Immediate family seem to have a tough time believing anything could possibly be wrong - when I first starting using a cane my uncle said that he was sure I could walk through the fields at the farm without the cane if I just decided to - that would have been impossible and about 15 years ago my mother said - just walk Karen - that was after 20 years of MS and a cane - now they're gone and I am at the 35 year point - I would think that they all would rather that I used a cane and you a walker if that kept us from falling !!