No Witness
Living alone 6 days post below knee amputation. Imagine going through an amputation completely and utterly alone. No one to hug you. No one to hold your hand. No one to witness your struggle. No one to hold you while you grieve. No one to comfort you in pain. No one to bring you a…
30 years ago…
A raw, true-life trauma blog post reflecting on January 16, 1996—the day everything changed. At 22, trapped in a toxic marriage and impaired by alcohol and chemical fumes, the author jumped from a moving car at 60 mph on a dark Maryland highway. What followed was catastrophic injury, emergency trauma care, and a fight to…
Living Alone With Limb Loss 