00:00so after eight months at that point i didn't have a wheelchair i didn't have any prosthetics so i
00:05had no way of eating independently and i didn't want to go home because i knew that when i got
00:11there i'd be dependent on dependent on my son and i remember my best friend flying in from france
00:18come to see me that last weekend and he could see that i was just desperate and he said you
00:22know
00:22you gotta stop worrying about it it's going to be great and i said but you know i don't want
00:26to be
00:26a burden to my family and he said no no you don't understand i've given up my job in france
00:30i'm
00:31going to move in with you and he moved in with us and he was our driver our physiotherapist our
00:37occupational therapist he did everything so i'm forever in his debt really for what he gave up
00:41for us the idea of prosthetics was keeping me buoyant because it was only going to improve my life moving
00:47forward but when i went to rehab in london it became quite apparent that the national health
00:52service couldn't afford to give me the best equipment available and at that point i was
00:57picked up by a military charity on the south coast of england now i'm not ex-military but people started
01:03to hear about what was going on and they felt that my mindset would work really well within the military
01:08community of injured lads so these guys kind of took me under their wig and said oh you know we
01:12do
01:12some adventure stuff like kayaking and skydiving and all that sort of thing that was never my thing and
01:18they invited me skydiving i did it i loved it and it made me realize that for years i've been
01:23living
01:23this kind of almost closeted life not willing to take opportunities or chances when i should have done
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