Who would be excited about losing their legs?
The hard parts did come, like the day I stood up on my prosthetic legs for the first time. I stood up for about two minutes then I went home and slept in my bed for two days, just drained. You think you’re just going to get up on prosthetic legs and walk again but, standing up in prosthetics is a completely different feeling. Your legs are completely confined and now you are relying on these feet that aren’t even attached to you for balance. I mean your feet have hundreds of bones and hundreds of muscles and all of a sudden you are trying to walk on stilts?! It was incredibly painful, so the challenge was getting into the legs and wanting to walk. So, I got a puppy. She was a crazy puppy and she loved to be outside and she loved to run away like five times everyday. My parents would say: “Well, she is your dog and you have to go and get her.” So, I would put my legs on and go and chase her through the desert and bring her back…
