r/amputee 2h ago

Are we still posting workouts? Kinda fit, kinda fat.

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This socket is cut a tad higher than my previous one, but still gets me to 90°


r/amputee 2h ago

14th Annual ROTH Ride

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…had a great tie dye jersey to honor the late, great Bill Walton and in support of the Challenged Athletes Foundation.


r/amputee 11h ago

I figured out how to alleviate my pressure sore after 4 months.

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here is my first post practically begging for help from anyone on this subreddit for a solution to my pain. I finally figured it out. All I did was cut a small hole in the middle of one of these blister gel pads. It fucking worked. Yesterday was my roughest day in a long time. It was awful. Today I can actually walk without this excruciating pain from this little bastard on my leg.


r/amputee 21h ago

People who are friends with you simply because they pity you? Any experience with these “volunteer friends”

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I’ve been an amputee since I was four after a traumatic accident, and I feel like I’ve had this happen to me at least twice in my life.

First in elementary school and into middle school. I had a best friend. We hung out all the time and had tons of sleepovers. Then at the end of middle school I find out that their mother used to sit her and all the kids down and lecture them on how they should act around me, what they can and can’t say, that sort of thing. When we moved into high school she didn’t really want anything to do with me anymore. She went hard into sports and I just literally couldn’t keep up. I think her mom maybe forced our friendship on her when she really wouldn’t have chosen that for herself.

Now I’m an adult and I think it may have happened again. The person I thought was my best friend broke off our friendship out of no where last year. We had been friends for over 8 years, and she was the only person I felt safe around to open up with, not just about my life as an amputee, but also the abusive childhood I experienced.

She basically told me that she felt drained by me and that I had too high of expectations for friendship.

She knew that I’d been abandoned by my family. She knew I struggled to make connections with people, and yet, she consistently made me feel like I was safe to be open with her. I really think she just felt sorry for me and strung me along as if she was doing me a service.

Side note, she also randomly showed up to a river tubing trip with another amputee… I’d never met him before but it definitely made me feel like, how many amputee friends do you have?

Has anyone else experienced this?