by Chloe - 24 August 2011
I felt ready to push the envelope a bit in this mode of hiking with leg braces. I decided to go alone and 100% off trail. There was inevitably going to be some boulder hopping too; I’m familiar with what to expect in such an area even though I’d never done this particular hike before. And yes, the idea of all this scared the crap out of me. However, I am accustomed to scaring the crap out of myself; it seems to be a habit of mine.
Bilateral Leg Brace Hike Number Two continues »
by Chloe - 14 August 2011
I finally got around to doing a hike with bilateral leg braces and crutches. This is the hike to a high elevation lake that I mentioned wanting to do almost two years ago.
Bilateral Leg Brace Hike Number One continues »
by Sean - 29 October 2010
Something just triggered a memory about often going to a particular church as a young teenager. I would go and pray to be "healed". It didn’t work.
Reverse Miracles – Never Happened continues »
by Chloe - 28 October 2010
We needed to get our car fixed, so I wasn’t going in to work last Friday. Alicia and I would be spending most of the day together, and it was a nice opportunity to satisfy my occasional desire to wear bilateral KAFOs. I wore my hot pink outfit. It is no longer a concern that anybody might look at my braces. It’s just irrelevant to me, though sometimes it can be entertaining.
A Day in KAFOs continues »
by Chloe - 23 August 2010
My disability presentation has evolved over the last two years. It has lacked consistency, both over time and also between different groups of people. I’m not sure I could have done it any other way. I needed to experiment in order to find an optimal presentation for treating my BIID. These things simply weren’t obvious to me ahead of time. However, it leaves me with the discomforting baggage of being known in different ways to different people.
Consistent Presentation continues »