TO CANE OR NOT TO CANE?

First:  I can kneel to say my prayers and then get up with almost no help.  In other words, almost as well as when I had the physio therapist here.

When I go somewhere with my daughter, I don't use the cane (even forgot it once or twice.)  I know she could pick me up or at least call the fire dpt or someone if the fall caused damage or pain.

But lately...Well, we had a fire drill yesterday.  I knew I could just carry the cane going down, but for some reason I was uneasy about the possibility of climbing back up.

And a day or two ago, stepping off a curb by my car, the sole of my clog scraped on top of the curb.

Looking back to the week before the knee buckled, I know my balance now is not as good as it was then.  I sort of test myself taking the garbage to the drop at the end of the hall.  I'm 90 per cent sure the phys therapist would want the cane put away.

When is enough enough?