I started preparing for this blog post seven weeks ago. I was taking notes and making drafts and planning what I wanted to write about. This post was going to be all about how I feel as a mom and how my kids may be impacted […]

In my last post, I mentioned that my first cancer appointment and my first amputation appointment were on exactly the same day, six years apart. How do I know this? Because Facebook casually reminded on the morning of March 21st. It was a little jarring at first: you […]

Like any good inspiring superhero, I too have an origin story. It begins in the fall of 2006. I was 33 years old and living what would appear, from the outside, a fantastic life. I had a husband and two beautiful children: Lily, four and […]

Hi!  So. Here we are. Me with my coffee in hand and my laptop in…er, lap, and you reading along. But why? The answer is simple, sort of: this is the day I have chosen to start documenting my journey to one-legged freedom. Freedom from […]