Hi MrsD,

I am just changing over to an aluminium stick with an ergonomically designed handle now my weight has come down below the manufacturer's limit. It is much lighter and easier to use than my antique carved wooden African stick. I just - stupidly - get lulled into a sense of false security indoors and think I can do without. Many times, like these last two damaging falls, nothing would have made a difference, I would even have flattened a Walker.

I have no PT planned, they write me off as a 'Lost Cause' as they cannot butcher me. My PM Team may be able to offer something more, maybe another round of acupuncture. I am wary of traditional Physios after I had one at my local Clinic try to manipulate fused vertebrae in my lower back.

At the moment the plan is to keep taking the pain killers and muddle through til my PM appt next month.

Dave.