Gorham's Elisha Morgan suffers from chronic pain as a result of a rare limb disorder.
John and Elisha Morgan at Sebago Lake in 2003.
Elisha Morgan hiking Tumbledown Mountain in 2002.
The Morgan family – from left, John, Eleanor, Ashley and Elisha – relax at their Gorham home. “As a parent, you’re supposed to be bringing everyone forward,” says Elisha Morgan, and because of her chronic pain, “I was always the one holding everyone back.”.
Elisha Morgan sits with her daughter Ashley at home in June, about 12 weeks after she had her left foot amputated. For a few days after Morgan returned home, the sight of her missing foot frightened her children, but soon they were back to demanding her attention.
Morgan makes her way around to the drivers seat after loading her wheelchair into her car.
Three-year-old Ashley helps her mother, Elisha Morgan, load crutches and a wheelchair into Morgan’s car in June. After her surgery, Morgan also got help from her co-workers at Idexx Laboratories and her husband’s colleagues at Westbrook High School, especially with meals.
Morgan, who has suffered for years with chronic pain, uses a wheelchair to move around her home.
Elisha Morgan, at home in Gorham, suffered for years with chronic pain before seeking out a surgeon to amputate her foot, giving her a new lease on life. She has experienced no phantom pain from the missing limb.
Ashley holds her mother's legs while the family plays outside their Gorham home.
Morgan drives herself to AtlanticProCare to be fitted for a prosthesis.
Cunningham a prosthetist with AtlanticProCare looks over Elisha Morgan's leg as she is being fit for a prosthetic.
Jerald Cunningham a prosthetist with AtlanticProCare fits Morgan for a prosthetic at AtlanticProCare in Portland.
Morgan is overcome with emotion after being fitted with a prosthetic.
Eleanor and Ashley look at their mother's new prosthetic during a session at New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Portland.
Cunningham watches as Morgan takes her first steps with a new prosthetic.
Morgan takes her first steps with a new prosthetic at AtlanticProCare as Cunningham a prosthetist look.
Five months after choosing to amputate her foot, Morgan lifts her daughter Eleanor with her husband, John, as Ashley looks on during a family walk.
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