Dear Prosthetic Leg

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