[stylist] rollerball cane tips

[Barbara Hammel]

Her explanation was that the roller ball tip doesn't get stuck.  It just 
glides over stuff whereas the regular tip gets stuck and jabs you in the 
stomach.
Barbara

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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] rollerball cane tips

> Yep, my mobility instructor gave me one when I was a kid, although I fail 
> to
> understand how kids can't be just as successful and actually more 
> successful
> with an NFB cane or a rainshine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:12 PM
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>
> I wonder if they came up with those to "help the little chidren be
> successful with their canes"?  I've a friend whose daughter's mobility
> instructor gave her one for just that purpose.  I refuse to let anyone 
> give
> one to my children.
> Barbara
>
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> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:43 PM
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>
>> Jim, so glad you're getting better.
>> Yes, those roller tips aren't all they're cracked up to be. I gave my
>> old folding cane away a long time ago, someone was desperate, and
>> haven't missed it a bit.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On Behalf Of James Canaday M.A. N6YR
>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 5:40 PM
>> To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: [stylist] rollerball cane tips
>>
>> hello friends,
>> I'm going back to a previous discussion we had regarding canes and
>> cane tips.
>> the replacement tips I had ordered for my cane were wrong, rainshine
>> instead of the standard metal glide tip and I could not get the
>> rainshine on my solid fiberglass cane.
>> I had a trip downtown this afternoon and thus was forced to use what I
>> call my "dress cane" because it looks nice, doesn't appear to have
>> survived a nuclear blast.  problem is it is a folding cane, probably
>> three times the weight, and made of graphite.  it was given by a state
>> functionary.  my "dress cane" has a rolling tip.
>> after walking with it downtown on some familiar sidewalks, I can
>> conclusively report that it doesn't communicate nearly so much detail
>> as my solid, light, metal glide tipped, cane.  I tried tapping (harder
>> with heavier cane) and even tried some of the rollerball
>> technique.    so, I'm getting metal glide tips ASAP.
>>
>> one note, during my trip downtown I had to take cover under the awning
>> of the newspaper/cable-TV/ISP because it was hailing pea-sized hail.
>> hail presents its own travel problems, chiefly the pain and the noise.
>>
>> and to those who have been praying for me, I am getting better.  thank
>> you and thank God.
>>
>> jc
>>
>> Jim Canaday M.A.
>> Lawrence, KS
>>
>>
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