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Tracy MacCharles

Navigating Her New Normal

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Netflix's Animated Amputee Character

The animated entertainment industry scripted a new first this year with authentic casting of a disabled character.

Science & Technology

Locked Airtight with Coyote

Prosthetic technology need not always be super sophisticated when simple science solves a fit or function problem with a solid solution.

Feeling Fortunate for Family and Fortitude: Jason Lucci

Jason Lucci feels very fortunate. Not because the pasta-making machine that took his hand didn’t take more. And not because his amputation veered his life in a better direction. Family, fortitude and funding are what he is grateful for as part of his recovery.

A Leg with No Name

I’ve never named my prosthesis, which, if you know me, is strange. I named my tumour... “Bowashin”. My residual limb goes by the handle of “Forest Stump”.

Life & Limb Podcast

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