I’ve started the process to get an i-Limb hand from TouchBionics! This week I met with Dr. Suzy Kim at Kaiser in Martinez. I had been referred to her by my general doctor so I could make a case to get an i-Limb hand. I hadn’t met Dr. Kim before, so didn’t know what to [...]

TouchBionics have now released their i-Limb hand commercially in the US. I have written about it a couple of times and it’s an amazing device…check out their site for some action videos of people using it. There are also some videos on YouTube, check this out out…watch closely and you’ll see the world’s first bionic [...]

I got my new arm this week, a thing of beauty! Rich Sire from Diablo Prosthetics did a great job on my new arm, I wanted to go for the high-tech look since I didn’t really like the look of my first prosthetic, which is pink (looks like a dolls arm). Since I’m not trying [...]

It’s been about 10 months since I was fitted for my prosthetic and my stump has shrunk about an inch in diameter, as you can see from the photos (I took the first back in August last year). This means my prosthetic is now a little lose, to say the least…it’s a bit embarrassing having [...]

I still haven’t got my prosthetic hand yet, it’s been a challenge for Richard at Hanger to get a test socket to fit. My stump is a bit bulbous, which, as you can imagine, makes it a challenge to get a socket to go over the bulge in the middle yet still fit snuggly to [...]