The Amputee

Help for all amputees Today a package arrived and I noticed by the postmark that it was from the...
I have a new leg Today was a momentous day really as it was the day I was fitted with my new...
The phantom in me Today has been relatively quiet, the Consultants and physios are not in and it...
Let’s play catchup! So here we are, the first proper entry. On Thursday the 10th November after a...

Help for all amputees

December 18, 2011 by theamputee 0 Comments

Today a package arrived and I noticed by the postmark that it was from the Limbless Association http://www.limbless-association.org/ . I had decided to join them the other day and joined as a lifetime member at a cost of £150 as opposed to the yearly £20. There was stacks of brochures and information in the pack [...]

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I have a new leg

December 13, 2011 by theamputee 0 Comments

Today was a momentous day really as it was the day I was fitted with my new leg. It was up at a sparrows fart this morning to get to Addenbrooke’s for 08:00, even though we left really early we were still 10 mins late due to the traffic (note to self, get up before [...]

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The phantom in me

November 19, 2011 by theamputee 0 Comments

Today has been relatively quiet, the Consultants and physios are not in and it is more relaxed in the morning. I have done my exercises today and increased my reps slightly but will keep them the same tomorrow. I had another wonderful visit today from a former colleague, he brought me some nice juicy grapes [...]

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Let’s play catchup!

November 13, 2011 by theamputee 2 Comments

So here we are, the first proper entry. On Thursday the 10th November after a restless night I came into Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon for a left above knee amputation. I had only spoken to a couple of people about it, one being an amputee himself. There was a couple of reasons for not tell anyone [...]

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Two achievements in one day!

May 28, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

Yes today has been a good day. I managed to get my prosthetic leg on (couldn’t get it on at all yesterday) but ended up with a massive hole in my Donning Sleeve, I will have to try and get another one when I am physio on Wednesday. The day started buy driving roughly 10 [...]

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An epic walk

May 27, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

The other day I fiddled with the car seat to see if I could get it in a position to be able to drive with my prosthetic leg on. When I had a Peugeot 207 and you raised or lowered the seat it changed the pitch of the seat, in my Peugeot 5008 it does [...]

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A walk in the real world

May 25, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

Off the back of the ‘inspiring’ physio session on Wednesday, yesterday gave me the opportunity to go out with my prosthetic leg on. Don’t get too excited by this news, it was only to a local Supermarket. I was a little sore/aching from yesterday but thankfully it only took a couple of attempts to get [...]

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Slightly inspirational physio session

May 24, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

I know, the words inspirational and physio in the same sentence, hard to believe. It has been a hard week with the leg and yet again getting fed up with it. I found out on Monday that I can’t drive with it on, so need to try and sort the car somehow and the camber [...]

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Employment & Support Allowance Stopped

May 19, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

Before I went away on holiday I had to go to Cambridge for my medical assessment as part of my renewal claim for ESA (Employment & Support Allowance). When I got home from Wales there was a letter waiting for me from the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) dated the 3rd May, it told [...]

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The end of the break

May 15, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

Friday was the last day of my time in Wales and a sunny day it turned out to be. We visited one church which was high up in the mountain, so high in fact it felt like we were on top of the world. All that was there was the church on one side of [...]

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Good use of a bad day

May 13, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

I had done a lot of research on Dads side of the family before we came away so I was glad he had a U-turn and decided to try and find out more while we were there. Thursday was the second and last bad weather day so that gave us the perfect opportunity for a [...]

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Wet weather and swimming

May 13, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

Although I kept my fingers crossed our luck with the weather didn’t hold and Wednesday was the first bad weather day. The low cloud covered the tops of the Mountains, it was drizzling and looked set in for the day. Thinking it may not turn to really heavy rain we decided to travel along the [...]

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