I just had my leg amputated recently and I had an anonymous person send me this bear. I didn’t even notice the fact that whoever sent the bear, made it just like me. This picture was taken after I had washed my face because I was sobbing. Shit like this make my day. Thank anon❤️

crossedx on March 14th, 2019 at 22:58 UTC »

A friend's dad has one of his legs amputated. There's an older man in his building with the opposite leg amputated. Whenever they buy a new pair of shoes they give the shoe they can't use to the other guy.

I thought that was one of the best things ever. Something about it makes me smile

Edit: now its bugging me, have to ask him about the shoe size!

dude_above_me_is_gay on March 14th, 2019 at 23:11 UTC »

The man, the myth, the leg end

Wildweed on March 14th, 2019 at 23:50 UTC »

Dude, at least you have your knee. Might not seem like much atm but shit, what I wouldn't give for that knee. Mine is disarticulate at the knee, I have my patella (kneecap) but no knee. You will be one hundred and ten percent after you get used to your prosthesis, the extra ten percents comes from the character you build on the road to recovery.

Dump those fucking archaic crutches and pick up a set of real crutches from WalkEasy Sure you can knock out someone with those but they are heavy as hell compared to WalkEasy.

Regarding phantom sensations, aka phantom pains. Ask your PT person to teach you relaxation techniques. That was the only way I could deal with it. I use the water submersion technique where you imagine your being slowly dipped in starting with the toes and slowly working up to the head. My Dr. told me the sensations would go away after some time, but he lied. I can still move my ankle and knee in my head, and feel it like it's there. It's been over 40 years.

Me on my walkeasy crutches.