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As I sit outside on this brisk afternoon, my ears are filled with the song of various birds and a soft breeze dances through my hair. I think back two years prior. I had recently found out that I was with child. I was unknowing of what my future held, scared beyond belief, and having […]

There are often times when people approach me either in real life or through social media and they boast about how truly inspirational I am. My first instinctive reaction is always, “What, me? No way!” I suppose I’ve never really done anything “inspirational” in my life. I mean, I grew up in multiple small towns, […]

Laughing can be some of the best kind of medicine. Unless you’ve just had an organ removed or a hernia repaired, then you should probably hold off laughing for a couple of days at least. Some might find it bizarre how often I make jokes about being an amputee. For instance, I have loads of […]

There is a flood of people in and out of the waiting room of the ICU. People who I had never met, people who I loved, people from my past, my present. All people of different walks of life made haven in a tiny, cramped waiting room to give their love and support to me […]

Becoming an amputee can be one of the scariest and unexpected things one can go through. On the other hand, becoming an amputee can be something that is planned out due to health issues such as, diabetes and different types of cancer and still be an extremely scary thing to go through. Prepared or not […]

    Welcome to the Gulf Coast Prosthetics Blog! My name is Myah McDonald, some of you reading might have already gotten a glimpse of my previous postings and such. I know, I know – it’s been too long, but here I am! Back at it again! I realized that my first time trying out […]