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Article: WALKING TALL AMPUTEE KEEPS POSITIVE FOCUS.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2000
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Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Staff Writer
SIMI VALLEY - After lying comatose for a month following complications from routine hernia surgery, Alan Cronin awoke in his hospital bed to an unspeakable horror.
He couldn't find the words to express, and his family members couldn't find the words to comfort him over what they all knew - that beneath the thick wrap of bandages, his hands and legs had been amputated to halt the gangrene that had spread through his body.
But in the year since the quadruple amputation, the father of three, determined to find a path to a fulfilling life, has remarried and joined a rugby team, and recently, has even taken his ...