Raeanna74, if it's any consolation about the klutzy part, listen to this:
For the first month or so I was on crutches, I went up steps by standing in front of them, placing the left crutch on top of the step in front of me and hauling myself up sideways while supporting myself with the lower, right crutch. Can you picture that? Kind of a difficult, sideways crab-walk sorta thing. Well, one day my boyfriend, brilliant man that he is, said he was tired of watching me do that and made me give him the crutches. Sure enough he demonstrated that one could simply step up with the left foot (the good side), raise one's body by straightening the knee, place both crutches on the upper step, and proceed on one's way without having to do anything remotely clumsy or strenuous. Boy did I feel stupid.
