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Sarah Doherty (December 21, 1959 – January 5, 2023) was an amputee mountaineer, ski racer, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur who lost her right leg to a drunk driver at age 13. She was a member of the inaugural U.S. National Disabled Ski Team [ 1 ] and was the first amputee to reach the summit of Denali .
Even as vendors touted advantages of more complicated prostheses over simple peg legs, [3] according to a contemporary surgeon, many patients found a peg leg more comfortable for walking. [4] According to medical reports, some amputees were able to adjust to the use of a peg leg so well that they could walk 10, or even 30, miles in one day. [5]
Purdy was born in Las Vegas in 1979. When she was 19 years old, she contracted Neisseria meningitidis, a form of bacterial meningitis. [1] The disease affected Purdy's circulatory system when the infection led to septic shock; [2] both of her legs had to be amputated below the knee, she lost both kidneys along with hearing in her left ear, [3] and her spleen had to be removed. [1]
A woman who is missing part of her arm became fed up with a lack of amputee representation in media, so she decided to create her own — and the result has warmed the hearts of thousands.
Double amputee [citation needed] 1983 Box AKA Roger Boch: Alpha Flight, Beta Flight, Gamma Flight: Marvel Comics: Double amputee [citation needed] 2013 Anna Maria Marconi Spiderman: Marvel Comics: Short stature. [citation needed] 2012 Nick Fury Jr: S.H.I.E.L.D., Secret Avengers, United States Army, 75th Ranger Regiment: Marvel Comics: Vision ...
The Lydia Amputees Foundation will hold its annual walk April 20 at Alvin Williams Memorial Park in Woodbridge. After losing her hand in an accident, Monroe woman launches nonprofit to help ...
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She was born with a medical condition that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs beneath the knee. She is the first amputee to compete against nondisabled athletes in National Collegiate Athletic Association events, and competed in the Paralympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta. In 1999, she began modeling, and, in 2002, she began an acting ...