AI: Over 2.1 million people in the United States are living with limb loss, and 80% of amputees suffer from a condition known as phantom limb pain. Phantom limb pain is ongoing nerve pain in a missing limb after it has been amputated because the brain cannot recognize that the limb is ...
right lower leg below the knee has been amputated left leg is dead with Charcot retina neuropathy (shots in both eyes once a month) I am legally blind high stage 3 Kidney Disease, I am 2 points away from dialysis spinal stenosis in 4 vertebras which I have limited use of my arms and...
The Amazon society was described as stringently matriarchal. Males were of no use other than for mating purposes and as slaves, doing work that was traditionally performed by women. The limbs of the men were amputated so that they could not rebel and escape. Male babies were either given awa...
in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Self, Glamour, and more. She has a master’s degree from American University, lives by the beach, and hopes to own a teacup pig and taco truck one day. ...
(ok, baby woolly mammoth). When the hair starts to grow back, it feels like I've glued sandpaper to my shins; as for shaving my armpit hair, no way. I could not cope with the gruelling pressure and schedule that most women have to endure. I barely even shave my face, never let ...
General Sickles himself fell wounded. He was on horseback when a 12-pound cannonball mangled his right leg. He was carried by stretcher to a field hospital, where his leg was amputated just above the knee. He insisted on being transported to Washington, DC, which he reached on July 4, ...
s. At that point, a six-pound cannon ball, probably fired by a gun of the Lynchburg Artillery, tore off his right leg and killed his horse. The stricken major was then carried to the field hospital at Sudley Church, where army surgeons amputated the remainder of Ballou’s shattered leg....
May is here, and I don’t know about you, but for me, it brings up so many memories, events, and celebrations like… May Day, National Day of Prayer, Cinco De Mayo, Nurse’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Mother’s Day, Armed Forces Day, Birthday’s, Parent’s Anniversary, and lest we ...
My relationship with exercise hasn’t always been great. I was born with something called fibula hemimelia, meaning I was missing a fibula. My leg was also underdeveloped and shorter than the other, and because of the missing fibula I had a malformed ankle and foot. During my childhood it ...
leg by a rifle ball, shattering the femur. He was carried to a nearby house with his bloody leg dangling off the side of the litter. Doctors amputated his right leg just below the hip. In less than seven weeks, Hood lost the use of one arm and underwent the amputation of his leg. ...