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Do We Need a Nurse to Teach Us How Not to Fall?

Posted on July 21, 2020July 20, 2020

I’d just gotten out of bed the other morning and was headed to the bathroom using just one cane when I tried to step over a dog toy on the floor. I went down slowly onto the carpet, so it was really no big deal. No harm, no foul, but I should have been using two canes, and I should have been more careful. I should know how not to…Continue Reading

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