Posts Tagged ‘Prosthetic’
Microsoft’s Xbox Prosthetic Avatars Need Better Game Settings
This week is huge in the video game world. The E3 Expo is underway and I’ve had a chance to watch it closely because Jordan’s brother, Cameron, is an avid gamer who loves to follow the industry. He has stepped away from the Xbox and invested in a PS4 so we aren’t able to enjoy…
Read More +A New Way to Build Prosthetics
Even though Jordan and I had huge adventures in our first 24 hours in Chicago, the real reason we visited the city was to kick off the building process for a new prosthetic arm after she grew out of her newest one less than a year after we built one the summer of 2015. It’s…
Read More +A whole new arm experience
Jordan has focused a lot of her prosthetic use on specific tasks – mainly activities like biking and kayaking. Her new joy with her new activity arm is using a scooter all over the place. But the biggest reason we use prosthetics is to help her body do more bi-manual motions – gross and fine motor.…
Read More +The gift of building new arms
Jordan and I are in the middle of our seventh round of prosthetic building. It’s nowhere close to as emotionally exhausting as it used to be. We don’t work with a company that is close to home because no one near us has the intense knowledge of upper limb technology as our prosthetist, Dave Rotter.…
Read More +In need of a new helper arm
I sent Jordan off to school with her helper arm on this morning. I don’t think that’s going to happen much longer this school year. The combination of bulky sleeves and the fact she keeps growing… Her arm is officially uncomfortable and doesn’t fit. We’ve always built a new one every 18 months or so. But…
Read More +How Winter the Dolphin inspires Jordan
One month after the movie, Dolphin Tale, was released, our family had a special gift of visiting Winter at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. October 2011 will forever be a special memory for us. But it also changed the way we view prosthetics in our household. When Jordan was a baby and we started using prosthetics,…
Read More +Learning to ride a bike with one hand
This summer has included so many special moments. But one of our biggest highlights focuses in on a bike. I couldn’t stop taking pictures and shooting video. After months and months of attempts and periodic moments where I was sure it could happen, Jordan finally started riding her bike. How did it happen? Well, it’s…
Read More +The dog ate my fingers
It’s true. Our seven-month-old puppy, Bailey, ate Jordan’s “bouncy hand.” It was best used for some tumbling, volleyball and playing with some of the games on the Xbox Kinect. But now the rubbery hand is missing fingers. Ugh. So now Jordan can tell people the dog ate her fingers. And he really did. Now we…
Read More +VIDEO: Using a kayak hand
Last summer, our family bought our very first kayak. It’s a used ocean kayak that we knew we’d love but waited many years until we finally purchased one. We bought some kayak paddles and Jordan got a canoe paddle. She was great at it. But she wanted to do more. She wanted to be able…
Read More +VIDEO: Getting Experimental with a Helper Arm
We’re not quite 48 hours reunited with Jordan’s helper arm, but it’s so fun to see her starting to be more experimental with it. This morning, she put it on before eating breakfast and I walked in as she was trying to hold her spoon with her helper hand. She was pretty proud of that…
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