SARCOMA TOOK MY LEG BUT NOT MY ZEST FOR LIVING. In 2011, I had sarcoma in my right calf. I had surgery and radiation and thought I was finished with it. In 2022, it returned, and I had to have below the knee amputation. It was very stressful until I got my prosthetic....

DETERMINED THROUGH IT ALL. On September 4th, 2015, my right arm was torn off at the elbow by a conveyor belt at the recycling plant I was working at. I was in the hospital for only 6 days before being transferred to GF Strong Physical Rehabilitation Centre to regain...

DETERMINED THROUGH IT ALL. I have been a below-knee amputee since August 2021. I also have three fingers on my left hand partially amputated. I am thankful to GOD, family and friends for the prayers and support I have received over the past three years. It has not...

ACHIEVED SELF LOVE. At the age of 12 Kimberly was diagnosed with one chronic illness and one autoimmune Scleroderma and Raynaud's which caused her to have seven fingers partially amputated. At 21 she had two strokes and was diagnosed with anti-phospholipid syndrome....

UNDIFFERENTIATED PLEOMORPHIC SARCOMA (UPS) TO BKA. This whole ordeal started about fifteen years ago +/- five years. I kept going to my PCM for a knot (size of a quarter) on my right leg about 6 inches above the ankle. The PCM kept saying if it was not bleeding and or...

INSPIRED. Why do people try to inspire others? Is it because we genuinely care about everyone's life, or because we need to feel that we can motivate and empower others? By inspiring others, we help them believe they can achieve anything they set their minds to. And...

LOST IDENTITY. I have been a soldier for 35 years (20 years active and 15 years as a defense contractor), and when I lost my leg the military was taken away from me. I lost who and what I was. I spent many nights trying to figure out what will I do now that I don't...

MOST USED LEAST RECOGNIZED. My WeThrive story begins July 6, 2016. The day that I became a 3 finger partial hand amputee. I remember laying in the hospital bed missing 60% of my right hand, wondering what life was going to be like going forward. I was the father, the...

IT IS WHAT IT IS. As a traumatic upper limp amputee I decided to let the bad thing that happened to me define my in a good way.  

TRYING TO WRITE THE WRONGS. Hi! I am a thriller author who was working on my third book when I had my right pinky finger severed by a faulty pontoon gate design on my dominant hand last summer. After four surgeries, I have had what was left of that bone removed in a...