House held his gaze as he pulled himself up, holding the hand with his left and his cane with the right. Once on ihs feet, he did a little hop to get his weight off the right as much as possible.

"Leg's giving me fits today. I had a crisis in the clinic last night, it's fine now, but I didn't use my cane and the leg tends to make me pay for that later. You should stay a little to my right, but walk normally."

He really should have gotten his crutches out, and he knew it. He just hated those things, and the weakness they represented.