Stepping Forward

Learning to live with a prosthetic limb is not a single event but an ongoing negotiation — between the device and the body, between former ability and new capability, between the self before and the self now. The writers in this volume are somewhere inside that negotiation.

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts trace the prosthetic limb experience: the initial fitting and the steep learning curve, the adjustments and malfunctions, phantom pain and its management, the emotional terrain of changed embodiment, and the gradual finding of a new ordinary. Voices include those with congenital differences and acquired amputations.

Who it's for

For new amputees, those mid-adaptation, their families, and caregivers wanting a human map of this territory before they encounter it themselves.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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