Milestone

[cosmolinguist]

After I came home from yesterday's work trip -- going in to town after dark (so, 5pm) to look at a streetlight -- I realized I probably don't need my heavy awkward white cane tailored for hiking off-road trials for everyday use any more.

My ankle feels fine almost all the time now and doesn't need the kind of support I was using it for these last nine months.

I put it away with the others (I have four or five canes now, for reasons), swapped it for the fanciest one to celebrate the milestone.

(The fanciest one is the "no jab" cane, which has a big spring inside so when you run into some uneven pavement or some other obstacle, it doesn't wrench your wrist or jab you in the belly (bruises are common among new long cane users...and probably old ones too). It has a fancy red leather handle too, (probably to help justify its cost!).

And last night I added some rainbow tape to it -- only the bottom segment so far; I like a lot of white on my white canes but also I like the idea of making it look more queer.

I used it on today's work trip -- to Liverpool and back -- and it was fine.

Comments

[barakta]

Canes are like shoes, you need multiple for purposes! No-jab canes sound great!

Also jazzing up your crip-kit is the best thing to do with it after using it.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah I'm not normally a big jazzer of white canes because I like them being recognizably white. But I figure a little rainbow tape at the bottom (where USian ones would be red, again just for added visibility not indicating dual sensory loss like it does here) is fine.