#postpolio — Public Fediverse posts
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Earlier, while waiting for my orthotist, in between adjustment fittings & measuring for my right foot lift request. Goofing around with skeletal model hands & looking at the foot lift gauge blocks.
My left leg has been longer than my right leg since being struck & paralyzed by #polio in my toddler years. The illness stunted a lot of my physical growth. I wore very visible foot lifts from age 6-age 12. I stopped wearing them because kids physically bullied me & called me Frankenstein when I wore them. I stopped wearing them & spent the next 20 years of my life, trying to hide my disabilities. I stopped hiding my disabilities after getting therapy for a lot of childhood trauma issues that were directly tied to being bullied for being disabled & Asian as a young child.
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Most of this morning, I'll be at Fisher Building for orthotics fittings on a new left night brace being made & to get some minor repairs on one of my long leg braces.
I'll be talking to my orthotist about the need to return to getting heel lifts built onto my right boots because I am pretty sure that my leg length differential(from initial polio illness/paralysis) has increased over the years. It would also help my back hurt less & allow me to walk for longer periods, by getting this leg length differential dealt with.#PeopleWithDisabilities #Postpolio #osteoporosis #scoliosis #orthotics #MobilityAids #PPS