[AMP-L] Woman Helps Amputees Get New Look on Life [Video]

[Wayne Renardson]

via KSAT San Antonio: 

San Antonio Amputee Foundation gives amputees guidance and helps 
them navigate the medical system.


>From war to diabetes to accidents, limb loss is more common than you 

might think. According to the Amputee Coalition, 185,000 amputations 
occur each year in the United States. More than 3.5 million people will 
be living with limb loss by the year 2050.  

Learning to live without an arm or a leg can be challenging and even 
soul-crushing, but it doesn´t have to be.  

One woman has been changing the lives of amputees for more than two 
decades and challenging them to new heights.  

"I had just turned 17," detailed Mona Patel, founder of the San Antonio 
Amputee Foundation.  

Patel remembers that day vividly on the campus of California Poly Tech. 
That was the day a drunk driver changed the trajectory of her life 
forever.  

Patel told Ivanhoe, "I flew up 12 feet, across 6 feet. His car kept going 
and I landed back on his car. And the second impact, he pinned me 
between his car and a metal railing. That´s pretty much what smashed  
the lower leg and foot.

The rest of the story, with video, here:

https://tinyurl.com/yy8futml

Wayne R.