{"id":4513,"date":"2008-06-18T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T07:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/18\/please-wont-you-amputate-my-foot\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:13:00","slug":"please-wont-you-amputate-my-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"Please, won’t you amputate my foot?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an article in The Boston Globe<\/em><\/a>, by S. I. Rosenbaum:<\/p>\n

SOMERVILLE – Here is Bonnie Denis: pierced and tattooed and dreadlocked, balancing on a pair of custom-painted, raspberry-pink crutches.<\/p>\n

Here is Bonnie Denis’s right foot: small and calloused and square, the arch bent outward, toes overlapping each other like windblown trees.<\/p>\n

When she walks, it feels “like there are a bunch of knives stabbing me,” she said.<\/p>\n

So about three years ago, after a host of surgeries and years using a wheelchair, Denis, 30, made a decision.<\/p>\n

The foot was coming off. She would find a doctor to amputate it.<\/p>\n

But it was not that simple.<\/p>\n

Doctor after doctor turned her away. The foot was “healthy,” they said. The tissue was alive; blood circulated through it. Amputation was not absolutely necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stories like this make me feel very libertarian. It’s her body, dammit! This — doctors who don’t seem to believe that people with disabilities may have some idea of what’s best for their own bodies — seems to me a pretty common theme in writing by and about disabled folks.<\/p>\n

There’s more at the Globe<\/em>. Bonnie Denis did eventually find a doctor who is willing to help her, you’ll be glad to hear. I also liked the bit about zombie bones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an article in The Boston Globe, by S. I. Rosenbaum: SOMERVILLE – Here is Bonnie Denis: pierced and tattooed and dreadlocked, balancing on a pair of custom-painted, raspberry-pink crutches. Here is Bonnie Denis’s right foot: small and calloused and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disabled-rights-issues","category-libertarianism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15894,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/15894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}