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  2. Stephanie Dixon - Wikipedia

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    Stephanie Dixon, CM (born February 10, 1984) [1] is a Canadian swimmer. She is a three-time Paralympian and competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Paralympic Games prior to retiring from competitive swimming in 2010. During her career, Dixon won nineteen Paralympic medals and seven Parapan American Games medals, and was a 10-time world champion ...

  3. Tracy Ashton - Wikipedia

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    Tracy Ashton is an American film and television actress. She earned a degree from Southern Illinois University in dance prior to becoming an amputee due to cancer. A comic performer, she is best known for playing disabled characters, including a recurring role as the one-legged Didi in the television series My Name Is Earl.

  4. Sarah Doherty - Wikipedia

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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 .

  5. Amputee veterans bare all in empowering photos - AOL

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    Sexy Amputee Veterans Bare All in New Art Book. A new book shines a light on the effects of war in a body-positive way. Photographer Michael Stokes is raising money for a new coffee table book ...

  6. List of amputees in film - Wikipedia

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    Trilateral (left arm and both legs) Trauma (insect) Captain Hook: Peter Pan: Left hand Trauma (knife) Cherry Darling Planet Terror: Right above-knee Mutilation (zombies) Lady Eboshi Princess Mononoke: Right arm Trauma (wolf) Harold Pointer Intent Unknown: Bilateral below-knee Trauma (gun shot) Will Sawyer Skyscraper: Left below-knee Trauma (bomb)

  7. After losing her hand in an accident, Monroe woman launches ...

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    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 ...

  8. Amputee receives startling note from woman who parked in her ...

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    Unfortunately, Ashley Brady, a 26-year-old amputee in Ohio had to deal with an unpleasant woman who had parked in a handicapped spot. A note left on Brady's windshield noted in part , "Hey handicap!

  9. Peg leg - Wikipedia

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    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]