r/BeAmazed • u/Sirsilentbob423 • Nov 14 '24

Science Her first time walking outside in nearly two years with her new prosthetic legs.

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u/BornWandering Nov 14 '24

Her name is Emma. She is amazing.

She has ehlers-danlos syndrome.

Here is her story.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1JlDwoZYV/

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u/blastradii Nov 14 '24

After reading her story I can’t help but think of the House meme: “it’s not lupus”. Given the irony that she was told she had lupus.

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u/LordBiscuits Nov 14 '24

Still remember that episode where House was honest to God excited to finally have a case of lupus 😂

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u/HypocriticalHoney Nov 14 '24

EDS fucking sucks. I am all too familiar. Nice to see someone powering through it with a smile.

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u/dancingpianofairy Nov 14 '24

This needs to be higher. She deserves the karma and attention, not OP who doesn't know shit.

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u/Individual_Oil9543 Nov 14 '24

Hope they were cheap? Otherwise she’s crippled with debt

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u/gerwen Nov 14 '24

crippled with debt

/sideye

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u/Individual_Oil9543 Nov 14 '24

Glad you walked right into that one

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

Like Emma and the doorframe going back inside

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u/dancingpianofairy Nov 14 '24

Her Instagram mentioned England so I assume she's in the UK where (to my knowledge, anyway. idk, I'm in the US) medical expenses don't lead to crippling debt.

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u/HippoPrimary5331 Nov 14 '24

Correct. I feel for you guys over the pond, especially now. Much love

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u/alanalan426 Nov 14 '24

I'm sure she gets plenty attention already

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u/raymondcy Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 14 '24

Just an FYI, There appears to be something significantly wrong with that Instagram account if you go directly to it and may possibly be unsafe. I don't know if you know her personally but you should probably let her know. I have no Instagram account myself.

My mistake. Move along.

From the Browser Console:

Stop! neg6V1FU4PW.js:236 This is a browser feature intended for developers. If someone told you to copy-paste something here to enable an Instagram feature or "hack" someone's account, it is a scam and will give them access to your Instagram account. neg6V1FU4PW.js:236 See https://www.facebook.com/selfxss for more information.

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u/DreamPhreak Nov 14 '24

That's normal. That warning that appears on every facebook/instagram/threads page to remind people not to copy/paste 3rd party scripts into the console.

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u/raymondcy Nov 14 '24

Oh, interesting. I read that wrong. Thanks for the correction. I think they could have worded that a bit better. My developer mind went to the fact that someone may have added something to the code to produce that warning.

Didn't help the page wasn't working when I loaded it (which is why I went to the console in the first place). Adding to the confusion.