I’m going to run the risk of offending the families of amputees here, but I’ve just got to ask the question: What the heck is the point of National Limb Loss Awareness Month?
Really, aren’t the people who have lost their limbs plenty aware that they’ve lost their limbs? Do they need to be reminded where that arm of theirs went to?
Is there any benefit to providing awareness of the potential of limb loss to the rest of us? Need we warn, “That leg of yours could fall off any minute now,” or “Hey kids, put that guillotine away before somebody’s body part gets chopped off”?
Is it, perhaps, that the purpose of National Limb Loss Awareness Month is to bring awareness to people in Congress to provide money to medical organizations that deal with limb loss? If so, then they ought to just be honest and call it National Limb Loss Lobbying Month.
Of course, what Congress ought to do and what Congress actually does rarely meet. So, Congressman John Duncan introduced H. Res. 1056, a resolution expressing support for designation of April as National Limb Loss Awareness Month, into the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday. What if this legislative passed? What would you do to observe this month? How would you become aware of lost limbs?
