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 h...