I've been calling it neuropathy for many years. It started with mild numbness in my feet.
Then this numbness got worse and hence dangerous. I fell down stairs and broke my knee because I didn't have full and quick control of one of my feet. Tingling goes with it now, but it's not there all of the time. I'm very careful on stairs. I can never let my feet use stairs automatically as I did years ago. I have to be aware of every movement and every stage of the placement of feet. i don't usually assay large stairways therefore, but I have to use them at my son's house, so I hang on with my arms to the bannister.

My knee healed well, yet the experience was not only expensive (in a facility for months)
but emotionally draining....just one more thing to make people know you are not fully there. You are a liability. That's the way my family is, anyway, although I know some of you have families who want to care.