polygonum wrote:
My partner has plenty of reason to have one but, somehow, cannot get
herself to ask her doctor. I sympathise with that - it feels like a
final admission that she will never get better. She does not, and
possibly could not, use a wheelchair.

Not an uncommon problem. People don't want to admit to themselves that
they are now badly enough disabled to need help.

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Tciao for Now!

John.