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@dbeshears1 - You are funny!! My cane - so, on my 50th birthday, 23 years ago, my nephew gave me a wood cane.,,,getting old, all that stuff. Did not need it then so I hung it in the coat closet. Never forget, he said to me on my 50th..."someday you'll need it". True, and as it turned out, he was right. That someday came 20 years later at 70. I dug it out of the closet and said to myself I wonder how I should use this?? Walking sticks are not as easy for me.
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Me too: I used to have a couple of beautiful wood canes lying about, never used as canes, just propped up here and there as decorative pieces. When I first realized I might actually have to use a cane, thanks to my PN, I set my heart on finding a solid silver wolf's-head cane like the one Claude Raines carried in the classic 1941 Wolf Man flick –– not that I'm expecting to be attacked by a werewolf anytime soon.
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I'm guessing when someone says "walking sticks," they are mean the same as "trekking poles." I have my cane, an adjustable, metal cane with a curved handle that I bought at a local pharmacy for surprisingly few dollars. I set the cane at what seems a comfortable 36" length. I also have two trekking poles, which I've owned for many years but rarely used. Since PN, I've tried a little gravel path walking with the poles; but, now that also use my cane, set to 36", I discovered that I'd had my trekking poles set to much too long a length. No wonder after only a short walk on a gravel path my shoulders would ache so much! LOL