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Amputation
12 min read
Also known as: loss of a limb · severance of a body part · leg amputation · arm amputation · loss of an extremity · surgical limb loss · severance · amputation consequences · phantom limb · stump formation · limb removal
Your Body Is Speaking
A part of you is no longer there. A leg, an arm, a hand, a foot, a finger — a piece of your body that once belonged to you has been removed. Whether through an accident, war, illness, or medical necessity: what remains is a body that is different from before. And a life that must reassemble itself.
Medicine can explain why this operation was necessary. It can fit prostheses, care for wounds, treat pain. And yet a dimension remains open that surgery alone cannot reach: the inner reality of a person who is missing something. The phantom that is still perceptible even though it no longer physically exists. The grief for what was. The question of who you are now.
An amputation is not only a physical procedure, but an incision into the self-image. And that is precisely where the real work begins.
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