt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024 liet Sue Hamilton, een vriendin uit het dorp, een groepje van ons tijdens de wekelijkse Church Tea-Room haar nieuwe 'speeltje' zien: de BalanceBelt. Ik was meteen verkocht, zoals vissers zeggen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zodra ik in april 2024 mijn proefversie van de BalanceBelt omdeed, wist ik dat het zou helpen. Mijn loopvermogen verbeterde, ik voelde me veiliger in huis, ik kon omhoog kijken en mijn hoofd opzij draaien zonder duizelig te worden. Ik realiseerde me dat ik 's nachts nog steeds mijn rollator nodig had, omdat je een balansriem niet in bed kunt dragen. Dat is sowieso de oplaadtijd. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tijd om me te laten testen bij de Balance Clinic in Edinburgh, voordat ik deze magische riem kocht, die de kat niet begrijpt \u2013 hij zoemt zachtjes! Er werd mij verteld dat mijn slechte evenwicht mijn leven be\u00efnvloedde met 46%. Ik had de riem nodig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mijn leven is weer zoals het vijf jaar geleden was. Ik ben weer goed gaan tuinieren, stap over planten heen, reik en buig in alle richtingen en til weer zware dingen. Ik ben zelfs sneller in huis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Als je hulp nodig hebt bij het evenwicht, probeer dan de riem. Laat een fysiotherapeut je evenwicht testen met en zonder de riem en vraag om een schriftelijk rapport voordat je tot aankoop overgaat.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Als u vliegt, heeft u een speciale brief van  bron nodig om door de veiligheidscontrole te komen. Als u luchthavenassistentie heeft en in een rolstoel zit, doe dan de riem af zodat de veiligheidscontrole deze apart kan controleren. 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