Blossom, Bilateral Amputee Dog, Takes Her New Legs for a Test Drive!, 8/8/2013

Meet Blossom, our first canine amputee patient!   Blossom lost her hind feet soon after birth. In May of this year she was relinquished to the SPCA and then adopted Rodney Purvis (an SPCA employee) as her new dad. Since then, Rodney, with the full support of the SPCA, has been on quest to get Blossom back on all four paws. Stan Patterson, CP and Steve Bremer, CO met with Blossom

POA’s Celeste Corcoran Is Taking her Life Back…One Step at a Time! Boston Strong!! 8/4/2013

We are so proud of Celeste Corcoran and all the great progress she made in just two weeks!   Friday, her last day at POA, was also a day of empowerment.  Stan Patterson had the honor of being her first haircut client in our makeshift salon. 🙂  After that, Stan taught Celeste to how drive a car with her prosthetic legs using the X3 microprocessor leg in ‘drive’ mode for the

Trident Dive Trip Now Underway, 7/18/2013

POA is a proud sponsor of the Trident Dive Club. The 2013 Dive Trip is underway! Links to follow on social media, blogs, etc., on their website.  Click here -> Trident Dive Club The Trident Dive Club provides wellness scuba diving opportunities to the surviving families of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps special operations personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty.