Helping amputees and phantom limb pain

ME AND MY MIRROR

Treating phantom limb pain with free mirrors and mirror therapy ...globally.

Outreach

INCOMING STEVO!

By on Oct 23, 2013 in Outreach

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share it I’m re-activating everything, man. Those who know me or have followed the blog even a little will know that I spent a handful of months in Cambodia on my mission last year. Well, Mission Unaccomplished! I’m going back February 12th. So I got through to hundreds of people, well, there are well-over 100,000 amputees in SE Asia alone. I ain’t even started yet. There’s trauma too, and lots of it; it’s palpable, and I’m going to shake that up a bit as well. Many of the oldsters in Cambodia and, I beg to say, many of their relatives and many, too, of their descendants are what the Khmer Rouge themselves charmingly called ‘The Persons Left Over From Death’ … well I maintain that they are, in fact, ‘Persons Ignitable By Life’! And I aim to go in there, with a dry clear eye (this time) and kick a little ass. Because, if I learned anything on my last (extended) visit, it is that these people don’t need or want compassion, in a way compassion has been killing them for decades. They need a cuff upside the head, a kick in the pants: just the way you and I do when we lose the plot. We all need to take our well-being into our own hands, fend for ourselves and derive pride from what we do every day. Your up-country Cambodian amputee fisherman is no different, nor, for that matter, is your Afghan, your Somali, your Sri Lankan or you Serbo-Croat – no matter how many limbs he’s got and no matter how much free shit is being thrown at him. So just ‘Say No’ to hand-outs and say ‘Hell Yes!’ to a firm hand-shake, a long look in the eyes and a giant gift to improve your life with exactly one itty-bitty string attached. That string, I’ll tell each amputee, is ‘YOU. You gotta do the work. It’s the ONLY WAY’. That’s a signal change in my approach for this venture and success is already singing in my chest. So how could you resist me? Here I come to you, on my own steam, on a bicycle. I’ve...

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S.E. Asia Article

By on Jul 30, 2013 in General, Outreach

If you enjoyed the read, please feel free to share itA great article on Me And My Mirror in this month’s ‘S E Asia Globe’, Asia’s glossiest and most informative monthly. Check it out! (  or you can Download the entire article...

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