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Category Archives: Walking + Rolling

Challenged Athletes Need You Now More Than Ever

CLICK HERE TO GIVE Two years, two months, and fourteen days ago I went for my last run. I’m glad IView full post »

C-Brace for the Win

I don’t have my first difficult steps with crutches on video as I learned to use the C-Brace, but the clipView full post »

The Making of My Robotic Leg

For two years I have been fighting to walk again. I have shared this many times here, but for a quick recapView full post »

In Search of an Exoskeleton

Exoskeletons : Rigid external coverings for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods,View full post »

What I Would Lose To Run Again

I can’t walk, but I would lose quite a bit to run again. In eighth grade I was taller than all the boysView full post »

One Year Ago Today I Lost My Leg

Today marks one year. I can feel it in the long hot days. I can feel the floor hard against my body last July 11thView full post »

Crutches versus Chairs

“It’s so good to see you up.” I brace for it, but still it stings every time. After months of using my full leg KAFOView full post »

Disabled versus Adaptive. part 1

It’s been over nine months. Since I jumped out of bed and easily went about my day. Since I laced up my Sauconys andView full post »

Unable to Stand, but Still Loved

One moment I was a mother of four, juggling everything while my husband was deployed. I was tired but capable. TheView full post »

Answers to All Your Questions

It has been over five months since I took a normal step. That’s almost half of a year, and I no longer sit in the carView full post »

Feeling Small and Loved on My Birthday

I spent last night with four ladies who have lived through both World Wars and everything else since before there wereView full post »

The Boy at Rehab and…

He smiled at me, the boy with the braces on his legs – college age sitting in the back of the neuro rehabView full post »

Going Home

God has said few things to me. I can count them on a hand or two. We have walked closely I think, except for thoseView full post »

Doors and Diagnosis

I don’t know where to begin. I can say with certainty that doors are very difficult now. If I say anything elseView full post »

When You’re Ashamed to be Broken

My counselor said to make a new rhythm. Here are the things I do now… Go to the doctor, take showers, eat meals thatView full post »

When your wheelchair is called Karma

I do not have a theology of suffering. No I don’t. It is not that I don’t need one, it is that I need toView full post »

When My Legs Stopped Working

The internet says you’re supposed to have a message to share, a lesson learned, or a moral to the story. IView full post »