Amplitude / Amputee / Page 2

Tag: Amputee

Article
Amputee Chef Share Their Recipes For Success
In Featured

Amputee Chef Share Their Recipes For Success

Any episode of Top Chef will show you that to succeed in the kitchen, a chef must be a good planner, keep cool under pressure, and be able to adapt to unexpected situations. Notably, these are some of the same qualities amputees must possess as they navigate through life. It may come as no surprise, then, that many chefs who are amputees have found great success in their occupations.

Article
Aargh, Mateys! Time To Get Yer Pirate On!
In Featured

Aargh, Mateys! Time To Get Yer Pirate On!

The  image that springs to mind when most people hear the word pirate is that of the traditional bearded sailor, hook-handed, peg-legged, and eye-patched. Although injuries sustained from cannon fire and sword fights did often result in the ship’s cook amputating a sailor’s infected limb to save his life (using rum as an anesthetic), he most often died from infection after the amputation surgery. Oddly enough, few pirates were actual amputees; yet the Golden Age of Piracy depicting weather-beaten, leather-skinned amputees is still the stuff great seafaring stories are made of. Given this, you’ll still find many a Jack Sparrow if you go hunting in the right places.

Article
“Make It Happen”
In Featured

“Make It Happen”

When Adapting Is Simply Living

“IT WAS UP TO ME TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ADJUST MY LIFE TO PERFORM TASKS THAT OTHERS COULD DO WITH THEIR ARMS AND LEGS.”
—JOHNNY HUDSON

  • 1
  • 2
Amplitude
});}(jQuery));