Sorry...it's our different language! It's one of the frames that the old are given to help them keep mobile. To A young person in the UK it is a sign that you are really old and combined with "an old person's disease" there is no hope. Our language is so different.....thanks to my daughter having worked in the USA I was able to understand the posting last week when someone described falling on their fanny. In the UK that is an entirely different part of the female anatomy, and one that caused Lucy enormous embarrassment when she first went to NY!! regards Emma >What's a ZImmer frame? > ---------- >the nurse at the >>Hospital made a typical PD stupid remark! WhenI told her that I had PD >she >>said, in all seriousness, that she had better not give me crutches, I had >>better have a Zimmer frame.!! At 45years old I nearly clouted her. > >