I was riding my motorbike to a routine appointment when a car hit me side-on. I flew off my motorcycle, crashing into the road.
But instead, I’d suffered a degloving – where the flesh, tissue and muscle around my left ankle was lost and the sole of my foot fell off. I was also bleeding out.
After a few days in hospital, however, as the months of rehabilitation loomed in front of me, I felt a sense of hopelessness. It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. And I’d done two tours of Northern Ireland and Afghanistan in my career as an army reservist, dealing with the daily threat of IEDs that haunted every step that we took on patrol.
After gruelling rehabilitation, my walking was improving, but even though my physical health was strengthening, my mental health had fallen apart.I started withdrawing from my family and avoided the things I once used to enjoy.
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