[CurbJumper]

Holy sh!t this guy is bad ass. Talk about rising from the ashes, literally. I don't think I'll ever make a lame-ass excuse not to do something...

"I have never seen myself as seriously wounded," says Giles Duley.

Bomb Took 3 Limbs, but Not Photographer’s Can-Do Spirit

TO the annals of understatement and optimism add this: the account of Giles Duley, an independent photographer, about the moment after he stepped on a hidden bomb while covering an American and Afghan infantry patrol.

Mr. Duley heard a click and felt a flash of heat as the explosion lifted him into the air. He landed on his side on the dirt, roughly five yards from where he had stood. He smelled the stink of the explosives mixed with that of his own burned flesh. He took stock.

“I remember looking up and seeing bits of me and my clothes in the tree, which I knew wasn’t a good sign,” he said. “I saw my left arm. It was just obviously shredded to pieces, and smoldering. I couldn’t feel my legs, so straightaway and from what I could see in the tree, I figured they were gone.”

Mr. Duley had become, in that flash, a triple amputee. Now he risked swiftly bleeding to death. He recalled uttering a single word: “bollocks.”

As the American soldiers he had been walking with rushed toward him and began tightening the tourniquets that would save his life, a fuller line of thought took flight. Rather than tally what was missing, Mr. Duley counted what remained.

“I thought, ‘Right hand? Eyes?’ ” — he realized that all of these were intact — “and I thought, ‘I can work.’ ”

Follow the link for the rest of the 2-page story. Highly recommended read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/world/europe/09duley.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

 

[stevew]

The technicians who fashion the prosthetic limbs at Headley Court are crafting a stubby prosthetic arm that will be fitted with a tripod head. To this, Mr. Duley said, he will attach a camera that he will raise to his eye, and then get back to work.

“You see?” he said, demonstrating how he can move the remaining portion of his left arm.

He swung the stump quickly to his face. Then, with his right hand, he depressed an imaginary shutter button on an imaginary camera hovering where his arm came to its abruptly severed end. “The length is just about perfect,” he said.

damn.

 

[gonefirefightin]

I know a quad amputee that will put his guy to shame, still has a heart of gold wich blows my mind and he rides more than most

you ****erz dont know how good you have it

 

[CurbJumper]

^^ Cool story bro.