OneLeggedDanger

I'm sure some do, but I don't take offense to really anything said about my situation. You see, I'm over 6 feet tall even though I'm short one foot

Don't feel bad about your problems, everyone has to deal with them. Don't be ashamed of your own, because we all have them.

I was waiting for someone to ask that, and you did. The prosthesis attaches using suction. When I'm putting it on, I put on a black sock with a rubber seal on the outside of my stump, and I put hand sanitizer or some other liquid with a high alcohol content. I use a liquid so that my stump can slide easily into my socket, and it needs to have a high alcohol content so it evaporates quickly, preventing my stump from sliding right back out. To take off the prosthesis, I press a little white button on the socket to let air back in, and I just slide it off.

I actually didn't feel too worried about that. I was never really scared about having the surgeries, just normally nervous and anxious. It was a bit odd knowing that I would be losing a part of myself, but it made me feel better that I was going to have another leg and a chance to reinvent myself. I had spent years with scars and surgeries, and I was ready for it to be over.

That is true. When I first woke up from the anesthetics, I thought that my leg was still there because it felt like it was. I looked down to see it, but there was an absence under the blanket where my leg should have been. Now, it feels like it's there, but only faintly. I get phantom pains, and those are typically in my foot, and I can tell where my leg should be. I always have the sense that it's like a ghost and I can just feel it.