TORONTO – The two bombs set off during the Boston Marathon Monday forced over a dozen people to lose limbs.
Healing and rehabilitation, according to one person whose also suffered amputation, is long and arduous but possible.
Rob Larman was 14-year-old when he jumped onto a slow moving freight train, lost his balance and fell underneath the wheels.
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Larman lost his right leg in the accident.
One of the most difficult parts of undergoing an amputation is recovering from phantom limb syndrome, according to health experts, a condition where you experience pain from a limb that is no longer intact.
“Let’s face it when you lose something you go through a series of emotions,” Larman said. “You go through angry, you go through blaming people and not wanting to accept it.”
But recovery takes time and support he said.
“There’s a healing process,” he said. “But I found in myself that, you know, if there’s a will there’s a way. And with the enormous support I was receiving it showed me that adopting a positive attitude in life is going to allow me to overcome it a lot faster.”
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