VIDEO: WHAT LEGACY WILL YOU LEAVE BEHIND? | LAUREN WASSER | TEDxLausanneWomen * 2023
VIDEO: WHAT LEGACY WILL YOU LEAVE BEHIND? | LAUREN WASSER | TEDxLausanneWomen * 2023
Lauren Wasser in Summersalt
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Lauren Wasser, lost her legs to toxic shock syndrome

Brought up in LA, the athletic daughter of two former models, Wasser turned down a basketball scholarship to embark on her own career in fashion. “Growing up, [my body] was something that I thought was untouchable,” she muses. After her amputation, Wasser describes how she had to rebuild herself “from the inside out and really see what life was about – that it was about so much more than just the physical form”.

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Cacsmy Brutus known as Mama Cax was a Haitian American model and disability rights activist
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Mama Cax, all about her amputation

Mama Cax, an advocate of people with disabilities and a rising model who helped disrupt the fashion industry’s standard of beauty by not shying away from displaying her prosthetic leg on the runway and in fashion campaigns, died on Dec. 16 at Royal London Hospital. She was 30.

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Amputations in diabetic patient

By way of reflection, it should be considered, before performing an amputation, that each surgical procedure is an added risk that we should avoid. On the other hand, as a general rule, the one that occupies the least possible time of the life that the patient has left doing medical treatments should be generated.

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