Subj : Re: Walking assists
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Dave Drum
Date : Sat Oct 15 2022 05:54:00

-=> Dale Shipp wrote to Carol Shenkenberger <=-

 CS> I'm with ya on the cane use 'like a tight line walker balance'. 
 CS> That's me on stairs.  In airports now, I need a wheel chair assist.

 DS> I have been using a cane for several years, and a rollator for about a
 DS> year.  The cane can be good if one has a gimpy leg (e.g. knee surgery)
 DS> but questionable if the problem is balance (mine is balance, etc.).
 DS> Where we now live in a community of senior citizens, I get to see all
 DS> sorts of assistive devices.  One that is intriguing to me is people
 DS> walking with two walking sticks that look almost like ski polls.

That's another "Diffrent strokes" thing. I began using a stick when I
broke my ankle some years ago. I find that I'm OK on the flats. But
uneven footing is much easier to navigate using the cane. Or changing
elevation - like stepping up or down from a kerb. And especially on 
slick surfaces (coming up soon). I have a spiky tip I slip over the
end of the cane for such.

I don't have to use a walking frame yet. But I do take advantage of the
electric trolleys in a big box store.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Steel Trolley Diner's Fresh Apple Crumb Pie
 Categories: Pies, Pastry, Desserts, Fruits
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
  4 1/2 c  Apples; peel, core, slice
      1 c  Sugar
      4 tb Flour
      1 ts Cinnamon
    1/4 ts Nutmeg
    1/8 ts Salt
      1    9" pie shell; unbaked
 
  Mix flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Put apples in large
  bowl and pour flour mixture over it. Stir well. Put into
  shell and cover with crumb topping.
  
  To make topping, mix 1/4 lb. butter, 1 c. flour and 3/4 c.
  sugar until crumbly. Bake at 350ºF for 45 minutes to 1
  hour or until done.
  
  Recipe By: "Ohio's Perfect Pies, Ohio Magazine, September
  1998
  
  The Steel Trolley fixed old-fashioned pies with fresh
  fruits and handmade dough and serves them 24 hours a day.
  Co-owners Earle and Jacki Hersman enlisted Earle's 78-
  year-old mother, Dorothy Sutherin, to make the from-
  scratch dough at home and bring it in each morning.
  
  Sutherin's pie teammate, 71-year-old Hazel Allison,
  reports to the 50s-style diner at 3:30 am to make the
  filling and bake the pies. "I love it," says Allison
  of her job, which she works on a volunteer basis. "If
  you don't enjoy what you're doing, you won't be successful
  at it." The duo sells such tasty varieties as apple raisin
  and the house specialty, oatmeal for $1.60 a slice.
  Sutherin and Allison not only make their pies from
  scratch, they make them from memory; the bakers haven't
  looked at a recipe since, well, as long as they can
  remember.
  
  Steel Trolley Diner, 140 E. Lincoln Way, Lisbon, OH,
  330/424-FOOD
  
  From: http://www.recipesource.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
MMMMM

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