Wafer or sugar cone?
Joe
Description
Collection
Title:
Wafer or sugar cone?
Creator:
Joe
Date:
11/28/2000
Text:
Well, my good friends it's time for a good chuckle.
Earlier this year I fit Carl, a 47 year old 156 lb. recent transtibial
amputee, with a light weight laminated socket with a pelite liner and
single axis foot. It was billed and described as a temporary
prosthesis. As humans are apt to do, he gained back the 40 lb.. he did
not tell me he lost prior to infecting his foot and subsequent
amputation. Okay from now on I'll ask weight history. Good thing it was
a temp. Be that as it may, the current socket is gettin' tight. Saying
that he walked all day with it at the county fair the Saturday prior
confounds me. He did it sans the liner. Time for a new socket I'd say or
lose weight. Carl will bloody up his residual in no time flat. Ask
your doctor for a prescription for a new definitive prosthesis because
you're due dude and stay off Ding Dings and chips my good man.
In all seriousness he told me that while waiting in the lobby he was
reading one of the magazines about amputees and eyed an ad for a new
innovative socket design that is said to provide comfort and protect the
limb like no other. He piqued my interest. Can you tell me about it?
What was the name? He went on, I don't remember but the socket looked
like a ice cream cone. Okay I thought, so I have not been in the biz for
years and years but I have just about read every paper on every design
known to man. You mean it was conical in shape? No, he insisted it was
more like an ice cream cone. He's pulling my leg I thought. Was that a
wafer or sugar cone, I asked. More like a wafer cone, he replied.
Okay he's for real. I must investigate.
I haven't heard from Carl in a while. No authorization has come in. So
as I was about to call him during my lunch today while thumbing through
a trade magazine. I eyed an ad sporting an ice cream cone stuck on a
pylon and shoe. You TEC guys are funny. The mystery is solved. It's a
wafer cone! Are those cones off-the-shelf or custom to cast!
Joe Harvey NCOPE Resident
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Earlier this year I fit Carl, a 47 year old 156 lb. recent transtibial
amputee, with a light weight laminated socket with a pelite liner and
single axis foot. It was billed and described as a temporary
prosthesis. As humans are apt to do, he gained back the 40 lb.. he did
not tell me he lost prior to infecting his foot and subsequent
amputation. Okay from now on I'll ask weight history. Good thing it was
a temp. Be that as it may, the current socket is gettin' tight. Saying
that he walked all day with it at the county fair the Saturday prior
confounds me. He did it sans the liner. Time for a new socket I'd say or
lose weight. Carl will bloody up his residual in no time flat. Ask
your doctor for a prescription for a new definitive prosthesis because
you're due dude and stay off Ding Dings and chips my good man.
In all seriousness he told me that while waiting in the lobby he was
reading one of the magazines about amputees and eyed an ad for a new
innovative socket design that is said to provide comfort and protect the
limb like no other. He piqued my interest. Can you tell me about it?
What was the name? He went on, I don't remember but the socket looked
like a ice cream cone. Okay I thought, so I have not been in the biz for
years and years but I have just about read every paper on every design
known to man. You mean it was conical in shape? No, he insisted it was
more like an ice cream cone. He's pulling my leg I thought. Was that a
wafer or sugar cone, I asked. More like a wafer cone, he replied.
Okay he's for real. I must investigate.
I haven't heard from Carl in a while. No authorization has come in. So
as I was about to call him during my lunch today while thumbing through
a trade magazine. I eyed an ad sporting an ice cream cone stuck on a
pylon and shoe. You TEC guys are funny. The mystery is solved. It's a
wafer cone! Are those cones off-the-shelf or custom to cast!
Joe Harvey NCOPE Resident
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Paul E. Prusakowski,CPO at <Email Address Redacted>
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Public commercial postings are forbidden. Responses to inquiries
should not be sent to the entire oandp-l list.
Citation
Joe, “Wafer or sugar cone?,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215405.
