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| - First of all, thank you Hanger Clinic for having a location in Vegas, Thank You for giving our veterans and disable person the gift to walk again, to be able to feel full again :)
I made an appointment, make sure you come with an order from your primary doctor.
They open from 8am to 5pm Monday through Friday. Office is near Flamingo and decatur.
My dad is a Veteran from the Vietnam war. He stepped on a Anti Personnel bomb and lost his right leg below his knee back in 1970. Horrible war like all war but Lucky and Blessed my loving dad is still alive.
Sandeep is the prosthetician at Hanger in Vegas (sorry if I misspelled it). The GREAT thing is that they do everything locally!!!! Sandeep asked a lot of questions to better analyze my dad habits, way of life... they have multiple options, materials to fit the daily use of each patient.
Even my dad wears a prosthetic he walks fast, at least 1h/1h30 every day and love to garden! He even walk faster than me LOL
After the "interview" Sandeep took some measurement of my dad amputated leg and prepared the material to make a mold of his "Cast".
It's always so interesting to see the process. He drew on my dad leg before He applied and rolled the leg with some "long bandage" then wet it to make the mold.
Took 10/15mns only. You can see how excited and happy my dad was! It was very emotional, being the daughter of a veteran I swear this kind of moment always bring me tears...
Sandeep told us that he still need to submit the papers to medicare and the fitting prior to the definitive insert should be ready in couple days! I was like WOUAH!!!
The fitting is to make sure even molding is done on the amputated part, the patient doesn't feel any discomfort, if they do, they can adjust during the fitting :)
That was step 1 of the making of my dad New prosthetic :)
To be continued...
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