'It has been less than a year and a half since my amputation so it is hard for anyone to believe I am doing it'
The 71-year-old will take part in the CN Tower Climb for Nature which will take him up more than 140 flights of stairs this Sunday in Toronto.
"You can be satisfied to walk from point A to point B and that is it. Or you can decide to have your life back. For me, it was an easy decision."It started on April 19, 2021, when Eyre was working on removing some steel roofing from his brother-in-law's house in Mattawa. "I grabbed the eavestrough, and that helped me land on my feet instead of landing on my back.
"They told me I would not run again and that probably bothered me more than anything else," said Eyre. After four months and little improvement to his leg, Eyre decided to get a second opinion. A third option was given to him to reconstruct his leg with more surgery and more plates. Eyre says that would have led to another full year of recovery time with only a 60 per cent success rate. "So I talked with my wife and I said we should go with the amputation and get it over with." Eyre was fortunate, during the rehabilitation process he was able to get fitted for his prosthetic within six weeks; a process which usually takes three months.
"My second day, I climbed some stairs and, by the end of the week, I went for a short run on a treadmill." "I would be laying on the couch and the pain would be so intense in my foot, and lower leg that I did not have. It was so intense. I never took any pain meds to any degree through my first two surgeries but this one here I was taking two acetaminophen 500mgs plus 4mgs of morphine at the same time and it would not touch it. It was so intense.
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