Last week at PT, Luke got a chance to walk with yet another walker. This one was the same brand and basic style as the one we have ordered (Nermi Neo Walker), but this one had a new piece of “hardware”.
The walker we have been working with at PT was pretty much exactly the same as what we ordered for Luke, including a Pelvis support. Which for Luke, he doesn’t always need but it is a great tool to have to remind him to stay in the middle of the walker.
The only thing wrong with this walker is that we think it had been in some kind of “accident”….the strangest thing would happen. When you just look at the walker it looks absolutely perfect, all four wheels on the ground and no apparent problems. Only when Luke starts walking with it, he gets about as far as two rotations of the rear wheel and all of a sudden the walker pulls to the left and the left rear wheel comes up off the ground. So strange! No matter what we tried we couldn’t seem to fix this issue. Although, Luke adjusted quickly and two weeks ago the whole “pulling to the left” thing didn’t seem to bother him…it was like he “knew” and adjusted accordingly.
Anyhoo…last week we finally got another walker to work with…but this one (as I said above) had a new piece of “hardware”…instead of a “pelvis support” it has an attached seat!! It is attached in such a way that it folds up when you aren’t using it.
Well Luke was so perplexed by this that when he first got into this walker to try it out, he didn’t do his usual “get in and turn around” routine. Instead he stood up, got in, turned around and then decided to do another 360 inside the walker…like he was just double checking what was back there or something! So funny!
Then of course eveyr other time we stopped on our “walk” around the therapy building, he would start to turn around to do another 360 inside the walker again! It was like he couldn’t get enough or he was still unsure about what was behind him and he had to check it out again…and again…and again. Silly little man!
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