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Month: April 2021

#175 Autumn in the south: end of the week amp update

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 30/04/2021
  • amputation

Here’s my summary of the last few days events and how my week has closed out. I don’t always want to make my whole life all about the lost leg, it’s tough some times to […]

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#174 karate chopping my way through the weekend!

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 28/04/2021
  • amputation

I have now been walking around on hydraulics for a week, have tested the bike leg out a few times and recently discovered I could do something that someone with two feet couldn’t do!

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8 Years: annual musings

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 24/04/202127/04/2021
  • My news

IT has now been 8 years since I landed on NZ shores, with just a suitcase, a bike, and big hopes for the future. Here are my stand out moments in the last 12 months, […]

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#173 testing v1 of the bike prosthetic

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 23/04/2021
  • amputation

The bike leg really is a process of trial and error experimentation. So here’s what we are trying and how the first ride on it went.

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#172 Leg day no 5: hydraulic ankle Q&A

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 22/04/2021
  • amputation

With this leg came a significant ankle upgrade. I was so excited to try this! I already had heaps of questions about it so I have included all of these in today’s video blog. On […]

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