Why, yes! I still carry a cane

[justalurkr]

1. For getting up in the middle of the night (mostly for the headlight)

2. For the later hours of the day when I am tired and my knee hurts and screw what my PT said anyway.

3. For every time I get out of the car in a handicapped parking spot, because I do not want to die.

They're always watching.

Comments

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes the "Why are you parking there" brigade. Pfui

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I want to rip my permit off the rearview mirror and wave it in their faces, but it's already kind of falling to pieces.

[nialla]

I still carry mine around in case I get overly tired while I'm out, or more recently, because I'm dealing with a sciatica flare up.

I often use it more for keeping people from getting too close and bumping into me. It wouldn't take much to knock me over some days. The cane acts as a safety device twice over.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

My cane is totally going to Dragoncon with me just for the spacemaking purposes, even though I'm meant to be pretty much done with "mobility aids" by then.

Sorry to hear about the sciatica thing. :(

[nialla]

When I went with my book club to the big RT Booklover's con in Dallas, I was still pretty bad on the whole back and sciatica thing. They all promised to help me, whether it was to drag a chair to me so I could sit, or let me lean on them a bit if I was unsteady. I did both at times.

Best thing I did was get a folding cane. I got a lightweight backpack that could hold it and snacks, plus some of the swag I picked up. I walked as long as I could, then out came the cane and I had even more room for swag.

Sciatica has calmed down to normal levels. Mainly because the brain can only deal with one major bit of pain at a time, and the migraines came back in force. If it's not one damn thing, it's another.