Saturday, November 27, 2010
The Mall
My Prosthesist wanted me to go to the Mall and walk around before the Mall even opens. Evidently people go there to walk around for exercise before the Mall opens. Being a good patient I met him there to walk around the mall. He made an attachment to my leg that goes up the left side of my body to prevent me from collapsing on my left side as I walk. He says I only need it for a short time to retrain my brain not to collapse on my left side as I walk. I can feel it and eventually I will be able to walk without feeling the the thing he made that goes all the way up to my ribs on the left side. It is kind of ironic for my father has been saying for over a year that when I take a step with my artificial leg (my left leg) lean to the right and now I do that with the the thing that Jerald made me. Dad was right. My flow and gate have improved so much and it is now hard to tell that I have an artificial leg on when I wear long pants.
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Hi! My name is Laura. I am a new amputee as of June 23rd 2010. I'm an above amputee and just got a C-Leg yesterday. I was using another knee and getting pretty good at it prior to yesterday. It just swings and that was fine with me. I was getting good enough to walk sometimes without a cane but I limp pretty bad.
ReplyDeletePrior to my amputation I spent 14 years with my knee fused so I am used to just swinging my leg around rather than bending it. Prior to my knee being fused I had a bad knee for almost 10 years so I have a total of 24 years (out of 27) of poor walking ability. Now I have prosthetic telling me to "walk normally" and I have no idea what it means.
My biggest problem right now is that I can't get my center of gravity over my c-leg when I walk. I might transfer some weight to it but as soon as I get my right leg out I put weight on it immediately and therefore I'm finding it impossible to bend the C-Leg's knee. I can stand in one place and place the leg far enough behind me and put a little weight on it (as much as I can stand) and get it to bend but it bends VERY slow.
I am wondering if you've possibly experienced a similar issue and if you have any advice for me. I'm very discouraged and really wish I had the drive that you have but after months of struggling and thinking this leg was going to be "easier" or "better" to only find it impossible... well to say the least, my heart has been broken.
Any advice you have is appreciated. Good luck walking! It sounds like you are progressing pretty good.
Talk soon,
Laura
essarybunch@gmail.com
Laura did you get my email about the C-Leg?
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