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spiritually my hair reaches my waist, physically i look like the ugliest lesbian ever.

A bunch of resources I've found as I've been learning about canes and how to use them ...

➡️ Physiopedia - types of canes, types of handles/grips, and how to use your cane

➡️ Mayo Clinic - How to size your cane, how to walk with it, and how to go up and down stairs

➡️ Pathways - Signs you might need a mobility aid

🎥 Video by Vive Health - demonstration of correct sizing and how to position your cane when walking, featuring a quad cane

🎥 Video by Orthopedic One - longer demonstration of how to walk with cane as well as demonstration of how to go up and down stairs

➡️ Web MD - what a cane is useful for, 3 types of cane, and how to use a cane (including how to go between standing and sitting)

🎥 Front Row with Ed and Elizabeth - how not to use a cane

➡️ Seniors Mobility - How does a cane help, how to walk with a cane, how to use a cane for balance, how a cane can help with back pain, and when you might need crutches instead

➡️ Med Plus Health - Canes vs walkers/rollators

Please feel free to reblog and add to this list or let me know if you've got a better resource for any of these topics ✌️

wouldn't it be so funny if someone liked me for me and not for my body or what i can do for them?? wouldn't that be crazy??

i miss when AI didn’t exist and we wrote heartfelt letters to our lovers that died in war and spent the rest of our days haunting the shoreline, leading sailors to their doom as they mistook our crying for singing.

— Evelyn Graham Frost, ‘Memory’

"I ate extra bleached paper as a child." "what are you? a cop?" "immortality costs an arm and a leg, I'm on a loan." "you know that fear of getting caught in an escalator?" "it's a long story including, (insert unhinged items), (random person)< (weird location)" (switch it up each time)

Some funny/less paltable things you can say when people invasively ask why you have a mobility aid!

"It's a weapon."

Ignore them

Something dramatic like "Oh I was attacked by a shark" or "I got caught in a zombie apocalypse"

"It's to spice up my outfit"

"I tried to build an army of insert favorite animal and they turned on me :("

"What insert mobility aid?"

"Why do you have an insert mobility aid?"

"Why do you not have an insert mobility aid"

"Do I know you?"

"Yeah I guess I just couldn't wait for my 60s"

"Just to bother you."

"Just to confuse you."

"Wouldn't you like to know"

"I went through a wildly traumatic experience, thanks for asking"

RB/comment your go-to when somebody asks about your mobility aid!

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025