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Can you feel your legs?

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Written by Sean on Wednesday, November 5, 1997

No. I cannot feel touch, hot or cold or pain below level of the injury except in my own case where having an incomplete lesion means I have small patches of disrupted sensation on the fronts of my thighs.

I have no awareness of where my body below the injury is in space, I cannot tell without looking if my legs are straight or bent or if my foot has come off the footrest.

 

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Sean is transabled. His body image is that of an L2 paraplegic. He has been living pretty much 100% of his public life from a wheelchair for the last decade, but hasn't found peace of mind (and is unlikely to until he does become a para).