‘Limb(it)lessly’: His boat’s name and a credo for Lehigh Valley Cubmaster with prosthetic leg

Jeffrey Wisnoski was born to be on his feet. But his bilateral club feet didn’t get the memo.

Within hours of his birth 48 years ago, doctors put his feet in casts, and at three months, started a series of surgeries and procedures that would span five decades to correct Wisnoski’s feet that turned upward—essentially upside down.

Doctors untangled the mess that was Wisnoski’s feet, restructured bones, inserted all sorts of pins. But it worked—for the most part.

“As I recovered from that, I lived basically a normal life,” Wisnoski told lehighvalleylive.com. “I had some pain standing still; waiting in line was never a good thing. I was better at walking than standing.”

Throughout his childhood and early adult years, Wisnoski, who leads the Pack 368 Cub Scouts of Hanover Township, Northamp