Tag: Health & Medicine
Millennials on the March
Don’t look back, Baby Boom amputees. Millennials and Gen Zers are nipping at your heels. “When you get a disability, you start to think really critically about things,” says bilateral amputee Samuel Rossiello. “There are a lot of people in my age group that just don’t know how to deal with mediocrity.” That’s one of...
PAD: Hiding in Plain Sight
Many people associate peripheral arterial disease (PAD) with diabetes. But you don’t need to have diabetes to develop PAD, and the symptoms can be so mild that many people don’t even notice them. All too often, the disease is far along by the time it does get diagnosed, and amputation (especially leg amputation below the...
Telehealth Case Study: Sheila’s New Foot
Rural Iowa is gorgeous. But when you need to see a prosthetist to adjust your new high-tech foot, and you can't travel because of COVID-19. . . . .then what?