Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Wounded soldiers a long-term legacy - A.P.
Staff Sgt. Lee Jones was riding in a Humvee when the blast from a roadside bomb enveloped the vehicle. He was badly burned on his face, hands, arms and feet, and he suffered a severe brain injury.
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He suffered three strokes, seizures and several comas, and has a severe brain injury. One thumb had to be amputated, and he had many surgeries for burns that also damaged his nerves and caused muscle weakness, so now he must use a wheelchair.
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If one thing could be better?
"My hands," he said, looking at the twisted, red masses of stiffened tissue that do not allow him to feed himself, shoot a basketball or hold his toddler daughter, Angel, born two months before he went to Iraq.
How does he cope?
Big smile. "Every day is a good day. Three died but me. Three died but me."
Staff Sgt. Lee Jones was riding in a Humvee when the blast from a roadside bomb enveloped the vehicle. He was badly burned on his face, hands, arms and feet, and he suffered a severe brain injury.
...
He suffered three strokes, seizures and several comas, and has a severe brain injury. One thumb had to be amputated, and he had many surgeries for burns that also damaged his nerves and caused muscle weakness, so now he must use a wheelchair.
...
If one thing could be better?
"My hands," he said, looking at the twisted, red masses of stiffened tissue that do not allow him to feed himself, shoot a basketball or hold his toddler daughter, Angel, born two months before he went to Iraq.
How does he cope?
Big smile. "Every day is a good day. Three died but me. Three died but me."
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