I'm burying a friend today

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3. I wish someone like you had been invited to visit my friend

He thanked me for telling him about amputees who went on to do whatever they had done before in life and said it helped, that it made him feel better, but if he had been willing to go to PT he probably would have met people who were doing just fine with their prostheses. It's one thing to be told that it's going to be OK, but quite another to see for yourself.

I'm so happy for you. Advances in prosthetics just in the 20 years since I worked in the field have been astonishing. Even back then, lower limb amputation was never the death sentence my friend turned it into.

Thank you for telling me your story.