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Health & Social Policy

A Healthy Life Can Cost an Arm and a Leg

“Mommy, look! That man has one leg, what happened?” I hear this so often when I walk around in shorts. I have a prosthetic leg, or a robot leg as my kids call it, and as if that wasn’t enough to make it stand out, I have a giant burnt orange Longhorn and the word […]

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Because Severed Limbs Don’t Grow Back

I was struck with an intense searing heat followed by a wet sensation over my foot. I looked down and saw the top three-quarters of my right foot hanging almost parallel to my heel by a flap of skin and boot leather — that is when the pain started. It has been three and a […]

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