From AARP:
For eight years, Thomas Smallwood got around relatively well for a man with no legs. Poor circulation had led Smallwood, 63 at the time, to a difficult choice: his legs or his life. He chose the latter. You don’t need legs to be a man, he thought. The man makes the legs.
Or in his case, the arms. Until age 71, Smallwood used his arms to amble around his home. But the stairs — five to the front door, 13 once inside — were the problem. “I had to go up the steps on my nubs,” says Smallwood. “If I wanted to go outside, somebody had to carry me out.”