Mary Roach

You're not going to put that foot back on.

And she had spent a long time trying to find somebody who would agree to take it off.

And I thought that was really interesting that we don't have the power over our own bodies in that way.

You know, it also has to do with that bias for wholeness, this sense that

you're just better off with all your parts, especially if we, on the outside of all this, if we see you, we want you to look whole, that kind of thing.

And it's absurd.

You know, she's much better off.

And there's a lot of people who have like foot drop or things that cause them to kind of shuffle.

They can get around, but they can't run.

They can't hike.

They can't do things that they want to do.

And particularly with a below the knee amputation, the things that you can do, you could get all these different attachments for different sports.

You know, you can

Pretty much do whatever you want to do.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, think back to the artificial limbs from the earlier...

half of the 1900s that just, well, even probably into the 60s and 70s, those flesh tone, stiff kind of mannequin parts that people were using.

You know, the whole idea was to pass, you know, that somebody couldn't tell.

And now people go around wearing shorts with a blade, you know, just a tech thing that works.

The functionality is what matters.