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This is just a guess...but I suspect you thought you were in a different forum for this one?

Then again, I woke up about four hours earlier than I wanted to and I've just started my first cup of coffee...which I accidentally put milk into...yech.

Hey Tamara, welcome to this wonderful site. I know, people must sound like followers of Jim Jones in here but it really is a magnificent resource...and no-one will give you any Kool-aid to drink. At least I don't think so.

I'm glad that you already know about the cane and I'm also sad that you already about it too.

Happy New Year Tamara

Thanks,
Yeah I knew about the cane. but have always been a bit shy about using it. I think most of the ideas are grand. I think in this type of forum you must pick a choose what information will work for you. I love reading about it all and have a few new ideas to try.. Toying with the NSD.. Don't know if I have the will power. There are so many things I love that have been taken away right now like Hiking that to take away something else that gives me pleasure might put me over the edge.

I was just talking to my wife today about the NSD. She seemed a bit annoyed that I would be so stupid as to not try it. I told her it is something that I will likely get around to one day, but it is second to last on my list....LAST would be to become a heroin addict or something.
I just happen to love starchy foods and can't get excited over soya beans. I am reminded of my long-hair days when a woman came up to me at some festival offering "macrobiotic brownies". I considered it until she showed me this grey muck that honestly looked like vomit...or worse.
I know NSD isn't like that but I knew so many people who were convinced that they could change the world through one diet fad or another that I am just sort of jaded by the whole process.

I want a steak and some pasta with big slabs of garlic bread and I want it now. Crap! I am really hungry all of a sudden.

I know what you mean, Emma

There is a psychological barrier in so many people's minds. I would never have considered it in a million years if not for that day out shopping with my wife. I was in pain, there they were, I tried one out and...I liked it.

My whole purpose for sharing was to get the word out. I was afraid there might be a lot of people our age who simply hadn't considered it...like me. Even if I only had it around for those horrible days, it would be great. As others have mentioned above, getting into the habit of bringing it along keeps the worst of those bad days at arms length, just a little bit longer.
I have actually forgotten my cane when rushing out of the house in past couple of weeks. I sorely regret it very soon afterwards. Just a quick stroll down the street to the store will start out great and after a hundred yards or so, I'm looking back towards home like a scolded puppy, wishing I had brought my cane!

Hey Marcat,

This really is a wonderful place. I just know you'll love it too.

Onterrible eh? I sure was glad to wipe the dust of that place off my boots when I got out west. You've got quite the advantage where real-estate costs are concerned though. In moments of weakness I wonder if my family would be better off living in a small town in Southern Ontario...then I'll see my wife in her fleecy robe and bunny slippers running for the thermostat (which I will turn down whenever it occurs to me) and imagine what life with white-outs, power failures, black ice and snow-shovelling would be like? Then again, I do miss the autumn. There is no place like S. Ont in the fall. Trips out to the sugarbush for real maple syrop, tobbaganing and Christmas carolling...aw, now I'm getting all homesick.

I hope you and your lovely family have a fantastic New Year!

(she doesn't really have bunny-slippers...well, not yet anyway..lol)

LOL you crack me up. I have thought about it researched and shopped and came to conclusion that I can not do the NSD. I give anyone tha can creidt. Call me weak or just a nice sized Italian/American woman that loves to cook, feed her family, (I get more satisfaction from watching other people eat my food than eating it myself) and EAT what I want to when i want to.. I will cut the starch down for sure, that is the best I can do right now. I think I need a cane that telescopes and I can fit in my purse so I can take it out when I need it.. I have found in the last week that even though I took it out of the closet I am not grabbing it when I leave the house. Does anyone know of a good brand.. Or even if they make one?

Ah-Haaa! There it is. Finally. I knew it! Homesick for Ontari-airi-airio eh! LOL Oh yes, I've been waiting for this moment, about time too.

Happy New Years to you in lovely BC, Tired!
mig

Hi Tired!
Nice to meet you.
I thought everyone had snow out west these days?!?! How did you manage to avoid it? Thankfully we haven't had much in the way of black ice and power failures (well...okay it flicks off all the time and we havt to keep resetting the clocks...but not true power failures ), but we did get a fresh 10 cm of snow last night for good measure. Time to send those kids outside to shovel.
Btw, your wife definitely needs a pair of bunny slippers! (Doesn't every woman!!!???
Happy New Year to you!
Marcat (Mary)

Absolutely. The cane I first noticed was one that folds up like a tent-pole (so not exactly telescoping). I didn't think that was a good way for me to go since I can put a good deal of weight on a cane when I need to. The only drawbacks in my mind would be the problem with entropy (moving parts will fail more quickly than no moving parts), the fact that you couldn't modify it to fit you perfectly (not easily anyway) and it just didn't have that secure feeling about it.
I bet you could find any sort of cane you could imagine.
I found mine in a drug store but there are medical suppliers in your area, I'm sure.

Good luck with that.

P.S. reading your post made me hungry.