http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=AMPUTEE-02-14-05&cat=WWJoey Bozik is his name.<snip>
On Oct. 27, his life changed. As did hers.
He was riding through the desert south of Baghdad when his Humvee rolled over a bomb. His buddies were OK. But Joey lost his right leg above the knee. His left leg, at the knee. His right arm, at the elbow.
They sent him to Germany, to the hospital. Then, they sent him home. He woke up in the amputee ward in Walter Reed, in Washington. Jayme was there.
He hurt where his arm and legs used to be. His foot hurt so badly he thought it was broken. He doesn't remember it, but Jayme does. She stayed most nights in the hospital room.
He could not feed himself, go to the bathroom, turn a page.
Family came. Friends. His mother, Gail, packed three outfits and stayed three months. She cared for him as he became a child all over again, learning to crawl, to sit, to eat.
If he would ever enter politics - would there be some bitch like Ann Coulter who would say he was only going to a party when he was so horribly injured?