A sidenote on amputation

Perhaps this is non pc of me, but I have become fascinated by prosthetic legs. People around here all wear shorts and show off their 'legs' proudly. There is such an assortment, from those that loook like human skin to those unusual looking 'blade runners'. In between is an enormous range from those that look like a metal broomstick with a shoe or (slightly more odd ) bare foot on the end to those that woudldn't look out of place on the set of the next Terminator movie - all hydraulics and shiny steel. The people who use them almost without exception walk so fluidly that the limb looks every much a part of them as their own skin and bone. I know that is true from conversation, but its another thing to be able to sense, feel and see that for yourself.