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my name's Kaden baggley I got an
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accident May of 2021 we were out tubing
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and the tube hit a wave and I was
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standing in the back and so my grip gave
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out I went like flying off the tube when
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the boat came around and did a 360 to
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try to like knock people off and spin
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the tube it came back and I was in the
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water and no one saw me in the middle of
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the boat kind of like went over my
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midsection to the legs and the propeller
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caught my right and left leg and then I
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was like pulled up on the back of the
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boat gotten NE was a to the hospital we
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had a 45-minute drive to the hospital
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probably the longest 45 minutes of my
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life and I was able to see him and he
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was awake and alert and I was able to
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you know really quickly kiss him and
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pray over him when patients have the
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types of injuries that Kaden sustained
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in his boating accident there are times
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when there is such an amount of injury
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to a limb and the decision is made very
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early to need to proceed with amputating
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the limb in his particular case it was
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clear that his knee joint would not be
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salvageable and that the amputation
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would have to occur above the knee joint
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one of the possible techniques that can
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be used is an amputation by the kneecap
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is actually preserved and able to be
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incorporated onto the end of the thigh
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bone which provides for a more
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successful biomechanical end result
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because the quadricep muscle is still
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able to function more efficiently and
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makes the prosthetic use and fitting
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more
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successful after the accident the next
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day was Mother's Day probably the
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hardest Mother's Day of my entire life
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and I kept having to remind myself that
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it is a happy Mother's Day my child's
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alive you can get so focused on your
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life before that you don't have anymore
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and how hard it's going to be it's like
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getting a new car or something if you
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were attached to that car and then you
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wrecked it and that's just kind of like
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your new life and you just have to like
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adapt to it and so it can either kill
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you or you can beat it when a patient
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has these types of injuries it always is
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understandably a huge shock not only to
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the patient but their entire family and
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social support system I have always been
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amazed at how well Kaden and his famili
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have been able to come together and move
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forward on A New Path pathway in life
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and I think that has played heavily into
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how well he's recovered and how
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successful his new pathway in life
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continues to
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be Kaden about a year after his accident
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said Mom I want to go visit people in
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the hospital just give hope to people so
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when they're sitting in that hospital
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just staring at those four walls want to
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give hope Julie Shane called me and said
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would you be willing to visit Carson
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Galloway who had just had an accident
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and was having to make the hard choices
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and
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decisions my name is car Galloway and
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last year I was involved in a motorcycle
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accident which led to the amputation of
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my right leg and a partial amputation of
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my left arm I'll never forget June 23rd
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as long as I live receiving that message
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that my son had been into an accident
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and learning how severe it was after
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like his second or third surgery Dr
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Tucker sat down with me and really
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explained that amputation was a high
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likelihood at that point at first we
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were trying to wake the pros and cons of
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amputating it that was when we met Kaden
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and Liz they really helped with the
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whole mental aspect of it them showing
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us that this isn't really going to slow
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you down seeing how happy he was I think
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seeing him helped me lead to the
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decision of amputating it one thing
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Kaden said to us was you'll get through
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it and you'll be able to do more than
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you think you can that was very
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reassuring for us what I had shared with
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Carson and his mom that day was I wanted
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them to know that there is life outside
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this Hospital there is life outside
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these four walls the injuries that we
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treat every single day are life-changing
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and life altering you know people don't
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wake up and ask for these things to
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happen they're not planning for these
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things to happen these things happen to
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them usually even though life looks
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different it still can be the same you
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can still go out and do the same things
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it just may be done a little bit
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differently me and cson have gone done
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like multiple activities we've gone
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skiing like I also told him when he was
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in the hospital that like I had started
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walking in 3 months and that was like a
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record or something and so he started
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walking in 2 and 1/2 months and he's
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like oh I beat you I stole it it's just
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like a competition at this point of like
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who can do what better or faster with a
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prosthetic one thing that I love now is
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wheelchair basketball it was just as
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competitive as normal basketball it was
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honestly harder it gave me an
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opportunity to go to college off it
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which I would never have found in like
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lacrosse like the kid that I was playing
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before kayen has handled this accident
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so unbelievably well he's Ed so much
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hope for so many people around him to be
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that person at such a young age as his
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mom I'm just so thankful to God for that
