One of the doctors told me that I was going to make it, but, in his opinion, two other guys who were less severely injured than I, weren't going to survive. Some guys when they lose a leg, think their life is over,' the doctor said. After he worked for nearly 40 years as a thermal insulation contractor in Pittsburgh, a job which involved quite a bit of physical labor, most people still didn't know Bob was an amputee. Nowadays, thanks to technology, I don't have to wear a wooden leg, leather corset, and wool sock liner. 1998 Bob is a walking historian as far as changes in artificial limbs are concerned.
Today there is so much emphasis on understanding physiology.
I thought house calls were a thing of the past. When I lived in Pittsburgh there were more prosthetic limb shops than any other city in the world. World War I and II vets, along with steel mills and coal mines, made for good business. A relative newcomer to the Charlotte area, Bob and his wife moved to the city a year ago from Hilton Head to be closer to their children.