Mr
Falmouth
This sighting
is one taken with a digital camera and shows a guy with a leg brace on
his left
leg and
a deformed right foot. After the photo was taken I got the chance
to ask the guy about
his condition
and he informed me that as a child he had polio which weakened the muscles
in his
left leg, they gradually became so weak and wasted that a leg brace
was needed to support
his leg,
the leg brace is hinged at the knee and can be locked rigid or unlocked
to allow his
knee to
bend when sitting.
The
growth in his right foot is stunted and is considerably smaller than
his left foot
he informed
that it always grew slowly due to polio and stopped growing completly
when he
was about 10 years old and is about a size 4 shoe (about 6 inches in length).
