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Matchmaking: An Amputee’s Guide to Finding the Right Prosthetist
Finding a prosthetist is a lot like dating. This is an extremely important, even intimate relationship. Here's how I've learned to tell the princes from the frogs ...
Podcast for Amputees Promotes Active Listening
I didn’t realize podcasts can do more than inform and entertain. But when I started a show for amputees, I learned that podcasts are really about building a community ...
Senior Housing for Amputees: Finding Your Last Address
If you're looking for a senior housing community that supports amputees, it’s never too early to start planning. Here are the questions to ask and the factors to consider ...
What’s So Toxic About Toxic Positivity?
Hiding negative emotions behind an artificially positive facade is supposed to be bad for you. But when I did this after limb loss, it actually helped...until it didn’t ...
Change of Course
Septuagenarian strives for independence after amputation ...
Barrel Of Laughs—Amputee Humor: Funny Or Offensive?
By Elizabeth Bokfi “How are you doing these days, with that little peg leg of yours?” said an acquaintance of mine with whom I had worked on a very important community project years ago—an older gentleman, a professional, and someone ...
Barrel Of Laughs – Amputee Humor: Funny Or Offensive?
Words Elizabeth Bokfi “How are you doing these days, with that little peg leg of yours?” said an acquaintance of mine with whom I had worked on a very important community project years ago—an older gentleman, a professional, and someone ...
Back To Life—Overcoming Negativity And Finding Meaning After Limb Loss
By Tony Phillips Amputation is much more than a physical loss. It is a permanent alteration of one’s natural body, usually accompanied by a significant change in self-identity. In most cases, people who experience limb loss find that the body ...
