The walk that worried me was the short one, half asleep, bed to bathroom, across tile in socks. A woman in the reviews wrote: "They make walking around the house safer for me due to having sciatica I'm afraid I may fall. These grip nicely."

The sole has a honeycomb grip that holds on tile and hardwood, wet bathroom floor included. I crossed my wet bathroom floor this morning without touching the wall. I used to shuffle to the bathroom with a hand on the counter. Now I'm just up.

My old slippers were nothing but a fuzzy sock with a slick, flat bottom, and the back crushed flat in about 2 months, so my heel was hanging out the back and I knew it. One woman wrote she wanted to stop "constantly tripping like I do in my old traditional style house shoes." Another just wanted "slippers that are comfortable, stay on my feet, not a tripping hazard."

The knit closes around my heel and stays there. Down the stairs, nothing slaps. One review: "the grip on these keeps me grounded and I don't trip over them like I do in flop style slippers."

The fall risk at home is not the walk. It is standing on one foot trying to get a slipper on. I had a hand on the dresser every morning for that.

These go on like a sock. I step in standing, no laces, no back to pull. "Easy on and non slip," one woman wrote on our survey. That is the whole list.

"The higher the shoe, the worse my balance is," one woman wrote on our survey. Another: "I trip and fall with my regular slippers and I have no feeling in my feet and can't judge the height of things and trip over nothing." Thick foam slippers put me up on a platform I could not feel.

These are low, soft and close to the floor, so I feel carpet, tile or wood under me. "For someone whose balance may be off a bit the traction on these shoes are great!" says one review. Another woman wears them all day, every day, because they feel like socks but they have a hard bottom. I feel confident at home instead of careful.

2 pairs, 2 colors. The black stays by my bed and the gray by the tub, so there is always a pair where the slippery floor is. Every order comes with easy returns, no questions asked.

My sister tried an hour after me and the black in her size was already gone. If yours is showing in stock, do not wait on it.