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The Amputation

© Michael VanRanden

So, you are facing an amputation! This sounds like the most horrible thing that could happen to anyone. You are in the denial phase and saying to your self, they will take my leg only after I am dead. I will not be a cripple. I will not live with out my leg, do something Doc, but not my leg!

Many amputees have gone through this first step and had no one to help them through the rough spots. There will be denial and there may be the loss of life it this denial goes too far. But there is hope and life after amputation. Let us try to walk you through the process.

For some reason or another, you will be loosing part of your body. Now, do you have false teeth, or maybe wear glasses? In many ways, the loss of a limb can be linked to the loss of some of your eyesight, or the loss of your teeth. In both of these cases, you will wear a prosthetic device in order to maintain a normal life. Yes, false teeth and eyeglasses are forms of prosthetic device. As a matter of fact, so are hearing aids.

This part that must be removed, it is sick, crushed, defected form birth or some other factor has led the medical profession to decide to eliminate the part. You will get a replacement that will work as good and in some cases better than the one you have lost. I know a child who was born with a deformed foot. After about 8 years, it became too hard to walk with an artificial limb and the residual limb was becoming increasingly painful. The little child wanted the bad part removed so she could walk like the other kids. Mommy and Daddy were no so sure.

After a hard and trying time, the parents gave in to the child and Doctors and let her residual limb be removed. In about 6 weeks the little girl was up and running. In 12 weeks, she was playing baseball and soccer. These things she could not do before, because of the pain. Sometime the quality of life will be improved by the removal of something that is not working. You would not hesitate to replace your teeth or even one tooth. You will wear glasses if you can't see, and you will buy a hearing aid if you can't hear. There is really no difference in prosthetic devices, other than where you wear them.

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