http://thejoeandjill.blogspot.com/2013/04/im-riding-bike-again.html
You must check out this link! I'm riding a bike again for the first time in five years!
Monday, April 22, 2013
Monday, November 14, 2011
Follow me....
Hi fellow amputees!
I've decided to simplify things and no longer post to this blog. I rarely post to this blog because I have a family blog I post to. My amputation is part of my life but certainly not the whole of my life. Please flow me on my family blog as I will still post things about my amputation there. Google "The Joe and Jill Chronicles" and follow me there! http://thejoeandjill.blogspot.com/
Love ya!
Jill
I've decided to simplify things and no longer post to this blog. I rarely post to this blog because I have a family blog I post to. My amputation is part of my life but certainly not the whole of my life. Please flow me on my family blog as I will still post things about my amputation there. Google "The Joe and Jill Chronicles" and follow me there! http://thejoeandjill.blogspot.com/
Love ya!
Jill
Friday, November 11, 2011
Conundrum...
I've said often times that I want to start a support group for Amputees in Northern Utah; and I do want to but I haven't gotten around to it. I have made a flyer, I have found places that will allow me to hold meetings, I have a list of amputees in Utah that may be interested. So why haven't I started the group? Good question!
Here is why, I'm torn between wanting to share my story and and wanting to move on from my story. I don't want to make my amputation the center of my life. I do want to help others going through the trauma of limp loss, conundrum...
Here is why, I'm torn between wanting to share my story and and wanting to move on from my story. I don't want to make my amputation the center of my life. I do want to help others going through the trauma of limp loss, conundrum...
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Fellow Amputees
Hello friends!
I have not blogged as much as I've wanted to. I'm so sorry. I have been blogging about other things though. I have found the longer I'm an amputee the less of an issue it is to be one.
May time does heal all wounds.
:)
I have not blogged as much as I've wanted to. I'm so sorry. I have been blogging about other things though. I have found the longer I'm an amputee the less of an issue it is to be one.
May time does heal all wounds.
:)
Friday, April 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The Leonardo exhibit in April.....
I am going to participate in an exhibit this Spring!!!! The exhibit is about amputees and prosthetics. I'm so excited!!!!
JJBean
JJBean
Monday, January 17, 2011
Inspiring story.
Brutalized in the civil war, these soccer playing amputees in Sierra Leone are overcoming their disabilities and inspiring a nation.
For many African nations, the 1990s was a decade of civil war. Liberia, Rwanda, both Congos, Uganda… many of these conflicts and new ones continue today. In Sierra Leone a brutal conflict lasted from 1991 through 2000. Many of the combatants were child soldiers conscripted and armed with machine guns and machetes. Over half the population (some 2.5 million) was displaced and casualty reports range from over 50,000 to over 200,000 with thousands tortured and maimed. The thousands of amputees who didn’t die are now, for the most part, destitute, unemployed young adults, many with little hope for the future.
Some defy the odds. A few have been doing it by playing soccer and a refugee from Sierra Leone who now lives in Canada has set out to share their stories in an inspiring documentary that is in the final hours of its fundraising campaign on Kickstarter. To find out more about the project or contribute, please visit their page
http://www.globalshift.org/2010/11/01/leone-stars-amputee-soccer-players-inspire-a-nation/
For many African nations, the 1990s was a decade of civil war. Liberia, Rwanda, both Congos, Uganda… many of these conflicts and new ones continue today. In Sierra Leone a brutal conflict lasted from 1991 through 2000. Many of the combatants were child soldiers conscripted and armed with machine guns and machetes. Over half the population (some 2.5 million) was displaced and casualty reports range from over 50,000 to over 200,000 with thousands tortured and maimed. The thousands of amputees who didn’t die are now, for the most part, destitute, unemployed young adults, many with little hope for the future.
Some defy the odds. A few have been doing it by playing soccer and a refugee from Sierra Leone who now lives in Canada has set out to share their stories in an inspiring documentary that is in the final hours of its fundraising campaign on Kickstarter. To find out more about the project or contribute, please visit their page
http://www.globalshift.org/2010/11/01/leone-stars-amputee-soccer-players-inspire-a-nation/
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