Jun 23, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
**You won’t wake up complaining about the silly things in life, after listening to my next guest** **Wow what a journey Jason Parker has had** **From a gifted athlete to a double amputee, life has…
So if anybody wants to have a look at that story, it was really quite fascinating.
Yeah, you
yeah now okay so now you're um you weren't you had the the you had the artificial legs for a while but now you're on in a wheelchair is that correct
the thing about it
don't want to get
into too much detail but you know living in prosthetics is a very difficult thing to do because it's
shocking well
you know it's like putting your foot into a plastic bucket every day and lip walking around in it there's it's no different from what pirates used to do you know the essential factor is you stick in your leg it could be carbon fiber because it's lighter but it's still a hard plastic shell that essentially lives you and then it's, it's your body.
And because you, you walk as a double amputee and it certainly didn't affect me like it did with one leg.
When you walk like that, you have to walk in a different way because you've got no ankles or calves or anything like
that.
So
you walk in your hips and that puts a lot of strain on your lower back and, and you know, your, sciatic nerve and all that sort of stuff.
I've just reached a point where to make the next stage of my life more comfortable and I can do it independently with mobility is to make the decision to move to a wheelchair before that decision gets taken from me, if you know what I mean.
But, yeah, you know, the support to do that is very difficult at the moment, especially in light of the most recent NDIS changes.
But, yeah, I'm sure you probably want to know a little bit more about that, Jodie.
The bad stuff.
That's exactly right.
And you don't kind of hear the stories about people like you that really, really need the NDIS.
So if anybody wants to have a look at that story, it was really quite fascinating.
Yeah, you
yeah now okay so now you're um you weren't you had the the you had the artificial legs for a while but now you're on in a wheelchair is that correct
the thing about it
don't want to get
into too much detail but you know living in prosthetics is a very difficult thing to do because it's
shocking well
you know it's like putting your foot into a plastic bucket every day and lip walking around in it there's it's no different from what pirates used to do you know the essential factor is you stick in your leg it could be carbon fiber because it's lighter but it's still a hard plastic shell that essentially lives you and then it's, it's your body.
And because you, you walk as a double amputee and it certainly didn't affect me like it did with one leg.
When you walk like that, you have to walk in a different way because you've got no ankles or calves or anything like
that.
So
you walk in your hips and that puts a lot of strain on your lower back and, and you know, your, sciatic nerve and all that sort of stuff.
I've just reached a point where to make the next stage of my life more comfortable and I can do it independently with mobility is to make the decision to move to a wheelchair before that decision gets taken from me, if you know what I mean.
But, yeah, you know, the support to do that is very difficult at the moment, especially in light of the most recent NDIS changes.
But, yeah, I'm sure you probably want to know a little bit more about that, Jodie.
The bad stuff.
That's exactly right.
And you don't kind of hear the stories about people like you that really, really need the NDIS.
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