Word: knee
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They tried to raise their wounded legs to slow the bleeding. "There was nothing to elevate my leg except for the piece of my leg that had been blown off from the knee down," Wyatt says. "So I took my leg and jammed it under the stump to keep it pointing up. It was kind of messy." It may have been messy, but it worked. Meinen and Wyatt held hands, trying to reassure each other. "We're not gonna die in this track," Meinen said. "We're not gonna die over here." He was right. About an hour after being...
...tougher. "Those kinds of injuries mean more infections and multiple surgeries," he says. Wyatt nods; he knows this from experience. He has had 10 surgeries since being wounded, with several inches of thigh carved off in the process. "So I'm going to start off with a mechanical knee?" the young soldier asks. Miller says no. Like all soldiers now who have lost a leg above the knee, he's going to receive the high-tech, German-made CLeg, which is made of carbon fiber and has a hydraulic knee. "Cool!" says Wyatt with a smile...
...Charnock’s place, Kerr started senior Ladd Fritz, who missed time early in the season with a knee injury...
Each looks to fill the shoes of senior Jessica Ruddock, last year’s starter, who was forced to retire from the game prematurely due to a knee injury that precipitated an injury to an already damaged...
Bergman, on the other hand, has been suffering from what reportedly amounts to a more severe version of the same exact knee problem Lingman has long endured, with future arthroscopic surgery to repair a potentially torn meniscus a distinct possibility...