Dear Prosthetic Leg

April 16, 2021 in Disability & Inclusion - No Comments
Dear Prosthetic Leg,
Thank you for supporting me.
Thank you for holding me up right and reminding me how powerful I am.
Thank you for reminding me that different doesn’t mean deficient and that different can be beautiful too.
Thank you for giving me the freedom to walk unassisted.
Thank you for helping me stay steady in the saddle, gliding across the dance floor, and sprinting across the track.
Thank you for teaching me life lessons early.
Thank you for teaching me to view people on the content of their character and not what they look like.
Thank you for showing us the love of a community.  The people that support us, cheer for us, and love on us mean the world to me.
Thank you for making me more compassionate, empathetic, and kind.
Thank you for showing me that strength isn’t always a measure of physical stamina.
Thank you for helping me navigate a world that’s not built for people like me.
Thank you for the hard times and growing pains because they made me grateful for the good times. I’ll never take a good socket fit for granted.
Thank you for helping me walk away from ignorance, prejudice, ableism and discrimination with grace and dignity.
Thank you for keeping me steady when kids made fun of me, adults stared, and bullies laughed at me.
Thank you for understanding you will never take the place of a real leg or the experience of having two feet. I will always have a bit of grief over the loss of my leg but that doesn’t negate the importance of you in my life.
Thanks for all that you do and all that you are❤
Love, Callie

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Jaime

Jaime is a writer, editor, and lifestyle storyteller focused on modern womanhood, slow living, and life after survival mode. As the founder of The Wildflower Edit, she creates thoughtful, beautifully honest content at the intersection of motherhood, disability, emotional healing, and intentional living. Her work invites women to edit their lives with care — keeping what feels true and releasing the rest — for anyone learning to bloom in their own way.

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Hi, I’m Jaime — writer, mother, storyteller, and the heart behind The Wildflower Edit. For nearly a decade, I wrote online as The Princess and the Prosthetic, sharing my daughter’s journey with disability and the lessons our family learned along the way. It was a beautiful season — full of advocacy, connection, and community — but as my daughter grew older, I felt a shift. She deserved more autonomy. More privacy. More room to decide how she shows up in the world. And I realized something else: My own story was expanding too. Motherhood was still here. Disability was still here. But so were grief, healing, womanhood, nervous system care, feminine energy, homemaking, identity, softness… the fuller, deeper pieces of life that were ready to be spoken aloud. Whether you come for the cozy routines, the motherhood reflections, the disability advocacy, or the soft life inspiration — thank you for choosing to share this space with me. Pour a warm drink. Settle in. Let’s grow a life that feels like you again.

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