Two weeks ago I went to John, my prosthetist, to pick up my new right leg socket.  I needed a new one because my stump had shrunk.  I was using 5 or 6 socks to keep a tight seal.

John said I was walking so well with the walker that I should see a physical therapist about learning to walk with a cane and then without help.  I ordered a cane from Amazon the next day.  Free shipping would make the thing come in about a week.

Thursday we were in a strip mall doing errands that included lunch and checking out motorized scooters for an upcoming cruise.  I am walking well but Lord am I slow.  Brooke can get to some place where she can sit down and play 2 games of Candy Crush while I go 30 yards.  This would not do on a cruise ship.

Brooke met a guy on a cruise on a motorized chair that was narrow enough to navigate the halls and the dining rooms on a ship.  We went into Texas Medical Supply to see how a scooter would break down and how heavy it would be.

All the scooters seemed a little big.  This was bad because it takes up half the elevator on a ship.  I’ve been part of a crowd that is silently pissed when the elevator doors open and it’s filled with one person on a scooter and 4 people.

The store had canes at the counter like impulse items.  I fell for it because I thought the Amazon cane was coming in 3 days.  I figured the sooner I start using the thing the better.

The Amazon cane came the next day.  I’m only using one cane to what can loosel;y be defined as walk.  It looks and feels like a cross between a waddle and a controlled fall.  The canes are named Virgil and Kwai Chang.