Jim Meehan is a retired Positive British Chartered Psychologist, Author and Poet. His fifty-year career was spread equally working in the United Kingdom in the Human Resources department of the Rover Car Manufacturing Company and in the United States working for Talent Plus an International Human Resources Consultancy, headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. Although he was diagnosed as suffering from Type II diabetes in 1996 at the age of fifty-three he maintained a very active lifestyle. He was a keen mountain walker, an enthusiastic cyclist who rode 105 miles through Death Valley, California at the age of sixty-two and for his seventieth birthday ran the Chicago marathon. However, his health took a turn for the worse when due to the complications of Type II diabetes, poor blood circulation and sepsis his left leg was amputated below the knee in March 2022 and his right leg was amputated below the knee in April 2023. During his recovery he decided to publish this book about his health and fitness story, prior to and following his amputations in order to help others, both amputees and full-bodied adults alike, to benefit from his experience and coping strategies and enable them, to some extent, live a fuller, happier and healthier life.