Life is Greater Than Limb: My Journey to Becoming Whole

Just before Christmas in 2012 at age fifty-three John LeMieux lost his left leg to a recurrence of sarcoma. The unique twenty-hour rotationplasty surgery-never done on a man his age-was followed by six months of bed rest. It was only the beginning of years of physical spiritual and emotional growth. In this memoir John recounts the lows and highs of a life forever altered.As an aging ex-college athlete John was forced to confront a life where every expectation was changed. With the help of his family and friends he discovered that he was stronger than he knew as he grappled with the physical loss of his leg the crippling anxiety that attacked him his relationships with others and his place in the world.