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On Sat, 12 Oct 1996 17:21:01 -0400 Martha Rohrer wrote: > Usually it has happened in the supermarket. When we arrive there, >he is zipping around with no problem walking or with balance. >About the time we arrive at the point in the store about as far from the >car as one can get, he begins to get heavy feet. So far, this has given him >enough time to leave and return to the car. Moments later, however, he can >barely move. He always totes his quad cane with him wherever he goes, and >usually it barely touches the ground. It is a security blanket. He has left >it behind at the bananas, or at the coffee aisle, or where he was mulling >over which brand of cereal provided the most beneficial fiber, only to miss >it aisles later at the dairy section when his feet suddenly turned to lead. >The result has been that I get my exercise racing up and down the length of >the store looking for the missing appendage. I wonder if there is anything special about supermarkets?? The lighting, perhaps?? While I do not have a cane (good idea!), the carts furnished by the supermarkets are my saviors. I start out by pushing it with ease, and usually end up leaning on it more & more -- and many times I have even considered climbing into it to be pushed around by someone, if only I could maneuver my body into the cart ;<) Margaret Tuchman(54yrs,dx1980) [log in to unmask] *******************************************************************