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#260 Weekend away without a wheelchair!

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 28/05/2023
  • amputation

This is the first time I have ventured out of town on a plane without a wheelchair. Here’s how it went.

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The whispers from within

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 26/05/202326/05/2023
  • amputation

It won’t leave me.. That yearning, for sport.. for challenge, for a purpose, for a goal. I have been searching for two and a half years. I have read books, absorbed online videos and articles […]

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Is there a ‘correct kind of hurt’?

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 25/05/202325/05/2023
  • amputation

Last weekend I walked Parkrun for only the third time ever (on two feet). The first time took me 1 hour 19, the second took me 1 hour 9, last weekend took me 58 mins. […]

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258 HDC decision: was a medical error made?

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 03/05/2023
  • amputation

After an almost 2 year long investigation into the circumstances surrounding my limb loss in 2020, I have a final decision back from the Health and Disability Commission. Here’s the result.

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Sunday afternoon: come ride with me!

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 16/04/2023
  • training
  • Video

Sunday afternoon – a beautiful autumn day so there was only one thing to do- a bike ride!

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