I'm plotting a trip to Newfoundland this summer, while I can still walk a bit. But even with the "bit" left, I'm wondering how best to get around. I hate my giganto unsexy walker. It looks old-lady-ish and is huge. A three wheeled one is smaller but doesn't come with the welcome seat. Canes are difficult to manage if you want to use your hands. I don't have a scooter.
Went looking on Amazon to see if I could find a sexy all terrain walker. Yep. It's there. Cheaper one costs tons. More expensive one is around the $1000 mark.
This being a crip ain't cheap.
So I'm emailing the people in Nfld and asking them how I can see as much as possible given my limitations. And they are coming through, charming folk that they are. The place where I'm staying near Gros Morne, Entente Cordiale, gave me a whole list of places I could see "just from your car". Others give me hints of activities still open to me.
I suspect I am going to like this place.
I just wish I had the right equipment to get around there. Any suggestions?
A blog about living with MS. Why Mad Sow? In homage to Denny Crane, on the TV program Boston Legal. Every time he forgot something, he'd point to his head and say "Mad Cow." I refer to my MS, primarily a cognitive thing at present, as my Mad Sow.
Showing posts with label walking aids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walking aids. Show all posts
May 7, 2012
January 30, 2012
Wondering what to do...
I have to make a trip by plane to Ottawa. Here's the problem...do I take my cane, which is some help to me but which isn't a LOT of help to me, if you know what I mean - or do I take my bulky rollator, all shiny black four wheels of it? I can walk SO much better with it, but I probably won't be walking much and it's so bulky. On the other hand, in addition to MS I am having knee problems and there is a significant difference in pain if I use the rollator to walk.
Hmm. How much of a crip do I want to be?
I am lusting after a little collapsible 3 wheeled rollator but it's $100 I don't have at present. So....
Any advice, MSers?
Hmm. How much of a crip do I want to be?
I am lusting after a little collapsible 3 wheeled rollator but it's $100 I don't have at present. So....
Any advice, MSers?
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