A day in the life : Prosthetist
After all this, I have to get some tea, and I feel a sweet draft of wind because a kind lady, who is around 70 years old, is coming right now in my office and she is diabetic. Due to poor blood circulation, she lost her limb not many years ago. She does not walk great distances, she moves herself around the house and uses her wheelchair most of the time. Her fitting, today, made to her member below the knee is a success, she feels very comfortable in it and she wants me to finish it. I'll have it for two weeks and I'll have to put some paint on the outside of the device, so we'll have to go outside, together, with a set of color samples. It's much better to choose the color that the complexion of the prosthesis will have with sunlight, then we will see better which one will match closer to her own color of skin - the appropriate color of the complexion is not the same vision for everyone - we already had a girl who asked me to change her prosthesis’s complexion darker during the summer to match with her tan, and paler in the winter! The 70 year old lady chooses skin tone number 14, I measure her calf and her ankle and I take a picture of her non-affected member and she can leave.
My last appointment of the day is with Michael, born with a congenital deficiency above the elbow, which has a very low function figure. We install him a prosthesis arm that has an electrical control that Michael has the ability to activate by pressing a switch in the socket - a quick press to tell the hand to open and a slow pressure that tells him to close his hand. In addition, Michael has an elbow joint that works by applying a tension to the shoulder strap across his back. That's a lot of things for Michael to learn and he will have to practice installing all of this until he can install his prosthesis naturally and easily by himself.
There is only one hour left, so I take notes of what happened today and I confirm the follow-up appointments made during the day. It happens to be a pretty demanding job, Prosthetics - we begin the day between 5 and 6 appointments plus hindrances - because we have a policy of the number of open hours - and because of the workload, the appointments overlap very frequently. So, the daily routine of our day is juggling work, going from one patient to another when their devices are repaired or when we have to go back to the workshop. Nevertheless, it is a very interesting and satisfying job, among other things by building relationships at work with each person in need and guiding them in all their stages of care, trying the best we can, to provide to their needs.
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