Two weeks ago I went to John, my prosthetist, to pick up my new right leg socket. \u00a0I needed a new one because my stump had shrunk. \u00a0I was using 5 or 6 socks to keep a tight seal.<\/p>\n
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. \u00a0I ordered a cane from Amazon the next day. \u00a0Free shipping would make the thing come in about a week.<\/p>\n
Thursday we were in a strip mall doing errands that included lunch and checking out motorized scooters for an upcoming cruise. \u00a0I am walking well but Lord am I slow. \u00a0Brooke can get to some place where she can sit down and play 2 games of Candy Crush while I go 30 yards. \u00a0This would not do on a cruise ship.<\/p>\n
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. \u00a0We went into Texas Medical Supply<\/a> to see how a scooter would break down and how heavy it would be.<\/p>\n All the scooters seemed a little big. \u00a0This was bad because it takes up half the elevator on a ship. \u00a0I’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.<\/p>\n The store had canes at the counter like impulse items. \u00a0I fell for it because I thought the Amazon cane was coming in 3 days. \u00a0I figured the sooner I start using the thing the better.<\/p>\n The Amazon cane came the next day. \u00a0I’m only using one cane to what can loosel;y be defined as walk. \u00a0It looks and feels like a cross between a waddle and a controlled fall. \u00a0The canes are named Virgil and Kwai Chang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two weeks ago I went to John, my prosthetist, to pick up my new right leg socket. \u00a0I needed a new one because my stump had shrunk. \u00a0I 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 … Continue reading Going from 6 legs to 3<\/span>