Hello.
It’s the end of another day and my mind is racing.
I’ve been thinking about walking. I miss the dexterous nuances that only feet and legs can give you. Here are more of my thoughts if you wish to read them.
Best wishes, Steve
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hi steve
thanks for the link to your blog.
a few years ago, i started to reflect on my time as a toddler- learning to walk and potty training.
my learning stood me in good stead for 50 years.
then it was back to square one.
mary berry isn’t the only person familiar with the soggy bottom!
carole x
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Oh Steve, I`ve recently been trying to remember how anyone actually walks.
When we could do it, we never gave it a second thought…just walk and we did!
I do watch how other folk walk…it looks complicated to me now…daft, but there you are!
pollx
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I was told that from a Bio-mechanical point of view walking is a “controlled fall” I seem to keep losing control!
As an intellectual exercise it is a very complicated process which is why it is super tiring to try when our systems are compromised.
I am frequently envious of toddlers or ancient people who seem much better at walking than I ever will be. Icertainly took it for granted when it was easy.
Mick
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Funny that. I too was musing on the “art” of walking today. Hubby had gone to the pharmacy to collect my script and I waited in the car. I watched people coming and going, in the car park.
Young people walked jauntily along.
Couples leaned in against each other, arms wrapped around waists as they passed my car.
Toddles grasped the hands of their parent, as they determinedly tottered along.
Young children skipped along,almost tripping over their own feet excitedly, as they talked, all the while looking up at the adult they were with.
An elderly woman walked by, slowly and carefully, but confidently with her bag of meat from the butchers.
I briefly dwelt on when I could do all of these and without a second though. Almost a reflex action and how I took walking for granted. It was ust so easy, wasn’t it?
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People take walking for granting. I look at them and see them walking along and think god i used to be able to do that. Never take your life for granted it can change in a heart beat. I used teach disabled and one lady had PPMS in a wheelchair, i actually encouraged her to get out of the chair and walk, and she did she went to HBOT and after six weeks started to walk again, now i wish i had her courage.
I wish we could edit. Anyway i can walk a bit aided, and went out yesterday for 10 minutes to get something with hubby, and had that weird perception issue, thinking the floor was in a different level and went to step up and nearly fell flat on my face, its a horrible feeling and scares me. I really should only use my rollator, but decided to risk just my stick. Its weird as i know how to walk, but sometimes my brain tells me the floor is in a different place i know it sounds mad doesnt it. Once i did it years ago was out with my daughter and for a split second i forgot how to walk literally, i just didnt know how to walk and next thing i knew i was nearly heads down in a freezer in Tesco my daughter was just stood there shocked… “mum omg are you ok, what on earth did you do”? I have no idea it was like i was not born, i had no clue i how to walk…I remember it now to this day it was about 8 years ago now i suppose, funny but scary too. I have had similar since but now i know why.
Its like the brain switches off, i cant explain it, and it sounds mental. I did a fall down the stairs broke my coxic because i had literally forgotten to step down, and walked straight instead into a void of nothing. Thank god it was only on the last 3 stairs. I ended up in the hallway flat on my back. Ended up in hospital. MS is sure as hell weird.
Many many years ago I was trying Hyperbaric Oxygen and I saw someone who needed a wheelchair to get in the chamber but managed to walk out.
It did not do much for me but clearly helped others
M
Yeh, Crazy, I did summat daft like that.
It was in my early days of stumbling around. I was in a shop with mum and mum in law. We were shopping for outfits for my daughter`s wedding. I saw the 3 steps down, which were highlighted with yellow and black tape, but my body refused to acknowledge them and I just carried on going straight ahead.
But wow! did it hurt when I fell and landed flat down on my front! The shop assistants came running, but I gathered myself together, as I was in a bit of denial when my ever anxious mum was around! She was given a chair and a cuppa to calm her. I never did admit how much I was hurting!!
pollx
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Its scary isnt it Poll. After my fall down the stairs i now have double rails and never go down them without holding on to both just in case.
Its perception i think. I sometimes feel i am about to walk into space its so weird. Glad you didnt harm yourself though but boy doesnt it shake you up. xx
This chat about falling and space reminded me of when I was about three years old.
I used to run up stairs into my bedroom, trampoline off my brother’s bed, onto chest of drawers, down onto my bed before executing a perfect landing on the floor.
Except one time, as I used the window over the chest of drawers to balance myself, the window was open. So instead of landing on the bed I flew out of the window, whistled past the front door and landed on the tarmac.
I was completely unharmed and my Mum had a much more difficult job trying to calm down the neighbour who had witnessed my “fly like a butterfly”, as I apparently explained my adventure.
Happy days,
A.
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