Please note that my post, which kicked off this thread, was merely an invitation to read an Op-Ed piece in yesterday's NY Times. The situation described by the writer is not my situation. What I found of particular interest was how she describes what it feels like to have poor balance and an unsteady gait. ("You are an astronaut, floating and flailing through space, while everyone surrounding you seems to be on terra firma.") I'm fortunate in that I've not fallen, at least not recently. Still, I'm acutely aware of what it's like to try explaining to a first-appointment doctor or a friend for the first time what poor balance and unsteady gait feel like when the cause is not due to aging – or at least not entirely due to aging – but to PN. Almost every time, I find myself saying, "No, I'm not dizzy," and "I've been checked for vertigo, and it's not an inner ear problem." I'm always on the hunt for new and creative ways to describe what I feel, and now I think I'll the Op-Ed writer "astronaut floating and flailing through space" approach. 😀