Amputee Site
Sixteen-year-old amputee and cancer survivor Skylar Scarnecchia has never let her disability slow her down. She plays basketball for Champion High School, golfs and previously ran track. Recently, Scarnecchia fell …
Kyleen Waltman has been through one medical crisis after another since she was mauled by dogs in South Carolina in March. She lost her colon, and both of her arms …
Nikki Bradley (35), who was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma – a rare form of bone cancer – at the age of 16 has had a new knee joint constructed from …
She laid out her plan perfectly. Get into university, get the accounting degree, go out into the world, and be the best version of herself. No one, not even her …
Claire Bridges from Tampa, Florida, who was born with a congenital heart condition, was also diagnosed with myocarditis, rhabdomyolysis, mild pneumonia, cyanosis and acidosis A young model forced to have …
After losing her mother and her closest cousin to cancer, then being told she too had cancer and would need her leg amputated, Erin Brown went from worrier to warrior. …
Most people don’t wake up in the morning and spontaneously decide they want to hike the Manitou Incline. But for Lexie Bader, that was her decision. “I sat in my …
Having had her right leg amputated, seven-time world champion swimmer is eager to make a comeback at this summer’s Commonwealth Games In the days leading up to her hospital appointment …
A quadruple amputee is facing yet another health crisis — this time, it is acute myeloid leukemia — but she is determined to fight once again. Kim Steele, of Georgia, …
Sarah’s life has been a miracle since that summer when she was 18, when she had just passed her university entrance exam with flying colours and then caught meningococcal meningitis, …
