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Jana Remy

  • Writing
    • Disability
    • Making History
    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
    • Social Media
      • Mentions/Links
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October 14, 2006

amputee

why does god hate amputees?

Hmmm….as an amputee, I found this site rather provocative. I’ve long thought about the dilemma that once my leg was taken, no amount of prayer would ever bring it back, would ever heal me. I realized that I’d never heard of someone miraculously being healed from amputation. Never.

Unlike with my father’s cancer, where we felt that an exercise of faith could bring healing, there was never a mention of praying back my leg once it was cut off. Of course, many people prayed that my bone cancer (the reason for the amputation of my leg) would not spread. And it didn’t. And many people prayed that I would learn to walk skillfully with a prosthetic limb, and this has more or less happened, too.

I think there is a part of me that has always resented God for not healing me from cancer before my leg had to be amputated. After it was taken, there was little I could do except reconcile the amputation into my Mormon worldview. To understand why God wanted me to be one-legged. Even after years of pondering and praying on this subject, it’s not an easy thing for me to understand or to accept.

[Note added 10/17/06: I realize that the website I mention above is not really making a statement about amputees, but rather is trying show the fallibility and/or nonexistence of God. I take issue with the author of this website and they way that s/he casually uses the amputee body for his/her purposes and the way that this erases the agency of the amputee, casting him/her in a subject(ive) position. S/he could have used any number of other examples (e.g. why does God hate white people, because as much as they pray they can’t turn their skin green?; or why does God hate 23 year-olds because no matter how hard they pray, the can’t be 21 again?; and so forth. Though of course my examples sound ridiculous, they illustrate the way the ‘logical’ point the website makes about amputees is only logical because of the way our society devalues disability).]

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make me smile

Make me smile…

–returning my way-overdue-and-already-billed library books and finding Ned behind the counter. a nice chat, with a good book recommendation and the promise of yet another pumpkin slaughter party at Karen’s lovely condo.
–the first rainshower of fall this afternoon. rolling down the car windows, not minding as the drops fell on my arm.
–A family member (who shall not be named) calling to tell me that she enjoyed reading a post on my blog
–listening to John tell the highlights of his “Jesus Camp” viewing
–munching on a few ‘figments,’ courtesy of Dora-chan. Bitter black chocolate coating on ripe mission figs. yah.
–an email message from my little bro. letting us know that the ultrasound went well and boy #2 will soon join their family.
–it’s 9:30pm on Friday the 13th. and all is well…
:)

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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