In partnership with Wheel the World, the Amputee Coalition will receive a donation with every travel booking made using the code ‘AMPUTEECOALITION.’ Recently, 17 members from the Wheel the World team, along with some family members, traveled to El Chaltén - a town...
https://youtube.com/shorts/FoyioyK93kc?si=THTsENMKCqPBJ3s4 As we reach the end of April, the Amputee Coalition thanks our entire community for all your tremendous efforts contributing to the undeniable success of this year's Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness...
STAY TRUE TO YOU. Throughout all the obstacles that we face, we must overcome and preserve our own challenges and embrace new opportunities. I’m Kadijsa Markham and at the age of 27, I lost my arm in a traumatic car accident in 2021. My arm was lost on impact.
DELAYED BUT STILL DESTINED. Greetings Thrive (AC). I (Ms. MoShay) went on a family culture pow wow on December 27, 2022, and even though I was dressed for the event, I was also dressed for the winter season (so I thought). The temperature dropped down to 8° or -8°...
OUR SWEET LITTLE GUY. My son just turned 8 years old and was born without his left hand, both feet and the tip of his tongue. There is no reason for it the doctors can figure out, you would never know any of that if you couldn’t see it. He has been in prosthetics...
THE ROLL OF OUR LIVES. "It just re-vamps and re-fuels my belief behind what's tragic, and what's a gift." I quote my late friend and inspiration Jim Maclaren from the movie "Emmanual's Gift". An amputee himself at that time, world-class triathlete, and so much more,...
DON'T LET YOUR DISABILITY DEFINE YOU. Don't concentrate on your disability, and don't let it limit you. You're enough, capable, and strong. Let your disability be physical and not in spirit or mind. Don’t let your disability interfere with your abilities.
By Alvaro Silberstein, co-founder and CEO of Wheel the World In partnership with Wheel the World, the Amputee Coalition will receive a donation with every travel booking made using the code ‘AMPUTEECOALITION.’ Since I was a little boy, I had dreamed of...
NEVER TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED. Due to the multiple health problems that the doctors anticipate I will have over the years, I had surgery on June 12. I followed the recommendation of the specialists and decided to amputate my right foot, it was an elective surgery....
DEFYING THE ODDS. My name is Anne Gladys Luggya. I am from Uganda, and I am a medical doctor. During my senior residency training in obstetrics and gynecology, I suffered a near-death accident experience in March 2022 and sustained a compound fracture of my right leg,...