Category Archives: Walking + RollingChallenged Athletes Need You Now More Than EverCLICK HERE TO GIVE Two years, two months, and fourteen days ago I went for my last run. I’m glad IView full post » C-Brace for the WinI don’t have my first difficult steps with crutches on video as I learned to use the C-Brace, but the clipView full post » The Making of My Robotic LegFor two years I have been fighting to walk again. I have shared this many times here, but for a quick recapView full post » In Search of an ExoskeletonExoskeletons : Rigid external coverings for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods,View full post » What I Would Lose To Run AgainI can’t walk, but I would lose quite a bit to run again. In eighth grade I was taller than all the boysView full post » One Year Ago Today I Lost My LegToday marks one year. I can feel it in the long hot days. I can feel the floor hard against my body last July 11thView full post » Crutches versus Chairs“It’s so good to see you up.” I brace for it, but still it stings every time. After months of using my full leg KAFOView full post » Disabled versus Adaptive. part 1It’s been over nine months. Since I jumped out of bed and easily went about my day. Since I laced up my Sauconys andView full post » Unable to Stand, but Still LovedOne moment I was a mother of four, juggling everything while my husband was deployed. I was tired but capable. TheView full post » Answers to All Your QuestionsIt has been over five months since I took a normal step. That’s almost half of a year, and I no longer sit in the carView full post » Feeling Small and Loved on My BirthdayI spent last night with four ladies who have lived through both World Wars and everything else since before there wereView full post » The Boy at Rehab and…He smiled at me, the boy with the braces on his legs – college age sitting in the back of the neuro rehabView full post » Going HomeGod has said few things to me. I can count them on a hand or two. We have walked closely I think, except for thoseView full post » Doors and DiagnosisI don’t know where to begin. I can say with certainty that doors are very difficult now. If I say anything elseView full post » When You’re Ashamed to be BrokenMy counselor said to make a new rhythm. Here are the things I do now… Go to the doctor, take showers, eat meals thatView full post » When your wheelchair is called KarmaI do not have a theology of suffering. No I don’t. It is not that I don’t need one, it is that I need toView full post » When My Legs Stopped WorkingThe internet says you’re supposed to have a message to share, a lesson learned, or a moral to the story. IView full post » |
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