Nick Ternette, seen in a file image below, is angry about the amputation of his legs but learning to accept it, his wife says. (CBC)Well-known Winnipeg activist Nick Ternette was in intensive care on Thursday after both his legs were amputated due to a massive infection.
Winnipeg activist Nick Ternette
Ternette, 64, was admitted to the Health [...]
HEYBRIDGE-based former Paralympic champion Danny Crates failed in his bid to win his last ever 800m race coming in third at the London Grand Prix on Friday.
But it was still a fitting farewell to a remarkable athlete who in recent months has been struggling with a hamstring problem.
Crates, who won the T46 800m gold at [...]
WHITEHALL — Kayak racing is a bit like life.
That is, you’re never really sure how hard it can get until you spend a little time heading up stream.
Whitehall’s John VanSanden has learned that lesson in spades, not only inside a kayak — where he recently finished fourth out of 40 participants, seconds out [...]
By Michael Hoffman – Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jul 27, 2009 15:40:44 EDT
Airman 1st Class Colton Read looked up from his hospital bed into the face of his wife. A tube down his throat kept him from talking.
Fighting back tears, Jessica Read told her 20-year-old husband that doctors had amputated his right leg above [...]
By KAREN ZRAICK
Published: July 27, 2009
A police officer whose left leg had to be amputated after he was struck by a car while on duty in Brooklyn two weeks ago left the hospital on Monday afternoon, saying more with a gesture than he did with words.
Instead of being pushed out of Kings County Hospital Center [...]
By: Janice Tai
Singapore's own "blade runner" Md Shariff Abdullah
Sportsman Md Shariff Abdullah takes marathon races in his stride, beating many others. What sets him apart is his prosthetic left leg.
Furthermore, he is poised to be Singapore’s first blade runner, just like South African Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius, once he gets a special prosthetic leg designed [...]
BERLIN — The world’s only recipient of two full arms in a landmark transplant operation said on Wednesday he expected to soon be able to toast the success of the procedure with a good Bavarian beer.
Karl Merk, a dairy farmer from the southern German city of Munich, lost both arms in an accident involving a [...]
I’ve been contacted by Patrick Cox whose message below is self-explanatory.
You can check out his Website on:Â http://www.malecancer.net./ to get an idea of what it’s all about.
Patrick says:
I represent a male cancer charity who is seeking a bold and daring
male amputee to pose naked for a male cancer campaign. Asking if you could
post this [...]
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