Today was an early start as I had an appointment with Lynne (my prosthetist) first thing this morning. It has been about 2 months since I saw here last, which is a small miracle in itself. In that time I have gone from not being able to get the prosthesis on at all, taking 4 […]
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Archive | June, 2012
A roll around a Roadshow
June 21, 2012 
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We have had a lovely couple of day’s sunshine (probably our entire summer’s worth) but the opening day of the Roadshow comes and so does the rain. I wanted to go to the Mobility Roadshow last year but unfortunately it coincided with one of my stays in Hospital so I missed it. This was the […]
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June 20, 2012 0 Comments
Yesterday was another gloriously sunny day which gave me another opportunity to go for a walk with Dad and Cody (my Labrador). Back up the track again today and I was hoping to do my walk in under 20mins. The walk out, as normal, was a bit slow as everything is against me so I […]
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June 18, 2012 0 Comments
The last few days have been quite good in the main, there was only one big disappointment which came in the shape of my Phoenix. Friday I trotted across to Halfords and bought a can of lacquer to spray over the prosthetic socket to seal the picture and lettering. My worst fears were realised when […]
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June 14, 2012 0 Comments
Yesterday was the first physio session for a couple of weeks and as long as we weren’t doing a whole session of stretching I was actually looking forward to it. I had taken the belt of my prosthesis along in my bag but decided to try it without the belt on, I managed the whole […]
Continue reading Prosthetic art and my inspiration
June 13, 2012 0 Comments
Anyone who follows me on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Amputee/300078160015089 ) will remember a while back I asked for suggestions on what to draw on my prosthetic socket. I had some good suggestions and ideas of my own so I took ages deliberating before I settled on a design. The biggest problem with the socket is that […]
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June 10, 2012 0 Comments
It’s all been rather quiet and I’ve mainly been recovering from the physio session from hell the other week. Yes it really has taken that long for my back and knee to recover and I can’t believe all that pain came from stretching exercises. Of course I did my patriotic bit and watched the Jubilee […]
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June 1, 2012 0 Comments
Wednesday was, although I didn’t know it at the time, the worst physio session I have had. A super-hot day and my physio didn’t want to work us too hard so we had just over an hour and a quarter of stretching. Looking back I think I would rather have tried an hour on the […]
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