"Outdoor activities are my passion: skiing,
hiking and motor-biking are why I moved to Canada from Israel. That passion is
also why I chose to amputate my right leg. It was badly damaged in 2010,
in a near-fatal car accident. I was driving along British Columbia’s notorious Coquihalla Highway in a snow storm. I skidded
on black ice, spun, and the car flipped on its roof and into the path of a
lorry. Three days later, I woke from an induced coma: my right femur was
shattered into 17 pieces and my ankle smashed. Three surgeons wanted to
amputate the leg; a fourth argued I was still young and might recover..."
Read the full story on the Guardian online.
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