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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / December 2006OTP - boy, what a cool cane!
i ordered a new cane for myself, last week, from a website that a friend sent me. it just arrived. it is sooooo way, way totally cool i can't wait to go someplace to use it! i'll tell you what, normally a cane (or pretty much anything that reminds me i'm a gimp, with rare exceptions) for a gift would get a "that's nice and polite thank you" from me. but if i got this cane for a gift, i'd be bounching off the walls with delight, as i am now--it's such a beautiful work of art! it's gorgeously crafted out of wood. just awesomely beautiful. and that's so incredible, because it was priced so reasonably for the quality. now, i'm looking at the other canes on that web site and thinking i want other colors too, because it feels so totally comfortable and solid to use. it feels so good, to use and to just look at. i bought the highlander blue, which is green, blue and light and dark brown wood, laminated with a gracefully fluid twist. and they cut it to my length specifications for no additional cost. yeppers, i think i'm going to order two more for myself, to match my moods.LOL hey, ordinarily, i don't get jazzed by walking canes, but this one is something special! i think maybe, i ought to buy stock in the company!!!LOL how in the heck can anybody love a cane? i do love this one, though. kate kate please send me the site. sounds great and i need one. janice |i ordered a new cane for myself, last week, from a website that a friend | sent me. it just arrived. it is sooooo way, way totally cool i can't wait [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] | | kate Cough up the web site kiddo or send it to me email. OKAY, pretty please. I am completely attached to my LEKI 'walker'. I am 75% on converting the 12' century plant center shoot that grew in my yard this year. I have made a traditional didjeridoo for Acacia out of the bottom 4' and am using the rest for a combo rattle snake catcher and trail walking pole. I make at least one walking stick a year and have learned you can never have enough unique and beautiful canes or hiking sticks. Sounds like you found a really nice one... johnie > i ordered a new cane for myself, last week, from a website that a friend > sent me. it just arrived. it is sooooo way, way totally cool i can't wait [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > kate oops, i forgot to include the url.LOL! <pressing on the end of my nose to let the air out of my head> here it is: http://www.fashionablecanes.com/store/wooden_colortone_walking_canes.html the shoot grew 12 feet in one year?! w0w! and i thought sequoias were fast growing! i'm always impressed by people who can make things like you do, johnie. making traditional didjeridoos is an artform, all its own. and playing one is a huge challenge. i still can't make a noise on the one i was given. what does a rattle snake catcher look like? kate Cough up the web site kiddo or send it to me email. OKAY, pretty please. I am completely attached to my LEKI 'walker'. I am 75% on converting the 12' century plant center shoot that grew in my yard this year. I have made a traditional didjeridoo for Acacia out of the bottom 4' and am using the rest for a combo rattle snake catcher and trail walking pole. I make at least one walking stick a year and have learned you can never have enough unique and beautiful canes or hiking sticks. Sounds like you found a really nice one... johnie d'huit wrote: > i ordered a new cane for myself, last week, from a website that a friend > sent me. it just arrived. it is sooooo way, way totally cool i can't [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > kate wow, kate they are gorgeous! they make me wish i could USE a cane, but since my wrists don't bend it's kind of pointless. :-( diane > wow, kate they are gorgeous! they make me wish i could USE a cane, but > since my wrists don't bend it's kind of pointless. :-( hey diane, Im fused too but I use one daily and also a walking stick. My canes are adjustable and the handle designed a bit wider so i put weight on top of it with the whole thing adjusted a little shorter than a normal wrist would use. I couldn't survive anymore without a good stick. Hope you can make one work fer ya. johnie interesting, johnie. maybe i'll experiment a little. diane wow, kate they are gorgeous! they make me wish i could USE a cane, but since my wrists don't bend it's kind of pointless. :-( diane i'm wondering how very much different the functional use of your wrists are than someone who has carpal tunnel and has to wear the wrist brace. the reason i'm asking is because i've used my cane while wearing a fairly rigid wrist brace. i guess it depends upon how or in what position a wrist is fused? kate >i'm wondering how very much different the functional use of your wrists are >than someone who has carpal tunnel and has to wear the wrist brace. the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >kate Mine are fused and holding onto a cane would be difficult. I always used platform crutches after surgery because physio and OT did not recommend for me to use a cane. Part of the problem is that one may put additional strain in through the ligaments of the fingers and mid-hand to compensate, which would cause additional difficulties. My elbows are contracted as well and I think that is part of teh total package of reasons of why a cane was never recommended for me. Maybe Diane is the same. Rose @}>->-- Being educated means that rather than fearing the unknown, one seeks to understand it. RB Please remove "Ima" to reply. kate, i just don't know. guess i would have to try one. the thought of leaning on a cane with my palm is both painful and impossible to picture. d d, the problem a lot of people have is not knowing at what height to set the cane. Your hand should be resting on the cane at waist level, so it becomes more of a support than your wrist taking all the weight. Haven't you seen some people who have canes actually lean down and over because the cane handle is set too low? When they walk that way, they really are putting too > kate, i just don't know. guess i would have to try one. the thought of > leaning on a cane with my palm is both painful and impossible to > picture. > > d > kate, i just don't know. guess i would have to try one. the thought of > leaning on a cane with my palm is both painful and impossible to > picture. > > d I hear ya diane - I sprained my ankle big, BIG time years ago - in that first horrendous flare of PA and before my carpal tunnel releases. Finger and wrists and elbows were all really painful. Doc wanted me on crutches - no way. Then how about a cane? no way. how about staying off it absolutely as much as you can? Sure. Platform crutches would have been good but a) they weren't as common back then, b) I had no health insurance at the time and 3) the student health center didn't have them, so I would have been paying money I didn't have to get them. At least the doc accepted what I told him about those upper body joints.  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > the shoot grew 12 feet in one year?! w0w! and i thought sequoias were fast > growing! Oh yea. There are several varieties of yucca that put out a center shoot and we have so many that every year there is a large crop available. I saw several this year that were at least 16' high and up to 6" in diameter at the base.They can get massive and growth occurs in a few months. Several years ago we did a short time lapse of one. It was kinda kewl. > i'm always impressed by people who can make things like you do, johnie. > making traditional didjeridoos is an artform, all its own. and playing one > is a huge challenge. and Im impressed by river dogs...I went out with my river dog pal a few seasons in the late 70's on the upper Rio Grande and as far as I am concerned that is an artform requiring a special gift to read the river. > what does a rattle snake catcher look like? Its just a long stick with a wire or leather loop at one end controlled waaay at the other end. We got several rattle snakes on the property and out on the edge of things we will always be encountering them. I grew up around a similar rattler so I would rather move them down the arroyo a-ways myself than call a firefighter each time to relocate them upstate. Hope your thanksgiving is grand. johnie hugh Oh yea. There are several varieties of yucca that put out a center shoot and we have so many that every year there is a large crop available. I saw several this year that were at least 16' high and up to 6" in diameter at the base.They can get massive and growth occurs in a few months. Several years ago we did a short time lapse of one. It was kinda kewl. ***that's amazing! sounds almost like how bamboo grows. i bet that time lapse was fun to see! and Im impressed by river dogs...I went out with my river dog pal a few seasons in the late 70's on the upper Rio Grande and as far as I am concerned that is an artform requiring a special gift to read the river. ***that sounds kinda like the old mississippi river pilots (ie. mark twain) > what does a rattle snake catcher look like? Its just a long stick with a wire or leather loop at one end controlled waaay at the other end. We got several rattle snakes on the property and out on the edge of things we will always be encountering them. I grew up around a similar rattler so I would rather move them down the arroyo a-ways myself than call a firefighter each time to relocate them upstate. ***oh. ok. now i know what it is! thanks. here you'd call animal control, instead of a fireman. sounds like a scary thing to do yourself, though. Hope your thanksgiving is grand. ***it was. i hope yours was, too, johnie. kate johnie hugh Thanks for the website, Kate. These are awesome! Nanny > oops, i forgot to include the url.LOL! <pressing on the end of my nose to > let the air out of my head> here it is: [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] >> >> kate you're welcome, nanny. the more i use it, the more i like it.<smile> i just love looking at it. kate Thanks for the website, Kate. These are awesome! Nanny > oops, i forgot to include the url.LOL! <pressing on the end of my nose to > let the air out of my head> here it is: [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] >> >> kate Ah, we need to get you out a bit more girl.... GaryZ >i ordered a new cane for myself, last week, from a website that a friend > sent me. it just arrived. it is sooooo way, way totally cool i can't [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > kate ROTFL!!! i hear you, gary.LOL there is just something visually tactile about beautiful craftsmanship, and the creative artistry that goes into it, that i am totally in tune with. i'm just as goofy about exquisite scuplture and the unintended sculpture one finds everywhere, whether in nature or in the accident of human design (like a plastic turnbuckle cover, i once discovered, that melted and ribboned down the cable towards its base in a very pretty way). but then, i also love art, in general, too.LOL oh, hell, i might as well fess up. i'm just plain goofy!lol kate Ah, we need to get you out a bit more girl.... GaryZ >i ordered a new cane for myself, last week, from a website that a friend > sent me. it just arrived. it is sooooo way, way totally cool i can't [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > kate I'm glad you enjoyed kate. I did look at the sight and they were very beautiful pieces of work. I'm glad you found them. I rec'vd the books today to go along with the training tapes (no tapes yet though). They have been written by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. who is involved with the program of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the Univ. of Mass. Med Center. Ordered 3 books as I can't do one at a time of anything. (lol)..."Full Catastrophe Living, Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness", "Wherever You Go, There you Are", Everyday Blessings, The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting". Got my work cut out for me in the next couple of weeks. Wish me luck. > ROTFL!!! i hear you, gary.LOL there is just something visually tactile > about beautiful craftsmanship, and the creative artistry that goes into [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > kate Hey Kate, I can totally understand loving a cane. I have two: one is paisley print, and the other one has flowers all over it and is the folding type, so I can take it along when we go out of town and it's compact and convenient. Your's sounds really neat! Nanny >i ordered a new cane for myself, last week, from a website that a friend > sent me. it just arrived. it is sooooo way, way totally cool i can't [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > kate Hey Kate, I can totally understand loving a cane. I have two: one is paisley print, and the other one has flowers all over it and is the folding type, so I can take it along when we go out of town and it's compact and convenient. Your's sounds really neat! Nanny whew! i'm not alone in loving canes.<smile> yours sound cool, too. the selection out there is amazing now, isn't it?! while on my cane search, i saw canes with bingo balls on them, tartan plaid canes, pictorals and all kinds of other things on them. isn't it fun to have canes that make statements about other things, besides functional limitation or physical decline?! back in the '70s, i had to use wooden crutches, non-weight-bearing, for over a year. i was in my early 20s and just hated how wooden crutches looked, expecially since they were practically my appendages for so long. partly for that reason and partly for survival reasons (people kicking them out from under me) i took my paints and brushes to them. you'd really laugh if you could have seen how LOUD those crutches were.LOL kate >i ordered a new cane for myself, last week, from a website that a friend > sent me. it just arrived. it is sooooo way, way totally cool i can't [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > kate I do my own according to my mood. It is currently pink with little smiley faces. It's a great conversation starter and I have little kids come up to me all the time. However, since going to that site, I may just have to get someone else's work as well. DeeTee > Hey Kate, I can totally understand loving a cane. I have two: one is > paisley print, and the other one has flowers all over it and is the [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] >> >> kate |
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