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.
Wesley Palka
Born missing my right hand, I was blessed to have amazing parents who always supported my ambitions to adapt to any activity I wanted to participate in.
Mike Pumphrey
My name is Mike Pumphrey. I had a below-knee amputation in December 2017, due to a bad infection in my left foot resulting from diabetes.
Remington Bloch
I am a 25 year old, below-knee amputee. I lost most of my right leg in a motorcycle accident two years ago.
Robert Madsen
My name is Robert Madsen. I was T-boned by a 19-year-old female on my motorcycle on September 5, 2017.
Joel Ellen
My name is Joel Ellen, and I am an above-knee amputee. In 2010, upon graduating college, I began experiencing chronic pain in my hip.
John Holman
There was that day in my life; That day when I woke to find all I had went to sleep with was now gone.
Micheal
On April 29, 2012, I was riding my Harley. A kid on a cell phone ran a stop sign.
Brian De Herrera
Born with a rare form of congenital bone fusion, Todd Logan was faced with a life-altering reality in late 2014.
Richard Slusher
I was born in 1993 in the small town of Chardon, Ohio. I was as healthy as could be, weighing in at 6.5 oz. However, I was born without a right forearm directly below the elbow.
Allison Miller
I lost my left leg above the knee in 2014 due to influenza-related bacterial pneumonia and septic shock.
Julia Soares
My name is Julia and on August 7, 2017 at 10:32 a.m. my life totally changed.
Todd Logan
Born with a rare form of congenital bone fusion, Todd Logan was faced with a life-altering reality in late 2014.