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Here are some links to WEB Pages that might help you Hi my name is Teresa Martin and I'm a hemipelvectomy amputee. On March 29,1996, I had a hemipelvectomy, for those of you that don't know what that is... I lost the left side of my pelvis, left side if my tail bone and the left side of the L4 and L5 vertebrae. All of it to one of the many cancers that are out there. After looking for a prosthetist to make a leg for me in Ontario, I ended up at Award Prosthetics in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Working with the amazing Tony van der Waarde, who after being faced with the hardest case in hemi's ever - I WALKED!! The thing that I was told by many people in Ontario I'd never do. So now I'm working to fix everything that has gone wrong over the last two years. Being in bed for two years and scoliosis has caused a few problems! So about me...I'm 27, I'm a make-up artist for a company called M.A.C. I can't wait to return to work. I had to give up all of my old hobbies. Being 6' I was very active, that's why I got this computer and I'm currently back in school part-time. I have a long road ahead of me. One of my goals is to show other hemipelvectomy amputees is they too can walk with the aid of a prosthesis. Since many medical professionals are unfamiliar with the procedure and its prosthetic solutions, more education and inspiration is needed. We want to help them and put everyone in the right direction. I'm not a writer but a number of people have mentioned a book. I'm not sure. Any good ghost writers out there? I don't thing there's much of a story. But I have to agree with Ivy Gunter, on the fact that you should wait to write your book, until you've done healing. That's the best advice I've heard in a long time. |
