Today's Dance by Inmate #2

Today was the pool dance. It has rained for several days here and it rained again this morning so by the time we went to lunch and the sidewalks were full of small lake size puddles - deep enough to soak your feet and shoes and get your pant legs wet.  Not on just one sidewalk but on EVERY sidewalk leading from the building to the main building where chow is.

On the one sidewalk you can pass the garbage can in the circular on the left but then you stand a chance of getting run over by returning traffic. So you stop and wait or plow through,  On top of which they have laid cardboard on the floor in front of the doors to soak up moisture, which curls and shreds, gets caught in the walker and you have to pick the walker up and carry it over the wet cardboard.  Carrying the walker isn't much of an aid to steady your walk if you have to carry it.  I have also noticed today that there are more holes in the sidewalks and the cracks of the sidewalks than before with rebar showing which makes walking with a walker dangerous.

If the walker accidentally hits a chuck in the sidewalk and my balance is off it could throw me over the walker and I could be injured rather badly. I've had several close calls with uneven sidewalks but was able to regain my balance when the walker fell over. I was very athletic before I had the stroke and my body balance is pretty good even when the vertigo is acting up (fortunate for me).