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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		Amputees Find Support And Humor At Weekly Gatherings
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:10:19
	Publish Date:		2018-06-16 12:00:00
	Description:		The day that changed Michael Freeman’s life came about 22 years ago. “I was crushed by an eight-ton truck in a loading dock across the pelvis. They took me out to Madigan and did emergency surgery,” Freeman said. In the course of his treatment he was given a common blood-thinning medication, to which he turned out to be severely allergic. The complications would eventually cost him one of his legs. He was sent to Harborview in Seattle for two months to recover. “And I met this miracle person here at Harborview. This person came in, and handed me a bunch of literature and said, this is what your life’s gonna be like, this is what you need to be doing, exercises you need to be doing,” Freeman said through tears to a group of fellow amputees. “And I looked at her and said, what gives you the right to tell me what my life’s going to be like? And she reached down, took her leg off, and said, ‘I am one.’ And it was Dee over here,” he said. “Dee” is Dee Malchow, a retired nurse and the
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