# Can you still put your pants on standing up?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 28, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-put-your-pants-on-standing-up/999511 "2024-03-28T17:18:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-still-put-your-pants-on-standing-up/999511/63 "2024-04-02T01:46:39Z")

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I can put my pants/socks on while standing up. I can also still skip [Do you remember how to skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179), but I cannot put my pants on while skipping, at least not deliberately.

(My daughter made me skip, gallop, double-skip, and canter when I mentioned the thread about skipping. It was like a whole Ministry of Silly Walks demonstration.)

> [@OttoDaFe](#):
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> Perhaps not much longer, though: apparently the disc between my last lumbar and first sacral vertebrae has degenerated to the point that the channel for the primary leg nerves has collapsed. Still working on determining a way forward (if any).

My wife was having trouble walking due to a similar issue. She recently had surgery to install hardware to space her L4 and L5 vertebrae back out and fuse them. She’s doing much better now, several weeks post-surgery.

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