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Loss-of-limb ritual helps bring a different type of healing at rehab center

Northwestern Medicine’s Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, Illinois, offers a ceremony called the Ritual for Loss of the Limb.

At rehab center, a loss-of-limb ritual helps bring a different type of healing

David Gaydos thought he had already learned a lot about loss. The retired Naperville Central High School teacher had been through much grief: the loss of his parents, multiple miscarriages with his wife, Frances, and her death in 2019 of ovarian cancer after 53 years of marriage. But this spring, Gaydos lost the lower half of his left leg and left foot. And he said it taught him more than he .

At Marianjoy rehab center, a loss-of-limb ritual helps bring a different type of healing

David Gaydos thought he had already learned a lot about loss. The retired Naperville Central High School teacher had been through much grief: the loss of his parents, multiple miscarriages with his wife, Frances, and her death in 2019 of ovarian cancer after 53 years of marriage. But this spring, Gaydos lost the lower half of his left leg and left foot. And he said it taught him more than he .

Marianjoy ritual helps patients heal from the loss of a limb