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  2. List of children's books featuring characters with limb ...

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    One of the main characters is an amputee from a fishing accident. 2021 Graphic novel Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship [27] Jessica Kensky/Patrick Downes Protagonist is a girl who is a double-leg below-knee (acquired) amputee. 2021 Picture book (based on true story) Roxy and Maliboo: It's Okay to Be Different [28]

  3. Category:Fictional amputees - Wikipedia

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    B. B. D. (Doonesbury) Baba Yaga (Hellboy) Baiken; Baltimore (comics) Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire; Myrcella Baratheon; Hector Barbossa

  4. John D. Robinson (disability advocate) - Wikipedia

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    John Robinson on mountain. John D. Robinson is a congenital quadruple amputee, author, entrepreneur and disability advocate from New York. He is the subject of a public television documentary, "Get Off Your Knees: The John Robinson Story", along with a companion autobiography, "Get Off Your Knees: A Story of Faith, Courage, and Determination", [1] published in 2009.

  5. ‘We fall and we rise’: Some amputees in Sierra Leone turn to ...

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    After his amputation in 2002, he lived in a small room with a friend in Freetown, dependent on him for food, money and shelter. ... “Any successful story, there must be painful experiences ...

  6. Haunted by military past and leg amputation, Army veteran ...

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    Haunted by military past and leg amputation, Army veteran fights back to run marathons. Gannett. John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press. October 19, 2024 at 6:07 AM. DETROIT — He decided to kill himself.

  7. Miracle of Calanda - Wikipedia

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    Later, back at his parents home in Calanda, forced to sleep in a different bed, his ruse was discovered, and the story of the miracle was a way to save face. Dunning asserts "that no evidence exists that his leg was ever amputated — or that he was even treated at all — at the hospital in Zaragoza other than his own word.

  8. Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs ... - AOL

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    This is a KFF Health News story. ... a family physician and former chair of the board of the Amputee Coalition, an advocacy group. Cain wears two prosthetic legs, having lost his after an airplane ...

  9. Amputation - Wikipedia

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    Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected ...