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How's LIFE?\xa0Is it FULL of LAUGHTER?\xa0Is is FULL of JOY?\xa0Is it totally MUNDANE?\xa0Are we USING\xa0every PRECIOUS\xa0moment we have to LIVE? Are we saying it's GOOD TO BE ALIVE? \xa0How do we handle\xa0LIFE when BAD THINGS HAPPEN?\n Meet Melinda Minton; a mother, a successful business woman, a world explorer, an author, a woman overflowing with laughter and a bi-lateral amputee. \xa0Listen to her story of flu-like symptoms that was found to be Necrotizing Fasciitis, a Strep A\xa0germ that kills more often than not. Her journey that includes: "death", a coma, \xa0listening to the doctors tell her she would lose part of her lips, part of her tongue, and her legs, the painful rehabilitation, the fitting of\xa0prosthesis, learning to crawl and walk again. And, most importantly, Melinda LAUGHS!\xa0She is able to say with all confidence, "IT'S GOOD TO BE ALIVE!"\nMelinda Minton, author of RAW, extreme living, states on her website: "It is interesting that many respond to my physical presence as if I were a live, vibrant, running around, laughing two-footed creature and I am. It is only when they hear of a \u201cdisability\u201d that their perspective changes. I like to live as if this were my last moment so attacking the joy that life so willingly offers has always been my only option. My children have aptly pointed out that if I ever need to I can take my legs off and use them for something\u2026to dig a trench, self defense, to plant a tree or to place the foundation for something else that I am building."