A woman whose new prosthetic leg was swept out to sea is “over the moon” after she found it 10 months later, it having been swept right back to the beach where she lost it.
Last April, 69-year-old Brenda Ogden lost her custom-made titanium blade-style prosthesis moments before a swim in the North Sea.
She was posing for a picture with a swimming group she was a part of when a huge wave knocked them all down and took her titanium blade back out to sea with it.
Ogden had her leg amputated below the knee five years earlier following a horrific car crash. The now-retired nurse revealed she waited for over a year to get the false leg, and had only had the blade for a week before the disaster on the beach.
“The leg was specially made to allow me to access water easily,” Ogden told England’s Southwest News Service. “I had never swum in the sea before that day and it was on my bucket list to do so.”
The prosthesis had cost her over $2,000, and her swimming group rallied around their member to look for it. Yet a search on the sand that lasted the whole day yielded nothing, and Ogden returned home distraught.
She had been an avid runner, and began to warm to the idea of swimming as a way of restarting physical activity following the crash. “I depended on the leg to be able to do water sports,” she said, adding that she “packed in” the idea after the loss.
10 months later, 38-year-old Elizabeth Forbes was walking along a beach in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, looking for fossils. Something caught her eye; not a fossil, but maybe a gas cylinder, she thought.
“I saw an unusual looking strange shape from the corner of my eye when I was walking,” Forbes said. “I was curious about what it was so I walked over and there it was trapped on top of some fallen rocks.”
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She then posted a picture of her strange find on a Facebook group called Holderness Coast Fossils, where it was identified as Brenda’s. Forbes originally left the leg where she found it, but returned around noon the next day hoping to deliver it back to Brenda at some point in the near future.
“I have a feeling Brenda thought she might never see the leg again, so I was chuffed to have found it for her and to deliver it back,” she said.
Ogden described herself as being “over the moon” after hearing it was found.
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“I have spent the last couple of months mourning the loss as I had literally lost a part of me,” she described. “I had come to terms that I might never see it again, but the fact that it has been found is just brilliant. Thank god for Lizzie.”
“I’m glad I will be able to give swimming another go now.”
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