Words, words, words
I'm slowly being convinced to refer to my various shoe modifications as a prosthesis. We've (parents, me, doctors) always referred to them as either prostheses or orthotics, depending on what insurance felt like covering at the time, and it never really mattered. But three visits to a podiatrist has convinced me that if you call it an orthotic (on the basis that it's a shoe modification and shoe insert), people don't think about it right. Prosthesis seems like an overkill kind of word, but since the lift is functionally replacing an inch and a half of leg, it actually fits the function better.
I reached this conclusion this morning, as the nurse asked, for the second time, whether I'd been 'wearing my inserts'. Which she may have called 'prefab', meaning apparently 'our office could not charge you for them since they came from elsewhere.'
YES, OKAY, THAT IS THE ONLY WAY I WEAR SHOES, IT WAS CUSTOM MOLDED TO MY FOOT AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH STEPPING WRONG IN A FREAKING CAVE.
The podiatrist gave me exactly what I needed for my injury (yay, miracle injections!) but it is sooo painfully clear that their day-to-day is totally not built for patients like me. :P
I reached this conclusion this morning, as the nurse asked, for the second time, whether I'd been 'wearing my inserts'. Which she may have called 'prefab', meaning apparently 'our office could not charge you for them since they came from elsewhere.'
YES, OKAY, THAT IS THE ONLY WAY I WEAR SHOES, IT WAS CUSTOM MOLDED TO MY FOOT AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH STEPPING WRONG IN A FREAKING CAVE.
The podiatrist gave me exactly what I needed for my injury (yay, miracle injections!) but it is sooo painfully clear that their day-to-day is totally not built for patients like me. :P