From Skip : Today was my first time of hanging out with Jorge as we start our journey towards his and Aiyannas wedding on Valentines Day, 2015. Jorge and I met up at Peter Harsch Prosthetics as he got adjustments on his prosthetics. He seemed quite relaxed and very comfortable with me following him around with a camera. He said, Thats ok, Ill just ignore you! to which I replied thats exactly what I wanted. When I walked in, his prostheticist, Randy Whiteside, was over at the workbench, doing some tweaks on Jorges relatively new legs. Theres a lot of adjusting to be done by Randy to get them to fit work properly and by Jorge to get used to them. By the way, these legs are seriously high tech! Carbon fiber, steel, aluminum and electronics like accelerometers, gyroscopes and wifi! The wifi lets the tech set certain things like bend resistance on a computer and then transmit it to the legs. Wow! The patience of both men, Jorge and Randy, as they set up his legs was impressive. Randy seems to be a very gentle soul, very caring of his patients and very thoughtful on how to fix any problems with the prosthesis. Jorge had some problems with balance and with one knee releasing too easily. The knees seem to need a lot of delicate adjustments to get them to bend just right. Between Jorge describing exactly what was going on, and Randy listening carefully to his descriptions, they got his legs working perfectly. I cant tell you how humbling it was to be in a room with about ten men, all of them missing one or both legs and all of whom had great attitudes about life and wonderful expectations of their futures. It makes whatever petty problems I face, day to day, seem really trivial. #Jorge #Aiyanna #WoundedWarrior #AnAmericanHero #ShadowCatcherImagery
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:56:57 +0000
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