Alexandra Boutté is bright and warm despite having survived a cancer recurrence and a right above-knee amputation within the last year. "Here I am, one leg less," she writes. "But there is nothing less about me."
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1st Person: Restoring a Sense of Balance
It’s been a while since we checked in with Angie Heuser. Quick refresher: Angie became an LAKA in December 2018, learned to surf about a year later, and ran her first 10K as an amputee a month or so after that. She also raises money (and lifts spirits) for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. A...
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1st Person: Amputee surfing
This story comes to us from Angie Heuser, a LAKA from Phoenix. Within months of her operation, she resumed running; a few weeks later she took up surfing. Follow her journey at https://steppingoutinfaith.org/. Angie Heuser rides the waves on one leg Mana is the Hawaiian word for power. The power of the wave as it takes...