Accident Quote by Alex Brooker

I've been a bilateral amputee since birth and don't know anything else.

— Jessica Long

I was very close to having my whole leg amputated. It was a life-altering event. It took years of rehab.

— Jay Williams

There are more challenges as an amputee than I had when I was racing with both my legs beforehand but it's something I enjoy…

— Billy Monger

I think that it takes a special person to still feel like themselves after losing a limb.

— Simone Missick

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

At 18 months old, both of my lower legs were amputated so I could be fitted with prosthetic legs and learn to walk.

— Jessica Long

“You don't limp at all. Your recovery is going well." "Yes." Though whether someone ever fully recovered from losing a limb, he didn't know.…

— Laura Oliva

They amputated my my right leg right below the knee. It was a tough decision, but it had to be done.

— George Mikan

My left leg had to be amputated from below the knee immediately to prevent gangrene from setting in. I was losing blood alarmingly. Here…

— Arunima Sinha

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or…

— Aimee Mullins

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

— Aimee Mullins

“leg in an amputee. Over the centuries, medical treatment had become quite adept at fixing parts of the body that were broken: a shattered…

— John Burley