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...while Bozik was stationed in Afghanistan--they had made plans for a life together filled with travel and outdoor activities. A gymnast and exercise-physiology student, Peters, 25, had a full, active life ahead of her. Bozik, on the other hand, had just lost both legs and his right arm. So he invited her to walk away. "Things you would be able to do with a regular man, I wasn't going to be able to do anymore," he says. "I told her, 'There won't be any hard feelings. I will completely understand...
...surgeries, is making slow progress with his prostheses, often falls asleep at 3 p.m. because of his agonizing and exhausting physical therapy, and won't be able to leave Walter Reed for many more months. He has pins and plates in all three stumps and in his remaining left arm, plus a lifelong elevated risk of arthritis, back and heart problems. But he's alive and thanks God every day for that...
Frentz, 24, woke up at the burn unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, confused and not a little angry. Her chest was covered with burns. The charred skin on her right arm had been scraped away, leaving her muscles showing. Her jaw would not open. There was an ugly red scar from her breast to her belly button where surgeons had opened her up twice--once in Baghdad and again at the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, to check her lacerated liver and kidney. Sections of the scar still keep opening up in a cascading...
...open wounds in her right hand and elbow, but with the hole in her knee filled with matrix, a collagen product, it now bends almost perfectly. She has lost count of the number of times doctors have harvested skin from her thighs to graft onto her burned torso and arm. She's had five operations on her elbow alone and must wear a full bodysuit--"my black catsuit," she calls it--to prevent further scarring. She had to learn how to walk through her pain after surgeons took the tough skin from the sole of her left foot to remake...
...body-image issue," she says, calmly analyzing herself. She can't bear to look at herself in the mirror. "You can look at a guy with a scar, and some people think it's sexy. It's never sexy on a woman," she says. "My whole arm, my palms just don't look normal." She wonders if guys will ever find her attractive again. "If a guy doesn't like me because of this, that's their problem," she says, trying hard not to cry, then giving in. "I'm sorry I'm crying," she whispers, then straightens...