Category Archives: GCP Blog

  When a loved one has just gone through the traumatic event of having a limb amputated it can leave them pretty devastated. While I know as an amputee myself, that this process doesn’t just affect the amputee – it affects their family and their friends as well. If someone you know has just been […]

  When I found out I was having Harper I found myself really uneasy, in a way. How could I play with her? Would she love me the way that I am? I kept having these doubts that I would never be able to play softball with her like my Mom did with me or […]

Today was not a very good day. I went to my local Walmart to pick up a few groceries and household goods for our new place. I tend to use those motorized grocery carts while shopping because carrying a baby in my lap, a gallon of milk, a box of diapers, and other things all […]

    Accepting help can be really difficult, especially when you’re a really independent person. I was always super independent even when I was a small child. Two of my Mom’s favorite stories to tell about me is when I was a mere 2 years old and told her that I could make my own […]

    Looking on the bright side of things can help you to have a much happier life. Trust me, I used to live a half empty kind of life and in all honesty, that stuff is for the birds. For you, I have compiled a short list of things that can be seen as […]

I’m not sure about you guys, but when I’m planning on going somewhere I always think about the possibilities and what could happen – especially due to the fact that I am a disabled Mama. So, I tend to ask myself questions like, “What do I do if I get a flat?” While I know […]

    When I think of family I think of my Grandma, my Aunt, my sister, my Mom who all stayed with me in the hospital and helped me in the same way you would help a baby. Doing things for me that I couldn’t do for myself, without even batting an eye – never […]

(repost)  Being a single parent is hard. I knew this before I became one as I watched my beautiful, incredible, and strong mother raise three children on her own. I will always admire how impenetrable she was and how well she hid the tears that came along every so often when things got really difficult. […]

When speaking on the subject of humor and how to go about joking with an amputee, it’s really pretty simple. In fact, just being around an amputee you understand that, for the majority, we are extremely funny people.  Like the vast variety of people all over the world and from all walks of life, we […]

  Tomorrow marks a day of birth, mine to be exact. Though, I started life all over again almost 3 years ago. I’m still learning how to walk, still learning new things that go hand-in-hand with my independence. There is a song that is constantly stuck in my mind, mostly because Boss Baby is Harper’s favorite movie […]