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Subject: Re: walking sticks
Hi Suze I was 20 when I started using my walking sticks (I had the moulded handle fisher sticks which are easier to use when your wrists don't bend much). I'm fortunate that I only needed them for a couple of years - I don't need them now, although have just found out I'm pregnant so have had to come off my meds and foresee a difficult eight months ahead of me where the sticks are going to make a reappearance. It bothered me that I had to use a stick but not what other people thought. In fact, my friends were brilliant about it and used to "dress it up"!!! At Christmas it was covered in tinsel. When we used to go out to the pubs it became their pole for dancing and we used to poke cocktail brollies into the holes. I used to decorate it with really nice hair toggles (you know the ones with the flowers on them). I found it helped to treat the stick as an accessory - much like specatacles, no-one likes wearing them, and they make you feel old, but you might as well chose the ones that look the best!!! I hope you and your sticks become firm friends. Loulou x
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