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#217 Celebrating this week’s wins: how to measure your own success

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 06/12/202106/12/2021
  • amputation

Measurement of success / progress has always been vital for me, a reassurance that I am doing the right thing and moving forwards with my rehab. Here’s this weeks celebrations – plus a few tips […]

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8 months today: the other bits

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 09/06/202116/06/2021
  • My news

Today marks 8 months since they they took my left leg below the knee. It feels like just yesterday, yet at the same time feels like a million years ago. So I decided to mark […]

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#176 You’ll never guess what I’ve been doing! 😃

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 02/05/202108/05/2021
  • amputation

This weekend I went back to a few old haunts of mine in a quest to prove to myself that I CAN do this and that I AM making progress. What happened next was quite […]

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#165 Going it alone in the water & busting my bests in the walking

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 05/04/202105/04/2021
  • amputation

Taking full advantage of the surroundings while I can, today I went for an open water swim ON MY OWN.. for the first time in my life! That’s bad enough on two feet never mind […]

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#164 Easter Sunday fitness fun: in and out of the water

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

Despite the day starting in a rather crappy fashion I managed to turn it into something awesome. I also learned a valuable lesson about forming judgements about people before they talk to me. It’s interesting […]

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