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Amplify Stories

These articles are featured in Amputee Coalition’s Amplify story campaign, an initiative to help people with limb loss and limb difference use their collective voice to bring attention to the issues so many face with their insurance providers.

John Bowman

John Bowman

I got into a motorcycle wreck three days after turning 18 on August 14, 2013. My injuries included compound fractures in my left arm and right ankle, a fractured skull, and losing my left leg above the knee.

Jeremy Affeldt

Jeremy Affeldt

Hi, my name is Jeremy and I’m a bilateral below-knee amputee. I lost my left leg 8 years ago and my right leg in May 2017. I’m an active amputee – I’m currently in a men’s bowling league after relearning how to bowl.

JW

JW

As a normally moderately active, very positive, below the knee amputee living alone, I recently ran into a unique situation where I felt that an essential rehab visit was in order, but was simply not covered by Medicare nor my supplemental insurance plans. Let me explain:

Wendy Wallace

Wendy Wallace

My name is Wendy Wallace. I am a wife, a mother and a quadruple amputee. In 2011, I developed necrotizing fasciitis.

Sonia

Sonia

My name is Sonia, and I am a double below knee amputee who lives in the UK and didn’t cycle at all when I was younger.

Norma Trujillo

Norma Trujillo

This is my story. It begins with a simple act of kindness. On April 19, 2017, a single moment changed everything. I got out of my car to help someone push their car off the road because I was worried about their safety.

Michael Procop

Michael Procop

In 2011, at the age of 61, I developed Charcots disease. This is a disease where the bones in the foot crumble. Between 2011 and 2014, I underwent four foot surgeries.

Robert (Bob) Bliss

Robert (Bob) Bliss

All my life I have been teaching. As an assistant day camp counselor, a summer camp counselor, and from running a swim school to teaching math. That is one of the many reasons I became a “Certified Peer Visitor”. To help others in this club.

Belma Islamovic

Belma Islamovic

I am original come from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1993 I lost both of my arms from actions by the Croat (Catholic) people.

Cydni Simmons

Cydni Simmons

My name is Cydni and I’m a 21 year old above-elbow upper limb amputee. This January I lost my dominant arm due to a Rottweiler attack at home.

Todd Hammond

Todd Hammond

I became a quadruple amputee in 2014, at the age of 42, from bacterial meningitis. Over 80% of my skin blistered from sepsis and I had four amputations.

John Register

John Register

I won the Paralympic silver medal just 6 years after having my left leg amputated. A world class athlete who qualified for two Olympic Trials, and a prospect for Army Officer School, I was on the success career path.