TWO years ago he had his leg amputated – now he plays tennis for Britain and will carry the Olympic torch next year. Edward Holt, 19, of Waltham, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma – a rare cancerous tumour that affects teenagers. He spent a full year in hospital having chemotherapy and on New Year’s Eve, 2010, [...]
Different in her own way, Jessica may be small but she is a huge inspiration… **************************************************** SCHOOLGIRL Jessica Rogers is determined to swim in the Paralympics – despite being approximately 2ft tall. The determined 14-year-old was born with a rare condition that left her with no lower spine and meant her legs had to be [...]
This past Saturday, Montclair State University musical theatre major Evan Ruggiero posted a video on YouTube of himself tap dancing. By Tuesday night, almost 6,000 people had viewed it. No wonder. Ruggiero, a 21-year-old bone cancer survivor who had his leg amputated last year, had taped himself tap dancing with his one remaining leg — [...]
Published November 07, 2011 – FoxNews.com A woman who had one of her 70-pound legs amputated claims the stump is growing, the Daily Mail reported. Mandy Sellars, 36, is suspected to suffer from a rare condition called Proteus syndrome, which caused her to be born with abnormally large legs and feet. Proteus syndrome is a [...]
From: The Mirror (25/08/2011) Remarkable Mandy Sellars remains upbeat despite having one of her legs amputated – because it kept on growing. She suffers from a condition similar to Proteus Syndrome, which was the same illness that affected Elephant Man Joseph Merrick. It means all of her fat is stored below her waist and in [...]
TAMPA – Moffitt Cancer Center surgeon Doug Letson has an enemy. It’s the number 448. That’s how many American children learn they have bone cancer each year, then face painful treatments, the risk of limb amputation and possible death. It doesn’t matter that those children account for just 4 percent of the 11,210 annual pediatric [...]
Bader Remembered 70 Years on – Tangmere Museum Tangmere Museum is holding an event on Sunday 7th August to honour the memory of Sir Douglas Bader. There is a lot going on and it promises to be an enjoyable as well as an educational day. From the Tangmere Museum Website: “The theme of the Museum’s main [...]
By: Julia McWatt, South Wales Echo Jul 27 2011 At the age of 16 Andrea Evans caught meningitis, which resulted in kidney failure and the amputation of both her legs. Julia McWatt hears her story of survival and how she’s now helping a New Zealand earthquake survivor WHEN Andrea Evans became severely unwell as a [...]
By: Daily Mail Reporter A teenage ballerina chose to have her leg AMPUTATED after a huge benign tumour left her with an ‘elephant foot’ and unable to dance. Chanel Carter, 15, was left devastated when she developed a rare bone condition that left her with a tumour on her right leg – crushing her dreams [...]
CHICAGO (WZZM) – Her inspirational story made international headlines three months ago. Her dream, her decision, her faith and – now – her recovery. At the age of 12, Alyssia Crook made the decision to amputate her left leg because she wanted to be free from life-long pain. In May, the Hudsonville girl’s leg was removed. The two months [...]
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Last updated at 7:31 AM on 27th July 2011 A bus driver who had to have his leg amputated was told by his insurers they would only pay out if he lost both legs. Martin Wells spent more than £4,500 on critical illness cover with Scottish Widows over the past 12 years [...]
Bader Remembered 70 Years on – Tangmere Museum Tangmere Museum is holding an event on Sunday 7th August to honour the memory of Sir Douglas Bader. There is a lot going on and it promises to be an enjoyable as well as an educational day. From the Tangmere Museum Website: “The theme of the Museum’s [...]
Xiang Weiyi was travelling with her parents on Saturday when their train suddenly stopped and was ploughed into by an oncoming high-speed service that pushed four carriages off a viaduct, the China Daily reported. The toddler, who was in the last carriage of the train, was only discovered on Sunday afternoon as workers picked through [...]
From: The Telegraph South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius qualified for next month’s world championships by smashing his 400 metres personal best by half a second in Lignano, Italy on Tuesday. Pistorius, known as the ‘Blade Runner’ because he runs with carbon fibre prosthetic running blades, clocked 45.07 seconds to record a time inside both [...]
July 20, 2011 9:09 PM Katie Tammen Daily News VALPARAISO — Ben Baltz is about to reach yet another milestone in his young life. He’s going to summer camp in Ohio. The camp will not only give the 9-year-old plenty of opportunity to swim and canoe, but also test his sense of adventure with zip [...]
Pete and Maria Castelli stood to the side, tears streaming down their faces as their daughter, Denise, sprinted up and down an indoor turf field at New York’s Chelsea Piers. It took one clinic for Castelli to run again. One session, after needing two months to learn to walk again. One session, after a year [...]
By: Justin Rust, The Daily Republic Hunter Bork did not just win the high jump title at the Paralympic Games on June 16-19 in Miramar, Fla., he also set an American record in the event. On Monday morning in a text from Dakota Wesleyan track and field coach Pat Belling, Bork found out his winning mark [...]
Tangmere Museum is holding an event on Sunday 7th August to honour the memory of Sir Douglas Bader. There is a lot going on and it promises to be an enjoyable as well as an educational day. From the Tangmere Museum Website: “The theme of the Museum’s main summer event this year is ‘BADER REMEMBERED 70 [...]
Toby Harnden Spare a thought this evening for Guardsman Joe Penlington, 20, from Mold in North Wales. Nearly two years after an Improvised Explosive Device ripped through his Viking in Helmand, the soldier had an initial procedure to have his left leg amputated earlier today. The second, main procedure will take place tomorrow (Wednesday). Joe, who features in [...]
COURAGEOUS mum-of-six Jennifer Clark told today how she faces learning to walk for the third time after an operation to remove her legs. The 41-year-old, from Hollycarrside, first had to have her deformed feet amputated to overcome a deteriorating condition. But after buying her first pair of shoes and learning to walk all over again, [...]
An amputee who was encouraged by a Paralympic star to fulfil her dreams of running again finally got to meet her hero. Danielle Bradshaw, 12, who had her damaged leg amputated last year set her sights on competing at the Rio Games in 2016 after hearing about Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius. The schoolgirl met the [...]
As British Paralympic stars compete in the World Cup, one basketball player, who is an amputee, tells Channel 4 News why life is “easier” for him than soldiers who have lost their legs in war zones. More than 240 athletes from 34 countries are competing in this week’s BT Paralympic World Cup, including “blade-runner” Oscar [...]
It didn’t take long for Alyssia Crook to return to the basketball court after having a portion of her left leg amputated last Thursday. Less than 48 hours after her surgery, Alyssia found her way to the gymnasium within Chicago’s Shriners Children’s hospital so she could shoot some hoops. This video was provided to WZZM [...]
Lions and tigers aren’t usually the sort of animals you’d want to get close to, but that’s exactly what double amputee John Reinke likes to do. In fact, he’s discovered an incredible ability to get so close to such animals that he can cuddle them. He only released his sensitive skill after a bungee jump [...]
CHICAGO — Alyssia Crook emerged from successful surgery here Thursday to amputate her left leg, an operation that revealed “fascinating anatomy” and will allow her to face a life finally free of the pain and suffering that has plagued her all of her 13 years. Showing bravado beyond her age, the little basketball player whose [...]
Faith has come home……. Readers have become avid followers of Faith and have taken her in to their hearts as we have charted her progress in recent months, both the ups and downs, and on Friday Sue and Rod Weeding were on hand at the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre to welcome her home. Faith [...]
By Kevin McCallum 12:08PM BST 22 May 2011 Oscar Pistorius opens the sliding doors of a room in his house in the east of Pretoria, whistles and all hell breaks loose. Pistorius has shown that while two legs may be good, no legs are better for him. Yet in his house, four legs rule the [...]
Gareth A Davies reveals how a train accident helped to turn Nathan Stephens into an international athlete Barrie and Helen Stephens always look skywards and thank the Lord, come April 11 every year. It happens to be the birthday of their son, Nathan Stephens, a 23-year-old with the potential to become a superstar at the [...]
Life as a teenager is about feeling free to be competitive, exuberant, and happy. It’s no different for Alyssia Crook — despite some not so obvious limitations. Alyssia’s parents, Chad and Karen, are missionaries. But it was on a personal mission trip to the Ukraine in 2003 that they found the special girl who would [...]
The BT Paralympic World Cup begins in Manchester on Monday with 300 dedicated athletes from 31 countries competing in the largest annual international multi-sport competition in elite disability sport. Most of those athletes have an inspiring and uplifting story to tell. Here Sportsmail catches up with six of them before the action kicks off… LOUISE [...]
HUDSONVILLE — Artist Angie Briggs Johnson pressed 13-year-old Alyssia Crook’s skinny left leg, drenched in orange and yellow paint, against a canvas that Alyssia had spent a morning painting. Alyssia’s left foot was covered in blue paint, as the two sat on a vibrantly stained tarp amid brushes and paint on Johnson’s kitchen floor. Alyssia [...]
A TATTOOED thug who kicked a puppy so hard that its leg had to be amputated was given a conditional discharge by a court this week. But Whitley man Martin Bates, who appeared in court via video link from Reading Young Offenders Institution, where he is already serving a 10-week sentence for other offences, was [...]
The leg of a Civil War Army general, amputated 148 years ago at Gettysburg, is now on display at Fort Detrick. Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles’ leg is one of the most famous items at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, which had been housed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The museum is moving [...]
Author: Alan • Monday, May 16th, 2011 An engineer from Bolton had to have his left arm amputated, after it was dragged into the rollers of a conveyor belt, at a Curry’s outlet in Lancashire. The Manchester Evening News is reporting that, thirty four year old Paul McNulty from Sharples, in Bolton, who was employed [...]
Standing on your own feet One week away from losing his leg to cancer, 6-year-old Tom became the youngest patient to have pioneering bone replacement surgery. In total, he has undergone 48 operations – and defied doctors’ predictions that he would never be a dad. Tom McKenzie is every inch the successful man. A happily [...]
CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan — Flags for the international fighting force were flying at half-staff outside the military trauma hospital the morning of our visit, in remembrance of the latest troops killed in the war. Some die here on the operating tables, despite the best efforts of British and American surgeons. Others succumb to their injuries [...]
Vavra ran on enthusiasm By Susan Szalewski WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER Leonard Vavra was known as “Crazy Leonard.” Not just because he started his running hobby in his late 40s, back in the days when nobody went out and just ran. Not just because he continued running as an old man, no matter what — even [...]
By Tiffeny Owens A 22-year-old Mount Hope man is recovering in a Birmingham hospital after an EF5 tornado took the life of his little brother, and on Friday, claimed his left leg. The family of Justin Adams — a husband, father and son — has kept vigil at his side since he was dragged out [...]
Sean Ahmadi holds the front tire of a red bicycle steady between his knees. “Hop on,” he tells Jamie Schanbaum. The 22-year-old college student swings a leg over the bike, sliding first one, then the other prosthetic foot into plastic cages that hold her feet on the pedals. As the tires start rolling, Ahmadi runs [...]
By: Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY McLOUTH, Kan. — Amid the crash of pads and grunts of effort three Friday nights ago, several of McLouth High’s football players heard a telltale pop. Trevor Roberts did not. Nor did the senior receiver feel any immediate pain, he says, when his awkwardly planted left leg gave way, two [...]
A case of negligence has been filed against the operating surgeon and a second doctor for causing bodily harm to a patient. The trial is slated to start in the month of November. On June 16, a woman had gone to a hospital in the Tyrolean town of Sankt Johann for a leg amputation. After [...]
Published: Sunday, October 10, 2010, 7:00 AM Updated: Monday, October 11, 2010, 10:51 AM Debbie S. Myers | Jackson Citizen Patriot He does with one hand what some with two hands never try. Albion resident Steven Stark lost his right hand four years ago but said he found a new purpose through creating jewelry. [...]
A tale of hope emerges from the devastation as a Paralympian finds inspiration from volleyball – and flies high as she contemplates the 2012 Games. Alan Hubbard meets Martine Wright Sunday, 10 October 2010 Fifty-two people died in the terrorist atrocities in London on the morning of 7 July 2005, eight on the Circle Line [...]
By CRYSTAL CHAN IT’S A typical evening and the family of four sit at their table, having dinner. Three have cutlery in their hands. Only one, in a wheelchair, eats with cutlery stuck to her magnetic hand gloves. Such moments remind Madam Teo Siew Kim, 60, of what she has lost – both her hands [...]
Uncle of meningitis amputee toddler stole £315,000 from her trust fund to pay for holidays… leaving just £239 By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:34 PM on 26th November 2009 Ellie Challis lost her arms and legs after contracting meningitis aged just 16 months. The uncle of a little girl who lost her arms [...]
NEW DELHI: A glass piece inside one eye, more than 50% burn injuries that had got infected, multiple fractures, and a foot which had been completely destroyed. Twenty-six-year-old Mohammad Mussa an Afghanistan national employed with the Indian embassy in Kabul was flown to India in this condition three weeks back. He was a victim of [...]
André Picard (From Monday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 03:09AM EDT) Imagine for a moment that you have a cancerous tumour eating away at the bone and muscle in your leg. You can choose to amputate the leg or undergo surgery that removes the cancer and leaves the limb intact. [...]
By Michael Hoffman – Staff writer Posted : Monday Jul 27, 2009 15:40:44 EDT Airman 1st Class Colton Read looked up from his hospital bed into the face of his wife. A tube down his throat kept him from talking. Fighting back tears, Jessica Read told her 20-year-old husband that doctors had amputated his right [...]
by CRAIG ROBINSON Last updated: 30/06/2009 06:00:00 A WOMAN who lost her leg in what should have been a routine knee operation has won more than £1million in compensation. Karen Flory has been left significantly disabled and continues to experience pain in the affected leg as well as phantom limb pains. Ipswich Hospital admitted responsibility [...]
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THE BADER CUP was started in 1987, and is now widely recognised as the largest National Mixed Greensome Stableford Golf Tournament in Europe.
John Southwick founded the Tournament to raise funds for The Douglas Bader Foundation. He still organises the competition.
Please see the Bader Golf Page and the nested Bader Cup pages on the left hand menu bar.For more information, a brochure or to enter and help to raise money for a good cause, please visit John Southwick's dedicated Website:
www.thebadercup.co.uk
Art to Fly, a specialist aviation artwork Website, was created by Pat Barnard, long-time friend of Sir Douglas, as a way of supporting the Douglas Bader Foundation disabled children’s Flying Days.
You can find out more about Art to Fly and the aviation paintings and drawings, aircraft prints and books – all signed by famous WW11 pilots and carefully selected and attractively priced for aviation art collectors - by visiting the Website:
www.arttofly.orgAs Art To Fly is a non-profit organization, 100% of the profits of any sales go to help disabled children experience the joy of flight through the Douglas Bader Foundation’s “Bader Braves” Flying Days programme, details of which can be found on this Website.
