BTW, the stuff about walkers, etc. Before my dad finally started using a walker, he had a cane. He'd hold the cane straight out in front of him like it was a sword. I said, Um, dad, you really need to put the cane ON the GROUND--holding it out in front of you isn't going to break a fall. He FINALLY practiced using the walker, and got pretty good at it, but as things got worse we finally convinced him to get a wheelchair (which he's used for years when they were still traveling). When I asked this week why he wasn't going out for meals, he said it was too hard to go that distance. I said, doesn't the wheelchair help? He said, we don't have a wheelchair. I said, I thought you did. He said, well, we did, but we weren't really using it so we sent it back. Aaaarrrghh!!!!