Tag: Touchstone Rehabilitation
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What’s Your Mountain?
“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” -Richard M. Nixon “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” -Sir Edmund Hillary There are many types of mountains we all have to climb, or will climb, or be forced to…
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Hiking: A fresh new article I wrote for Living With Amplitude magazine
I am excited to share with you an original article I wrote on hiking as an above knee amputee, published by Living With Amplitude magazine. I have spent the past 2 months finding new climbs and challenges in Northern Arizona, Utah and Idaho. Check out the link below for the article, published on July 22,…
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Get Out and Play
“Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.” Stuart Brown, MD I have spent the past year making up for lost time. For those of you who don’t know me or my story I was sidelined from my normal activities 7 years ago by a…
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Running the Race: Step by Step
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.” Helen Keller That hill you see before me was quite intimidating. As you can see by my head down, my focus wasn’t on the long, incline ahead, just the next…