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...House when Mike Dukakis was governor and again when Bill Weld [’66] was there, and trust me, there’s a big difference,” Murphy said, just as his young son Joseph leapt forward to try to hug his father’s leg. “We’ve been in the wilderness for 16 long years,” Murphy concluded, before introducing his son to the amused caucus-goers...
Braddock has had a year to live with his injuries and his new leg, which now sports a huge State of Washington seal. He calls the ugly seam where doctors sewed up his arm "my favorite scar." His right ankle, the one he was born with, gives him more problems than his prosthetic ankle. "I could take my shoe off to show you," he offers, "but it takes an act of God to get it back on." Then, while people around us are getting barbecue sauce all over their faces, he relives Jan. 13, 2005, the night...
Humor has been his armor throughout recovery. Sure, there was a lot of griping and yelling too, to hear him tell it. It started two weeks after the aborted scouting mission when a doctor at Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, Wash., told him that both his legs would have to be amputated. "I wanted to throw a rock at him," says Braddock. He got a second opinion--an extra effort that saved one leg but not the other. Before he went into surgery, he painted a dotted line and scissors on the bad leg and wrote, "Cut here...
...point to bitch out people who are giving up on themselves," he says. "I told them, 'You know the difference between amputees and cripples? A cripple is someone who gives up.'" Last May, three months after his surgery, he hiked up Washington's Mount St. Helens with his prosthetic leg just to prove that he could do it. "You suck it up and drive on," he says. His mom says he is blessed in his positive attitude. "One of the things that always helped Matthew is he never looked back," she says...
What worries him now is the waiver he needs to get into the Army with a prosthetic leg. Failing that, he might return to Texas, learn some Spanish and try for a border-patrol job. There is no girlfriend in his life. "With this chubby Irish mug?" he asks, noting the 20 lbs. he has put on since his accident. But the ladies do take notice, he admits. "I tell girls I got blown up by an antitank mine in Iraq. It's cheesy, but it works." And he really has drunk out of his prosthetic leg--although...