Dear Sir, - I have just seen the letter from "Very Interested", and I am sure he did not read my letter too correctly, as in it I said that I can wear a 5 inch heel but I cannot walk on it for more than the width of a room, which is the few paces I referred to in my letter. I cannot walk with a five inch heel even with the aid of two crutches, and it is utterly impossible with only one.
I do not know how "Single High Heel" and "Single Crutch" can walk in 5 inch and 6 inch heels with one crutch. I have been trying to do so for five years.
I am sorry I have not written before, but I have had another visit to the hospital, and the cause will be ample answer to "Single Crutch's" last question.
During a heavy snowstorm in March I went to the door whilst using a single crutch and a 3 inch heel and I slipped on the ice on the step. As is usual, the first part of me to touch the ground was my stump. I have found out that it is always the same in a fall, as every fall I had in the first few months of my one-leggedness caused me to fall on the shortened limb.
The outcome was that my stump had to be shortened, and now it is only 8 inches from my trunk.
So I advise all my limbless sister readers to refrain from using really high heels in wet or frosty weather.
However, I am now assured that I can wear an artificial leg which will be absolutely natural in its action and appearance, but I am afraid that it will only be another case of the leg of Miss Kilmansegg - which went thump, clump, as she walked.
The coloured peg leg of "Hery Interested's " wife is a fine idea, and I think I will try it as soon as the stump has heeled.
I will send a photo of myself and heel in my next letter. Will any of you follow suit?
I should like to know how "Single High Heel" gets her one shoe at sample prices, as I have to pay full price for mine each time; but I can support her statement about the single stocking - they go twice as far.
I am afraid planter will never see me in the street wearing a four inch heel, as apart from the attention I should get I am never going to risk another fall such as the last one.
If you are not tired of hearing from me, dear Editor, please say so, and I will tell you some of my earlier experiences in crutch manipulation - and the earlier ones are amusing even to me.
But never, please, refer to me, as some people do, as a cripple, as I am certainly not one - I am handicapped in having only one leg, but I am as active as many of my two-legged sisters.
Yours truly,
Helen Fivetoes