Support Community for Amputees

If you don't have use of your hands.

See also this video:

It's basically a giant optical mouse usable with one foot.

So I got tired of waiting for the slow-slow public hospital and decided to have my bone spurs removed in a private clinic. I got the surgery yesterday, and I've been lying in bed with my leg elevated, trying not to move, waiting for the pain to subside.

This morning, the phone rang in the living room. Damn... I got on my feet, grabbed the crutches and hurried out my bedroom to answer the phone.

It was the clinic: "Hello Sir! You've had surgery at our clinic yesterday!.To thank you for your business, we would like to offer you a free podiatrist foot and nail care consultation!"

...

Really?

I know it's just a machine triggering the call for a commercial offer. But they could at least have someone check the person's medical record first. It's a bit depressing. Kind of like when my Dad reached the age of 100 and he started getting ads for baby formula because the advertisers' database encoded the age on 2 digits...

I question whether reaching "flagship level" in prosthetics and the unprecedented growth of the domestic prosthetics industry is something a country should be proud of.

I believe the lady is Mandy Horvath.

Fantastic-looking 3D-printed BK prosthetic - FDA-approved, waterproof, 50% lighter and cheaper than conventional prostheses.

It seems quite durable too 🙂

Not directly related to limb loss - not at all in the video, in fact.

But I'm posting this here because I can't say enough good things about saunas for phantom pain relief: in my case, phantom pain manifests itself in the form of electric shocks and, more annoyingly, intense itching that I obviously can't scratch, and one of the only things that work for me is a nice hot sauna.

If you have access to a sauna or a hot spa somewhere, give it a spin next time it hits!

Here are videos of the adjustable socket systems mentioned in the guide:

• Click Medical Adjustable Sockets:
  

• LIM Innovations Infinite Socket:
  

• Martin Bionics Socket-less Socket:
  

This guide is rather old (2018), there are other systems out there. But they all work pretty much on the same principles.

I love this project. Ian Davis is so rad!

I'd better be careful with my fingers, seeing as though I ain't got spare toes...

I'm usually pain-free - including phantom pain - which I'm really grateful for.

So I got cocky: I told my landlord I'd be out of this house and into our new house in 7 days. It's totally possible. Or at least it would be if I wasn't me...

I'm 5 days in, the house is almost empty - we're camping here basically. All I have left to do is move our beds and transfer permanently to our new home and... I can't do it. I'm lying on the couch with intense phantom pain because I've been on my feet for too long for days, and I can't do anything about it. My wife is looking at me like I've betrayed her, and I dread calling the landlord for an extension - which he would love of course, because that means having to pay for an extra month's rent. All that because I can't get my sorry ass off the couch like a fucking failure.

I feel so defeated...

Someone will have to pay for this one day/

This clever gizmo turns any USB input devices - or combination of input devices - into any other HID device. Different versions also accept individual switches as inputs.

This means if you have trouble using a mouse, you can turn a joystick or a gamepad into a mouse.

Or if you can use a mouse but you can't click, you can remap the button to some other switch, like a foot pedal.

The possibilities seem endless, but it is a bit on the geeky side. If you're not the technical type, you might want to get some help from a computer or electronics engineer to put together your ideal setup with that one.

Check out the manual's section on accessibility:

https://www.remapper.org/manual/#accessibility-applications

Great news for those of us who would rather keep their shoes on for practical or social reasons.

That's how our Dear Leader's economic nonsense translates in people's actual lives. If you watch Ian Davis' videos, you can tell he's furious under his usual friendly and polite demeanor. I would be too.

Liberation Day indeed...

Don´t forget to shout "Tiki!", not "Help!", or the turtle won´t come.