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Living with PN, do you find yourself retreating from life?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Mar 5 10:44am | Replies (144)Comment receiving replies
🙂 I'm glad I made you smile. Yes, when we start doing heel lifts in the hope of improving our PN-induced yucky balance, we have to watch out for those low-lying door lintels. In "real life," the dermatologist I've been seeing for years still calls me "Outhouse Man," because the first time I saw her was because I kept bashing the top of my bald head on the low-lying entryway to our cabin's outhouse and had developed a minor "wound" that called for a doctor's attention. So you see, Joan, I come by my fear of low-lying door lintels honestly. 🙂 ––Ray, aka Outhouse Man (@ray666)
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Hi Outhouse Man, oops, Ray: You have earned your alternate name!
Many years ago, when camping in the Washington Cascades, my daughter and I found a lovely remote campsite, a one campsite campground! With only one campsite, and next to no other cars on the narrow dirt mountain road, there was little concern for privacy. Then we discovered it had an outhouse, but it was different: it had an "out" but no "house". Just the toilet seat elevated above the ground surrounded by the great outdoors. It was not visible from the road nor from the campsite unless one really worked at it. This resulted in a new term in our vocabulary. We're going to the "out". So now when a last minute trip is needed before heading somewere, we'll often hear the expression, "I'm headed to the "out", and it is totally understood.
Your tale of headbumping, while providing a trip to the dermatologist for you, brought back many wonderful memories for me of an "out" without a house.