In a message dated 11/28/01 5:11:51 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:

> The question...when
>you were 6 or just starting to walk independantly were
>you afraid to stand alone/walk because of falling?
>what does it feel like?

Joanne,

    In my own experience, there was no dizziness involved, I would encounter
an obstacle and fall. I fell so much in early childhood, I have a scar in the
middle of my forehead where I was hit and sewn up so many times. For a time,
my folks bought me a small football helmet for protection.

    A funny anecdote to this is that my dad told my daughter and her hubby
the story o the football helmet. She and hubby had a cat who had a litter of
kittens. One of the kittens had a huge head and would fall alot. Guess what
they named that cat, yes, Bobby! They threatened to fashion a tiny football
helmet and take a photo of the kitten. Seven years later, Bobby, is the only
survivor of that litter!

Bobby