Lia

Before her first birthday her leg was amputated through the right knee and she was fitted for her first artificial leg, a rigid exoeskeletal leg, she learned to walk in 2 month.

Since then, I started a search over the internet asking for support and information, that has achieved fantastic results

Here is a fragment of one of my first e-mail to I-CAN dated on February 1997:

“Hi Lorraine

Thanks for the welcome, I’ve known about I-Can for a year, but only the web page, the list is fantastic, and I´m sure that I will be here for a long time.

Please, forgive my poor expression in English, I’m better at reading than writing in your language, so for now, I will only respond to the mail about knee disarticulation, later, when I think I am ready to express my opinion correctly, I will participate more often, like you do, Lorraine.

Back to knee prosthetics, I know, from a friend in Scotland, that in the U.K. the Totalknee is not available yet, In Uruguay, it will never be available, because of the health laws, because we are a small country with only 3 million people, with no more than 10 or 15 lower limb amputee kids; so we (fathers like me) must contact people like all of you, in the first world, and absorb all the information we can, so last year I started a trip in the Internet, to find all the information I can to give my daughter Lia, the best chance to have a prosthesis with the best technology”

Now Lia is 6 years old, and has the latest prosthetic limb technology she can do anything that any 6 year old child can do and more, and I am still here, on I-CAN looking for and giving support and information. Thanks Bill, thanks I-Can.

Alvaro