{"id":901,"date":"2017-08-01T15:17:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/?p=901"},"modified":"2017-08-01T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T19:17:39","slug":"regina-woman-shocked-to-discover-lack-of-colour-options-for-prostheses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Regina woman shocked to discover lack of colour options for prostheses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-902\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rahab-wanjau-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rahab-wanjau-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rahab-wanjau.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rahab Wanjau, 30, had part of her left leg amputated last June after five other surgeries. (Submitted by Rahab Wanjau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the CBC news article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On top of the loss of her lower leg to an amputation, a Regina woman is facing the additional struggle of being unable to get a prosthesis that matches her skin tone.<\/p>\n<p>Rahab Wanjau, 30, had surgery last June to have the part of her leg below her knee removed.<\/p>\n<p>Wanjau said she did research on the upcoming amputation, but had no idea she would feel so excluded when she went to pick out a prosthetic leg and foot at Regina&#8217;s Wascana Rehabilitation Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who is originally from Kenya, was given only two colour options to pick from: &#8220;one very light and one very dark,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The experience has been a step back in terms of making her feeling included in Regina, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of the colours are my complexion and I was actually very surprised.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatchewan\/regina-woman-shocked-to-discover-lack-of-colour-options-for-prostheses-1.4229804\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatchewan\/regina-woman-shocked-to-discover-lack-of-colour-options-for-prostheses-1.4229804<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the CBC news article: On top of the loss of her lower leg to an amputation, a Regina woman is facing the additional struggle of being unable to get a prosthesis that matches her skin tone. Rahab Wanjau, 30, had surgery last June to have the part of her leg below her knee removed. Wanjau said she did research &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,91,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}