My Prosthetic Leg is a Badge of Honor. So Why Should I Hide it When There’s Nothing to Hide?

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At that moment, the memories came flooding back. I remembered being buried under the rubble of the earthquake for three days and three nights. I remembered enduring over thirty operations and being in so much pain that I didn’t know if I was alive or already dead. I remembered lying in my hospital bed, staring at the ceiling, but seeing only darkness. I was just 11 at the time and I had no idea what a prosthetic leg was, let alone what wearing a prosthesis would mean for my life.

Thanks to the support of people who have helped keep my sense of dignity intact when I was at my lowest, my leg soon became a badge of honor. I began to see it as representative of my will to live by sheer determination. It is evidence of the countless times I have fought, and fallen, and picked myself back up again. So, why should I hide it when there’s nothing to hide?

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