Carson Pickett: First Soccer Player with Limb Difference in USWNT

This week, we want to highlight Carson Pickett, the first soccer player with a limb difference on the US Women’s National Team (USWNT). She made her international debut on June 28 in a match against Colombia, and the US won the game 2-0. Carson currently plays for the North Carolina Courage in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). She’s previously played for the Orlando Pride, Brisbane Roar, and Seattle Reign FC.

Carson has played professional soccer since 2016 and has been vocal about using her platform to spread awareness and normalize limb differences. Her April 5 Instagram post honoring Limb Loss and Difference Awareness Month is an inspiring reminder that we all have our paths to self-acceptance and self-confidence.

Carson is a reminder that anyone can achieve a dream they set their mind to! We hope to see her making more goals and strides toward limb difference representation, and we’ll be cheering her on!

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July 13, 2022

Joan Vaughn

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Written by Joan Vaughn

I’m Joan, and I know home care from the inside out. I’ve navigated my daughter through 24/7 home care nursing and managed her PCA’s. I’ve helped my parents move into (and out of) assisted living, Medicare episodes, skilled nurse visits, home health aids, and PCAs. Sandwiched in all of that, I’ve helped coordinate home care equipment and supplies, physical therapists, occupational therapists, county workers, and medications (oh, the medications). I know emergency departments, children’s hospitals, cancer wards, cardiac floors, and specialty units. I can recite health insurance policies (and call their bluff). I know a lot of other things in life too, like Shakespeare, where to sit to see a great sunset over a lake, how to keep myself healthy, how to read a profit/loss statement and state statutes, when to use a comma, and that gratitude is one of the keys to success. So I’m going to have this blog and write about home care from time to time. I’ll include topics like current legislation, professional boundaries in a tricky environment, and being a caregiver. I’ll also post some guest blogs from clients and nurses. Join me in the conversation.

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