I am now just reading your message. You have a good understanding of not falling because once you fall only you can tell how’s life after that fall. My help person told me to do that about a year ago but the advice was to use a pack weighed down. We did it and yes it works but I thought of a better Idea. If you take smaller steps and not so high steps. If you have weights on your ankles, make sure it all you have in weight. I will say it limits you. I carry a backpack around.
Hi Morlando!
Thank you so much for your reaction. I’ve now discovered I walk with the best balance if I:
- move slowly, no sudden movements, focus on walking, not the surroundings
- go barefoot of with very supple shoes like Sketchers
- “glide” -a bit like waltzing- instead of moving abruptly, with my back straight and my head held up high. Like dancing! Maybe a bit silly when outside, but certainly a lot of help indoors…
- have a little trolley with me all the time, as an extra reference point of where I am in space.- in fact have as much reference points as possible, like stroking a wall with my free hand
- use optic help, like focussing on a vertical line in the distance (I have left to right nystagmus; if you have up and down nystagmus better focus on horizontal lines)
I didn’t fall in quite a while!
Please be careful with a back pack. It does weigh you down, but it could also easily get you out of balance. I had that once when having to go around a few people on a narrow sidewalk and I fell in front of a coming car!
Thank you for responding to me so fast. Yes, mom I will be careful with my backpack but if I go shopping for food or anything I have noone to help me. I have nystagmus as well. My eye doctor discovered it in 2015. I gave up driving in 2016 because I could not see me driving and killing someone and then live with it