Dear Sir. - I have found time at last to write to you again. Perhaps you will remember I wrote a year or so ago under the name of "Single High Heel." Just lately you have published other letters from monopedes.
I am now happily married to a husband who considers my lack of a left limb one of my charms. As I told you in my last letter, my leg was amputated as the result of a smash whilst pillion riding. Since then I have learnt to do most things that I did prior to my accident, including the wearing of a high heel.
Before my accident I was noted among my friends for the height of my heels, and I determined that when I fully regained my strength I would not be satisfied with an invalid's existence, so that starting with a heel 2 inch in height, I was in few month able again to wear a shoe with a five inch heel. Of course I do not wear: these outdoors, which would be foolish; for a slip on such a heel and a pair of lightweight crutches might prove serious.
We have a dinky little flat, which my husband insisted on when we were married, on account of there being no stairs to climb, and I manage all my own work. While about my household duties I wear a rubber-soled heelless shoe similar to a tennis shoe, in which I can hop about everywhere, for to be continually picking up and laying down a crutch is a nuisance when one is in the 'buses.
While in the hospital I made friends with two other girls who had lost their legs, and we keep up the friendship still. One, unfortunately, has since had to have the other leg removed through complications, but she is wonderfully active, and recently spent a weekend with us. She uses a self-propelled chair.
A few weeks ago you published a letter from "A New monopede" who has my deepest sympathy. I think we all felt as she does for a time, but time is a great healer, and she will find many compensations. Regarding her inquiry for smart crutches she should have no difficulty in obtaining these at a good surgical store.
At our wedding I wore white and my husband bought me some silvered crutches, with which I wore a silver sandal with a 3 inch heel. My friends told me how chic I looked.
Congratulations to "Happy One-legged Girl." I hope by now she is happily married. Also to "Edith" for her jolly letter and suggestions re photos. I hope she will now send hers. I am enclosing some recently taken, showing the critics that I can wear a
Single High Heel