"To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation"

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The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

— Terry Fox