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#124 Spontaneous Saturday

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 13/02/2021
  • amputation

Some of the best things happen as a result of spontaneity – and today was an example of that.

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#115 legs at the pool and legs on the walking tracks

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 04/02/2021
  • amputation

After a morning of getting frustrated with the crap that is always having to walk with your leg in an ever moving never quite comfortable socket, I took my sorry ass to the pool, to […]

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#111 Race Report: my very first event as a para-athlete!

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 30/01/202130/01/2021
  • amputation

I can’t even begin to tell you how emotional this day was on so many levels. Putting myself back into the sporting circles I once competed in as an able bodied athlete made me so […]

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#110 Road Trip: preparing for my first event as a para-athlete!

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 29/01/2021
  • amputation

I’m so excited, scared… such a mixture of emotions. I think it’s the para-unknown. I remember a disabled athlete friend saying to me a while back how you have to learn real fast to put […]

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#98 How to keep a prosthetic leg on

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 17/01/2021
  • amputation

There’s a lot of ways to attach body parts, I bet it isn’t something you have ever thought of before… and they give you huge issues when it’s warm weather!

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