Tag Archives: prosthesis

A bit too long

The one thing I didn’t mention in yesterday’s blog was that there is still one little problem with the prosthesis. When my leg was first set up it was deliberately shorter than my real leg because I kept scuffing the toe of the shoe on the floor. When I stood on the leg I didn’t […]

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We were put through our paces

This afternoon when I got to physio I put my leg on while the others in the group started their 10 minute warm up. With my leg on I started with my warm up but was now about 5 minutes behind the others. My warm up was on the bike again but as before kept […]

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Test drive of my leg

Today was the first day I have worn my prosthesis for any length of time for a while now, I have to confess that there was a bit of nerves getting back on it again. So, with all the changes yesterday what were the results? I climbed into the socket and had the usual struggle […]

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Send it back!

I had physio this afternoon and imagine my surprise when I walked in and my leg was ready. It was a good job I hadn’t worn a different trainer as I had originally planed as there was quite a difference in the sole depth of the two. The foam bit wasn’t quite as I had […]

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Ready to throw in the leg

In the post on Monday 9th Jan ‘Like walking on a razor blade’ I mentioned how Lynne had once again come to my rescue with my prosthesis. Because of the bruising I didn’t wear my leg again until physio on Friday, hoping the bruising would ease. Unfortunately all was not well, the bruising had eased […]

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Your doing better than you think

Gail who is another lady in my group is lovely but the whole amputation thing has been much harder for her than it has been for me. She is one of a minority group as she is a through knee amputee, a very rare breed, and when we spoke in the past I gave her […]

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Helping others and a balancing act

Todays physio session was different for me because although I didn’t do too much for myself I hope I have helped a couple of other people there today. The first is a guy who I think I have only seen once before, don’t ask me if he is a single, double, above or below amputee […]

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Like walking on a razor blade

I have to say that I was on quite a high when I left physio on Friday, all was good. I had been given official conformation that I could use my sticks instead of crutches when using my prosthesis. Encouraged to put my leg on first thing in the morning and wear it till after […]

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