The Disability Experience II by Debbie Johnson - HTML preview

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Amputation

Six years ago today

A major alteration underway

Life would forever change

And circumstances rearrange

Everything about my life

For a while causing major strife

It was a left leg amputation

Not a good situation

Didn’t know if I could cope

But never gave up hope

The first couple years were rough

In fact, really tough

Looking at my life today

It took me in a different way

I learned how to appreciate

What I did previously deprecate

Don’t know how life would have been

Had it not happened

But I am where I am today

Because of what I’ve encountered along the way

There is a reason for everything

My life does bring