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Sounds great, good for you, and enjoy! I too am antsy to get up to our cabin too, very much looking forward to it.

I texted the one prosthetist, she has not heard of Enko shoes, but I will ask another.

I forgot to mention that, with this type of socket, you pull your arm in with a piece of fabric. Where you pull your arm in from has a special check valve that does not allow air back into the socket, this gives a good vaccum suction to kee the prosthesis on. Also, with this skin fit style socket, he believes that he can get me eating/drinking WITH the fake arm! This is such a basic task, and compared to me running chainsaws, or something of that caliber, might make eating sound not so special....I wish I could use the fake arm to feed myself, or drink a glass of water with it, but I just do not have that range of motion with the liner type socket I use currently, in fact I have never been able to eat with my prosthetic’s! VERY excited to see what this guy can do. He has never built me an arm, he was hired after my current arm was completed, and I hear he a magician with fitting these skin fit sockets! He said he might even add a pinch of angle to the fake arm itself to get the hand closer to my mouth. Can’t wait!

Haha better than guy at work that says 10 and 3 little lines, when using a tape...

Very nice, congrats!

You’re welcome! As long as it seems to be interested in, I will keep sharing, should get interesting very soon! Glad you enjoy it

My gut says my current silicone liner allows for my load before the risk of pipping off. However, a WELL formed socket of this kind, can support an very adequate amount of suspensed weight. With all seriousness, just the weight of the hand itself that attaches to the fake arm is an issue for a lot of users, some actually choose a specific hand over another solely on its weight. Point is, with that in mind, these skin type sockets will hold more than enough weight. We actually had a tricky time removing that cast that is pictured, and it was still slightly pliable. My skin actually felt rope burn haha.

I will get you an answer ASAP, I promise, sorry about that!

Ok, so today was the start of the research study. Today we molded a new cast which they build a final socket out of, for the new arm. I wear a liner that uses a locking pin to hold the arm on...this new arm is held on by skin contact, so the dents you see in the casting over my residual limb is actually for load bearing purposes to hold, and keep the arm on. I go back Tuesday to see what progress is made. Its a little weird to post a pic like this, but whatever, it is what it is....

Rueben looks awesome! So do the cutlets, and sticks. I just want to eat until I puke tonight for some reason.

Congrats!

Im on time, in the plow truck though, a coworker clearly did not change hos clock. He mentioned something about “waiting until after 6...” well it was 6:06 when he said that

The cheesesteaks, and pizzas you make look incredible, understatement...

Good stuff man, safe travels!

Great to hear pal, did you do the 1500 mile round trip, or whatever its called? I love scenic pics, hoping to see some. As far as the arm stuff, there will be two arm’s! Should be cool.

Will do, my friend! Hows your trip going?

Snacky

I am starting the research study on Monday for pattern recognition software. I plan to take pics for my Instagram, any interest here? Assuming so....but ya never know

Yeah, freedom of speech is looooong gone. Sissy society now.

I hope so! I am antsy to clay bar, and wax the vehicles, ATV, go to camp, shoot handguns, and the crossbow, and campfires, and so on, and so onnnnn

Jenn brought home a bacon swiss burger for me as she does from time, to time.

We probably should right? lol we just love them! We are working on eating better with exercise, so avocados are decent in smaller doses. They are just so good!