10th November Sunday 10th November was my 2nd Ampuversary, apart from a small post I put on Facebook it slipped by mainly unnoticed. It wasn’t quite how I’d expected and envisioned it to be and there was very little, in fact nothing to celebrate. I’d expected to be running off a list of achievements and […]
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‘The Amputee’ a year on
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 […]
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The worst month so far
Two days over 4 months since becoming an amputee and this has been the worst month so far. It hasn’t been because of pain or anything like that but pure bloody frustration. I had been doing so well, recovering so fast and things were progressing quickly, now it’s like I’ve hit a sodding great big […]
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The walking lessons begin
Hmmm this title makes the blog sound like a baby album! In a way though it is a bit like that. There are lot’s of things as an amputee that you have to start doing in a totally different way, goals and milestones to achieve and some things that you have to learn again, in […]
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Mission accomplished!, well almost
For today I had set two goals, the first was to have a wash in the bathroom and the second was to get dressed into day clothes, all leading up to going to the cafe and buying Jan a coffee. I had a plan of action and gathered up my wash kit which was actually […]
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January 2, 2014 