Yesterday afternoon I was off down the Surgery to see the practice nurse. We’d had no snow all day until 15 minutes before I set wheels outside the house, it was coming down really heavy. Dad came with me, which I have to say I was pleased about, as the potential to closely inspect the […]
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‘The Amputee’ a year on
November 10, 2012 
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Today is my 1st Ampuversary, I’m sure there’s no official word for this so I decided to make my own. Wow, can you believe, it a year ago today I had my left leg removed above the knee, became an amputee and my life changed forever. What a roller coaster year it’s been, plenty of […]
Continue reading Second Paralympic experience
September 9, 2012 0 Comments
Before I won the Tickets for the Paralympics a friend on Facebook had asked me if I was going, long story short we arranged to go together. That Facebook friend is Ellie, we worked at the same Prison and I haven’t seen her for about 4 years now. I booked tickets for the Women’s Sitting […]
Continue reading A roll around a Roadshow
June 21, 2012 0 Comments
We have had a lovely couple of day’s sunshine (probably our entire summer’s worth) but the opening day of the Roadshow comes and so does the rain. I wanted to go to the Mobility Roadshow last year but unfortunately it coincided with one of my stays in Hospital so I missed it. This was the […]
Continue reading Prosthetic art and my inspiration
June 13, 2012 0 Comments
Anyone who follows me on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Amputee/300078160015089 ) will remember a while back I asked for suggestions on what to draw on my prosthetic socket. I had some good suggestions and ideas of my own so I took ages deliberating before I settled on a design. The biggest problem with the socket is that […]
Continue reading Varied reactions
May 31, 2012 2 Comments
On Tuesday I spent the day at the CUOTC (Cambridge University Officers’ Training Corps) to help out at the County Forum, the ACF (Army Cadet Force) host the event but at the premises of CUOTC. I have helped out there for the last 4 or 5 years but each year have been able to do […]
Continue reading So much snow!
February 6, 2012 0 Comments
Last night phantom pain wise it was pretty good, I think we are more or less back to where we were before the form cuff experience last Wednesday. So on to this morning and I was amazed at just how much snow we had here. In some places it was at least 6 inches deep, […]
Continue reading To drive or not to drive?
January 22, 2012 0 Comments
Today a school friend and supporter of this blog asked me a question on Facebook, when I was writing the reply I thought it would make a good topic for tonight’s blog, thank you Alison. She asked me how long they envisaged before I would be able enough to drive again. She also guessed that […]
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