Originally Posted by catra121

So...you and ballerina are BOTH getting greedy, huh?

But seriously...I am so happy to hear all of this. I really hope that I have this to look forward to in my future. I have a pink walker and one of my canes is blue and the other black (both are the kind that fold up so I can take them with me in the walker if I have to). The blue one was a new purchase this past weekend...guess I didn't tell you guys about that.

This past weekend my boyfriend had the weekend off (this never happens) so he told me Friday morning that he wanted us to go up his family's house on a lake in Wisconsin and go fishing. I was game...didn't look forward to the long drive for only two day but figured it would be alright because I have been feeling good lately. Talk about one of those trips where anything that COULD go wrong definitely tried to go wrong. One of the big things was that about 2 hours into the drive my boyfriend realized he didn't put my walker in the car and left it in the driveway at home...ugh! Rather than cancel the trip we called his mom who put the walker in our house and we bought me another cane at the 24 hours Walmart (because where else are you going to get a cane at 2am). So I had a day and a half with ONLY using the cane.

It was awful. I am definitely not nearly ready for that. May pain was so much worse in my ankle and my right arm (the one holding the cane). Ever since we got back my ankle hasn't been quite the same...but I am hoping that with the tDCS treatments that it will get back in line soon. Oh well...good news is that I was actually able to go fishing and caught 35 fish in the 7 hours total that we spent on the water between the two days. Had to alter my fishing technique a little bit because of the RSD but I made it work. It hurt but I'm sure you know what it means to be able to do something you enjoy despite the pain. Definitely have to wear gloves because not a chance I could touch the cold fish to take them off the hook without causing a flare. Oh well...I'll take what I can get.

So yeah...not ready to go without the walker yet...but hopefully some day. Just hope I didn't set myself back too bad with the walking with just a cane for a day and a half. It wasn't much walking but it was the hill and uneven ground to get down to the pier that did it more anything else I think. I am also VERY wobbly on the cane still. I guess it's easy to take the walker for granted and how much it really helps until you really don't have it at all.

You just be careful with that baseball...would hate for you to have another injury. I used to be a pitcher and I got clocked a number of times on the mound when pitching...not much time to react there if something comes back at you. But definitely enjoy yourself at the party...you deserve it!