THREAD REOPENED!!!
Sorry, I must have bumped the button. Too easy to do.
Please comment if desired. Hope you have a great Christmas! I was working til midnight Christmas Eve. Back Hip and Leg killing me. And the front end of my Golf Cart transport broke a leaf spring! The cart has been SO VERY HELPFUL!!! But I had to hoof up and down the lane, dragging my leg behind me; for the final push of the Season. That REALLY made me miss the cart.
Don’t know if I ever said; the last set of Xrays I had showed the back considerably worse - with Scoliosis in two directions. This creates not only pain, but the sensation that my right leg is considerably shorter. That sensation along with equilibrium issues, is great fun. With the Covid madness affecting appointments and Drs. Availability ... I took it on myself to manufacture a shoe orthopedic insert, which compensated for the unequal stance of one leg and the corresponding twisted/leaning of my torso. A look in a full length mirror, caused a snap repeat glance, at my leaning twisted stature. The wedge, lift, pad I created, helps tremendously. It provides arch support and a one inch lift to one leg. I experimented with stance compensation. That actually yielded a projected 1 1/2” lift need. But since I realized “Self Correction” is a bit out of the ordinary ... I started with 1” which fit neatly inside the shoe. And that corrected the sensation that I was going to fall off the world.
It helped with the stance, pain, and stride - to such an extent ... that I bought a brand new duplicate pr. of shoes and duplicated the wedge/lift for that new shoe of the new pr. So .. I have Work and Dress Orthopedics. And since I seem to degrade faster then I heal ... I may continue needing my services before I go thru the regular system.
At Christmas, everybody was taller or nearly so, then I. I used to be 6’3”. As I’ve shrunk, they’ve grown. Hah. I did a lot of looking “across and looking up” this season.
Thanks for reading!
Gary
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/26/2021 08:40PM by barnespneumatic.