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Finding Yourself By Letting Go

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Help!

Changes and Challenges

New Socket and What to Expect
Here we go again!
Last week I told you all about a huge blister that formed in my socket on the end of my residual limb, well, after talking to my prosthetist about that and a few other things that I was ignoring, he decided that it was time to make a new socket!
UGH!
I know what you're thinking. "That's great! You'll have a better fit than what you have now", and that is true, however, the idea of going through the casting and fitting process, then a week of walking around in a hard plastic shell test socket isn't fun and then after it's all created there is a "breaking in"period that can last up to another week.
All in all, it will be better (or at least that i...

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30:13

A Leg Up On Life

Просмотров 48День назад

Dealing with Negative Emotions Post-Amputation Anger, Guilt, Shame, and Fear are all such destructive emotions. They hold us back from realizing our full potential and no one is immune to feeling them at one time or another. As amputees, we face unique challenges, including fears about our new life, future uncertainty, failures, prosthetics, and adapting to physical limitations. As a wife and h...

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Finding Yourself By Letting Go

Просмотров 2214 дней назад

Through the Eyes of a Horse What can I say, I LOVE horses! I have always loved horses, just seeing them makes me smile. Yet as a girl growing up in the suburbs of Chicago I was never around any horses. The attraction is a mystery. Never in my WILDEST dreams could I have imagined that at my age I would be surrounded by them every single day, training them, getting certified to train them, groomi...

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Help!

Просмотров 9621 день назад

How Can You Know When You Don't Know? Yep, like clockwork! Like life itself, being an amputee throws you curveball after curveball, no matter how seasoned you are. My time is now, I guess. I am almost six years out from my amputation, life has been great! I have been traveling, active, enjoying mobility and no (knock on wood) phantom pains worthy of discussion. This is the good stuff! I'm livin...

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Anticipation

Просмотров 45Месяц назад

The Ups and Downs of What Is To Come After Amputation Let's discuss Anticipation and Expectations as an amputee. Every journey is different, every path navigated in life is unique, so why would anyone think that becoming an amputee that we would share the exact same journey? We will have a similar structure as to what steps come first, second, third, etc, but wWHEN they come, HOW quickly you mo...

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Enjoying Life

Просмотров 48Месяц назад

Live in the Moment and Experience Your Best Life Take a breathe. Now slowly let it out. Breathing is an automatic response by our body, it knows that we can't survive without oxygen, but have you ever noticed your breathe being shallow or worse yet, you held your breathe in certain situations? We tend to do this in times of stress, anxiety and fear, and yes, we all face some sort of and some le...

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Prepping for Battle

Просмотров 92Месяц назад

Finding Peace and Comfort in This Hard Season How does a warrior prepare for battle? They need the right kind of armor to protect themself from harm. They need weapons to defeat the enemy, too. What is your armor? What weapons do you wield as you go into this new season, this battle, for your health and livelihood? Yes, you CAN prepare. There are things you can do to build yourself up to being ...

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Independence

Просмотров 612 месяца назад

Freedom and Joy in Movement What do you dream about doing or accomplishing? As amputees we tend to struggle with getting back out there, worried that we won't be able to live full lives filled with goals set and conquered, but that couldn't be farther from the truth! Yes, the first couple of years there is a lot of changes taking place with your body, and a whole new routine of being fitted for...

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Times of Struggles

Просмотров 792 месяца назад

Finding Peace in These Moments These are the times I struggle with the most. Yes, it can be nice to have down time but for someone like me downtime can become a bad habit and turn, quickly, into a new way of living. I realize how hard I push myself, daily. I know I pack my schedule full, every single day. If I don't keep that pace I truly become an all or nothing kind of person. Well, I am bein...

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Foraging in the Arizona Desert

Просмотров 912 месяца назад

I spent a few weeks going into the desert looking for Jojoba plants and ripe Prickly Pear fruit. Check out this montage video of what I harvested and how I used what I got from the beautiful desert. Products made: Prickly pear juice, extract, and syrup Jojoba oils Nopales #pricklypear #pricklypearrecipes #foraging #desertlife #livingofftheland #jojobaplant #jojobaoil #adaptivelife #desertplants...

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Walk It Out

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Practice Makes Permanence Let's cut to the nitty gritty. Practice makes permanence not perfection. As an amputee it takes daily, mindful practice placing one step in front of the other to get comfortable in your prosthesis. To take time to practice what feels right and looks right is important to learning the proper gait which in turn will help keep the rest of your body healthy and stronger fo...

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Traveling Amputee

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Risks and Rewards, Tips and Tricks Traveling is exhausting for anyone. Spending a day in an amusement park can take the most energetic person and turn them into a melt down of epic proportions. Add in the heat and humidity of a Florida summer AND thousands of people and it becomes an challenge that the ordinary person struggles to finish. Now add in someone missing a leg, dealing with sweating ...

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I See You

Просмотров 813 месяца назад

Setbacks Happen, You Are Not Alone The reality is that after your amputation the journey is just beginning. The journey is filled with ups and downs and everything in between. I wished I could tell you that once your limb physically heals, from the surgery, that it's all downhill from there but that wouldn't be accurate for 99% of the amputees. Most of us will deal with 2-3 years of limb volume...

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Embrace Your Starting Point

Просмотров 333 месяца назад

Enjoy YOUR Journey This is YOUR life. It looks like no one else’s and YOU are like no one else in the world….. so why do we compare our journey to everyone else’s? I understand, when life gets hard, and we see someone kicking butt and everything appears to be amazing for them, we wish that was what we had, but don’t be mistaken. Everyone has valleys as well as mountain tops. When you see someon...

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Post-Amputation Exercises: Planks

Просмотров 2293 месяца назад

Making sure your core is strong gives you the ability you need to manipulate you prosthesis with strength and confidence. Your core (stomach and obliques) when strengthened give you the stability and ability to walk and do basic movements when wearing your prosthesis and still protect your “good” side. Plank key points: Start simple, on knees (prosthesis on) if you are just starting out. Hold f...