Boston Marathon victim Roseann Sdoia chooses to look on the bright side...

Boston real estate executive Roseann Sdoia asked herself if she was ready to die after one of the Boston Marathon bombs ripped her right leg off. She told the Herald’s Christine McConville yesterday she chose life. Today, moving into the next phase of her life as it is now, she’ll be fitted with her first prosthetic leg:

“I’m an above-the-knee right leg amputee, and I’m picking up my prosthesis (today).

It’s bittersweet. I’ve tried on the test socket, and it’s not as uncomfortable as I expected it to be.

It’s not a ‘one-and-done’ situation. ... My health 
insurance has been fantastic, but I don’t know what’s going to happen in five years, when I need a new prosthesis.

Am I going to be remembered as a survivor of the Boston Marathon and get the treatment that I’m getting now? Am I going to be lumped into this situation where they may cover it or they may not?

If there’s new technology that comes out that I want to live my life, are they going to cover it?

When President Obama came to see me at Mass. General, one of the things he did say is that prosthetics have come a long way because of the Iraq War.

It’s quite unfortunate that it has evolved so much because of such a terrible thing, but the technology really is amazing.”

Today, in Newton, Sdoia will be getting a Genium prosthesis.

“They’re amazing. There’s
a microprocessor in the knee and it takes like 100 snapshots a second of your leg, and it gets to the point where it starts mimicking your other leg, and it gets to know your stride and your step. If you are 
going up stairs, it will mimic 
your other leg going up the stairs. ...

I’m one of the lucky ones. So many angels came into my life and helped me that day. They will be part of my life forever.

When I decided to get through it, the positive side of me took over.

Life is what it is. That’s how I’ve always lived. That’s always been my advice.

You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you react to it. You can either make it good for yourself, or you can be miserable. I don’t like being miserable.”