Hi! Thanks for stopping by! This page is intended to share tips and techniques that I’ve personally came up with in order to live my life as an amputee. I’m posting them here in the hopes that they may help others too. And maybe along the way some of you could teach me a thing or two.
I intend to post as I can, sometimes you you may find tons of new stuff and other times…. well crickets…
When I lost my arm, I found myself in Occupational Therapy. The therapists weren’t used to having to deal with arm amps, since there aren’t many of us. So I’ve had to be inventive along the way. Also, I try not to use “adaptive” tools when ever possible. The reason is that there’s always a hardware store, supermarket, variety store, etc, near by. There is almost never an “adaptive” store around so if you forget, lose or break the needed widget, using regular items means what you can run out and get one.
Before I get started, a little about me, not that you care, but hell this IS my page after all.
My story of becoming an amp started back on June 8th of 2013 I had a motorcycle wreck. Going in to a left hand turn at about 45-50 mph the kickstand on my chopper deployed. I couldn’t make the turn and I hit the guardrail. I was thrown, and hit the vertical support post of the guardrail with my shoulder, ripping my right arm from my body and whipping me around. That broke my femur in to places, fractured 4 ribs, lacerated my liver, gave me 6 stitches in my left, a huge bloody lip and 3 broken vertebrae in my neck. Yes I can actually say that becoming an amp was a pain in the neck.. badump bump..
So lets begin, shall we?
You’ll find my articles on the left side of the page listed under How-Tos.
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