Poll: Do you use a cane?
Living with chronic pain often means needing support - sometimes occasionally, sometimes all the time. Earlier today, we had a guest post from someone who has a cane and walking stick business (In My Humble Opinion, By the Cane Man®)
so I’d like to know how many of my readers use them.
Please, if you have more information to add or if you’re here because of someone else being in pain, you can add that into the comments as well - if that person uses a walking aid.
Do you use a cane or walking aid?
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6 opinions for Poll: Do you use a cane?
Sigmund Kerns
Jun 24, 2008 at 1:06 am
I’ve “been obliged to use a cane,” thanks to an injury sustained during government service, for over 25 years . . . and I like to switch around and use different “fancy” canes! After all, why must one’s cane look like it’s a sickroom supply? “Rootball knob top” canes in hawthorne, blackthorn, and sassafrass; AND artificial versions in polypropolyene plastic (a/k/a “African Walking Stick” and “Irish Shellaigh” knob-top copies from COLD STEEL LTD.) AND several “ball-topped” cane-heads (bone skull; chrome, and brass, skulls; and ivory cue ball) assembled on the base of a steel-core carbon-fiber antenna mast, cut to length; AND brass and chrome horse-harness-hame-ball canes, and more. Even top-quality rapier (”+”-cross-section) and sword-bladed “sword canes!”
Yes, I have a lot of canes . . . and even three shepherds’ crook types–two old GI-issue models, and one clear Lexan, which has the hook and crook two inches wider and deeper than “standard” canes!
Everything is regularly used (’cept maybe the old USGIs) depending on circumstances, where I’ll be going, the weather, how fancy I wanna dress, and so forth. And I’ll even use the sword or rapier canes when investigating odd noises in the back lot at zero-dark-thirty!
I’ve needed a cane to augment a crippled leg and spinal injuries for 25+ years, and I “grew out of” reliance on sickroom supply canes about 23+ years ago.
Those hand-hurting, drab, crook-head canes are depressing, and they also scream “INVALID!”
I decided that, in my case, “invalid” was an “in-valid” label. I “gimped” my way to newspaper editorship, using canes, so it certainly was “in-valid.”
If you HAVE to use a cane, WHY use a “sickroom supply” or “drugstore” cane? There’re lots of handsome sticks available that are even easier on your hand than the “drugstore specials!” Pick one that “says something” about you!
Happy gimping!
Marijke Durning, RN
Jun 24, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Sigmund, what a wonderful comment for us. I really enjoyed reading it. I am going to include it in an upcoming post of favorite comments. Thank you very much and I do hope you come back again.
Marijke
Charles Gollott
Aug 17, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I would like to know who made the cane author Will Campbell uses. I know it was handmade and would love to have one like. I use a cane all the time.
Marijke Durning, RN
Aug 18, 2008 at 7:30 am
Hi Charles - I’ll see what I can find out. Please stop by and see if I have an answer for you!
Marijke Durning, RN
Aug 18, 2008 at 11:42 am
Charles, I asked and is this the Will Campbell you mean? If not, could you be more specific and would you know where we can find a photo?
“Will Campbell, ordained as a Baptist preacher in backwoods Mississippi, was the only white minister present at the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He escorted nine black students through angry mobs at Central High School in Little Rock. He was present at sit-ins, civil rights demonstrations, and strategy meetings with Martin Luther King.”
Barbara
Aug 25, 2008 at 7:40 pm
What does one do when both sides of their back are in pain. Using one cane can only help one side. How do you use two canes? What is the trick to it?
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