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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 ...
Live to Roam
Hans Christian Andersen Said, “To travel is to live.” I say, “To travel is to learn.” My intense love of travel started when I went to Norway as a 16-year-old exchange student in the summer of 1984, and that passion has ...
Redefining Limits With Adaptive Prostheses
Photograph courtesy of TRS. New amputees are often focused on getting back to the tasks of daily life and regaining a basic level of mobility and function. But once these goals are achieved, a desire to accomplish greater goals may ...
