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Latest news from Blesma, The Limbless Veterans
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Happy International Women's Day!
8 March 2021
It's International Women's Day! Here we look at the story of Blesma Member Shona Brownlee. “I looked down after my operation, and I didn’t have toes any more, which was odd,” she says. “I woke up and things were different. I was worried about having a stump – I just couldn’t imagine it – but it’s actually fine. The situation I am in now is much preferable to what I was going through before.” Shona was injured during the final exercise of her Basic Training in 2012. “It sounds stupid because it was such a minor thing,” she says. “I slid off a ledge into a loadi
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Gary Huntley nears completiion of "One Million Mile" challenge for Blesma
6 March 2021
Former Soldier, Gary Huntley, began his challenge on January 1st and set himself just 66 days to reach his target. In the process, he has also been attempting to raise £10,000 for Blesma. Gary, who served for 22 years; 12 in the 1st Battalion of The Parachute Regiment and 10 in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment has been rowing the distance on his Concept rowing machine in-between his busy days as a fitness coach. The Gary Huntley Training owner from Bedford said: “On average, its 15,000 metres a day which takes me roughly an hour to complete. It sounds like nothing
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Caring and Coping 2: An invitation
4 March 2021
Caring and Coping 2: the Family Experience of Living with Loss of Use of Limb/s aims to better understand the everyday experience of living with loss of use of limb This new project has been developed directly as a response to ‘Caring and Coping 1: The Family Experience of Living With Limb Loss’, whereby one of the issues identified was that living with loss of limb/s is very different to living with the loss of use of your limb. You can find out more about this original this research on the Blesma website by searching "caring and coping". This current
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Happy St. Davids' Day to all our Members!
1 March 2021
Dydd dewi sant hapus i chi/ Happy St. Davids' day to you! Today we are looking at the story of one brave Welsh Member, who struggled with pain for more than 30 years. Like many Blesma Members, Steve Fisher has had to endure more than his fair share of pain. This is his story, told to us in 2018 as part of Blesma's WWI Commemorative Magazine... The Swansea man joined the Welsh Guards as a Junior Leader in 1971, when he was just 15 years old. He served two tours of Northern Ireland before he was severely injured in the Falkland Islands in 1982. “My injur
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