Each year, the Amputee Coalition (AC) designates April as Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month (LLAM). Throughout the month, amputee support groups across America hold events to “Show Your Mettle”. They hold walk/run/roll events in their cities to help educate and empower people with limb loss differences to rise up and reach their potential.
The AC encourages anyone who is comfortable with their prosthesis to use social media to post pictures showing their mettle with pride and positivity. Dankmeyer would like you to take a minute and read about patients that want to show you their mettle! Let their brave stories and efforts empower you to know that we all have differences and no two people are alike. These differences are what make us all unique and we all need to embrace each other.
Know that everyone needs to “Be Their Own Kind of Beautiful.” Limb loss does not mean it is the end of our world, it’s just a new beginning to finding “Our Own New Normal”. Speak up! and Speak Out! because without federal and state support we could lose the right to proper prosthetic care.
Thank you to the SHOW YOUR METTLE TEAM 2020!
