Daniela Maier – That's how she rolls

Daniela Maier was in good health until she was 30 years old. Then, after a HIT type II, she had both her lower legs amputated. After one and a half years in hospital and rehabilitation, she has learned to see her life from a different perspective. How she wants to help other people in such an extreme situation and what her blog has to do with it, she tells us at REHACARE.com.

What makes you laugh?

Daniela Maier: A lot of situations in my everyday life. There is no day I don't laugh about myself, because I don't take myself too serious.

What have you always been wanting to do and why have you never done this so far?

Daniela Maier: Taking a longer break from my job and traveling through Asia. So far, I have been lacking the necessary financial cushion and the associated planning effort has put me off.

Which person has influenced you most? And why?

Daniela Maier: My mother, she is a very empathetic and open-minded person. She often backs up her own needs. I used to see this selflessness as a weakness, today I try to be more like her myself.

You have the chance to become the Commissioner for the Disabled in your country. What would you do first?

Daniela Maier: Implement measures to make people with disabilities more visible in all areas of public life, such as in the media. People with disabilities often live in a kind of parallel society.

Daniela Maier: Currently the project PiK - Peer Counseling in the Hospital: Here I am available as an amputee for people with a similar fate as a contact person. Especially before and after the amputation.

I would like to be ...

Daniela Maier: ...known for having helped other people in crisis situations through my blog and the establishment of a network and for promoting the exchange between people with leg amputation.

Which question would you like to get answered?

Daniela Maier: How well will I cope with my disability until old age?

What else I wanted to say about me...

Daniela Maier: Life is beautiful, nobody said it would be easy. :)