Running errands
Errands can include getting to doctors’ appointments, doing your shopping, and paying your bills. Challenges can be due to:
- Pain making it difficult to get out to doctor’s offices, stores, and banks.
- Weakness and fatigue can also make it hard to get to the places you need to, and/or to carry the stuff you buy.
- Memory problems can make it hard to remember when your appointments are, when your bills are due, and/or what you want to buy.
Treatment involves overcoming these challenges:
- The treatments for weakness described earlier can help you build the needed strength.
- The treatments for fatigue described earlier can help you conserve your energy so you can the energy to get around the way you want.
- The treatments for pain described earlier can help you move with less pain.
- An occupational therapist can help you with memory tools to remember things like doctors’ appointments and shopping lists.