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What I've yet to master –– not that I can say honestly that I've mastered anything about using a cane (LOL) –– are steps. The YouTube tutorials make it look oh so easy. Oh, yeah? An example of what a klutz I am when it comes to using a cane to negotiate steps is the two teeny-tiny steps leading out of my dentist's office. Before Covid, patients came & went by the front door (no steps!); since Covid, patients are asked to use the back door, which leads to those two teeny-tiny steps before your shoes are on the sidewalk. I refuse to go out the back door. I've mentioned my balance problems. The reaction I get is "Oh? So? There are only two steps." Just so I can go out the front door, I've taken to making up the lamest of excuses: "I left my cell phone in the waiting room," "My chauffeur will be waiting for me out front," yadda yadda.
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I concur Ray. I totally avoid steps when possible. I haven’t been in my backyard for ages. There is a deck off my back door with 8 steps going down to the yard. It’s too dangerous to maneuver. I have trouble with the 2 inch drop down to my porch off the front door. To leave my house I need a transport, which can be very expensive. So far I’ve been able to manage alone, but fear that day may be coming. I tried for many years to find out what is wrong going from doctor to doctor, having test after test, bloodwork after bloodwork to no avail until December. At this point, I am well past the cane stage and need my Rollator all the time and the wheelchair on occasion. I was also extremely discouraged when I was searching Lyrica and Cymbalta and discovered there are some serious side effects and there may be a class action lawsuit starting.