in similar situations. There are amazing stories out there about people who have lost a limb from various different incidents...be one of those people. Don't sit around being bitter about life when the very fact that you are still alive and breathing is a miracle. Life is what you make, it always has been and always will be. So quit stewing and feeding your anger...and do something that makes a difference. Volunteer to spend time with terminally ill children at your local children's hospital so that they might find comfort in your regular visits. Being an amputee is not the worst card that life could have dealt you!!! Look outside the box because you were given a chance to live, and others are not. It is a blessing that you are where you are! And even though I don't know who you are...I thank Go for your life!!! Oh, SmartGirl, who believes in God but not carriage returns and paragraphs, launches a shut-up-that's-why with strawman twist at us. I wonder if she's smart enough to know that we're only angry at having to hear this same lame crap approximately once every other week. Correction: We're also angry that people are using a religion that they can't actually justify in a way that allows candidates to high offices to stand up and say things like that rape-babies are gifts from God and part of what God intended (which has to include the rape, however much doublespeak they use two days later