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- My name is Myles
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and I live here in Greenville,
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South Carolina.
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I'm a husband,
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I'm a father,
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and also an entrepreneur.
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I was I'm minding my own business,
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just coming home from the gym,
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thought the day was over.
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It was just a normal day,
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like any other day.
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And I was hit by a drunk driver head on.
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Really the only next memory I had was
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honestly being asked if I was able
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to have my leg amputated
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to basically be able to survive.
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I just agreed to it.
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And I don't really remember too much of how I felt,
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but just more so that I'm at least in good hands.
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Like I'm at least here at the hospital
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that I just realized like whatever has to be done
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will be done.
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- As far as Myles' injury spectrum.
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I mean, limb and life-threatening
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and he broke all four extremities.
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He broke both femurs,
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the top of his right tibia,
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his right wrist,
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severely his left humerus
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and had a left elbow fracture dislocation
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and compartment syndrome of all four of those extremities
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in a major car wreck.
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And some of those procedures were incredibly complicated.
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Including his eventual amputation through his left knee,
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which was not straightforward
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and the fact that he is ambulating with a prosthesis
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is truly remarkable.
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- In the ICU.
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You're just,
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you're really just kind of sitting there,
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just kind of being taken care of,
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but being able to go downstairs
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to Roger C peace for like the actual rehab part of it
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that made me feel like,
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all right,
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now I can just go all out
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and just work as hard as I can.
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- So Myles' outcome
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When he came to me,
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he didn't really know
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how he was even going to get out of bed.
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So, by the time he left here,
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he was getting out of bed on his own,
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getting into the wheelchair by himself,
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getting over basically washing himself up,
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getting himself dressed for 90% of the way,
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using those adaptive techniques
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and strength and endurance that we worked on here.
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Then versus now, gosh,
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he's doing his walk with miles
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and walking a mile now,
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and he's in the gym all the time.
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And from what I see,
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he's doing amazing.
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- It was great to at least start getting back.
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some of these daily activities that I wasn't able to do,
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obviously when I was in the hospital for so many weeks,
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and then we started slowly moving
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to some of these bigger things.
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I remember the day,
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it was so awesome to be able to get that experience
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of being in a wheelchair.
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Cause I'm like,
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oh man, we're really getting somewhere now.
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- So here in the prosthetics and orthotics department,
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we'll see amputees that range from a partial foot,
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all the way to a mid thigh level.
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And miles case he had a through knee amputation,
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which goes right through the middle of the knee joint.
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So my goals pretty much fall in line
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with the patient's goals.
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And Myles wanted to get back to his active lifestyle.
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before his accident
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he was working out at the gym,
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very active guy getting around.
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And so our goal was to get him back to that.
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- The prosthetic is a huge huge aspect
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to what I'm able to do
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because without this prosthetic,
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without Brandon and the team,
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and them really doing everything they can
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to allow me to continue to have that active lifestyle.
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I mean everything's about
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how can we get him as active as he used to be.
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And I'm doing a lot of that.
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I'm in the gym a lot,
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I'm doing a lot of physical activity,
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nowhere close to where I can be.
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And I just want to keep pushing and moving forward
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to what more can I do?
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What more can I do?
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Because it's fun.
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It's really fun to empower my family
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and empower others and myself.
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That just because something happened
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so traumatic in your life,
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it doesn't have to control your life.
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You can still live a great life,
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there's purpose in the pain.
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So it's just something that you really work and use,
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to have an incredible life.
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