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2 Jun '26

Happy Not Crappy

Sheila Preston Fitzgerald

The Life I Never Expected To Live.

Maggie Parker's first-person essays on life after limb loss — identity, recovery, equipment, and the long quiet work of adapting.

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  1. From Surviving to Living: The Mental Shift After Limb Loss "The accident did not destroy me — it forced me to meet myself." Maggie Parker on the quiet shift from surviving to living after limb loss.
  2. From Two Wheels to One Step at a Time
  3. Being an Amputee Does Not Define Who You Are "I didn't just lose a leg — I lost the version of me who walked in without fear." Maggie Parker on rebuilding identity after limb loss.

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From Surviving to Living: The Mental Shift After Limb Loss

Surviving is not only the moment when strangers pull you off burning asphalt, when your body is barely conscious and sirens scream around you like the world is ending. That is the version of survival

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# What MyLimb Is and Where It's Going

One of my patients once asked me where to find the flattest five-mile run in San Francisco. Another wanted to know which climbing shoe held up best on a prosthetic foot. A third wanted advice on wheth

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Announcing Events!

Hi everyone. As the community grows, we want to encourage connections beyond just the posts and comments here. To enable that, we have built this feature — Events. The idea is that the community can

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Feedback on Reactions

Hi everyone. We've added reactions — this is part of a larger feature that revolves around users asking questions and receiving help. We want to be able to identify what answers are helpful so that th

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Water water everywhere

So over the July 4 holiday we were in the panhandle of Fl. And while we were at a beach location, between the temperatures of 100+ F and people packing the beach, we decided the resort pool was a grea

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