I was on the floor. And no one was helping.

The injury

A broken back. A pandemic. And suddenly, alone.

I broke my back helping a patient. It was the kind of injury that changes everything — the way you move, the way you think about your body, the way you understand vulnerability.

Then the pandemic hit. Help was in short supply. The world shut down, and for people like me — people who needed physical support just to get through the day — that isolation was more than inconvenient. It was dangerous.

The moment

A big box store. The floor. And boys laughing.

I was alone in a big box store when it happened. I found myself on the floor and I could not get up.

I had to crawl — crawl — to the wall just to leverage myself upright. And while I was down there, there were boys behind me laughing. A lady crawling on the floor.

That humiliation stayed with me. But so did something else: a question. Why doesn't my cane help me get up?

The idea

What if the cane came down to you?

It took time — but I came up with a solution. A cane that doesn't just walk with you. A cane that transforms when you need it most. One that lowers itself to where you are, widens its base, and gives you something solid to rise from.

The Cane Transformer had an idea. Then it was just a matter of polishing the plan.

The journey

Two years. A patent. And a manufacturer.

It took two years to find a manufacturer. Two years of working on every detail, refining the mechanism, and navigating the patent process.

I'm so excited to share that The Cane Transformer is now in manufacturing. It's coming soon — so that others can get it, and not suffer the way I did.