Anger Management
Def Leppard "Behind the Music" talks about the drummer's car accident and recovery.<p>His seatbelt cut off his arm, and the family living at a nearby farmhouse included a nurse, who initially responded.<p>When recovering from limb injuries, there's some surprising possible side effects:<p>1) infection or circulation problems can kill other limbs. People with kidney damage or sepsis often lose all four limbs.<p>2) Overexerting during recovery (or even later) can cause an overuse injury to the healthy limb. For example, climbing out of a bathtub with one arm can cause nerve or muscle damage that effectively kills the good arm.<p>3) The embedded Time reporter during the Iraq war who threw the sticky bomb out of his team's Humvee lost his hand. He initially tried a modern prosthetic, but changed to a hook since it was 100% reliable (strong, waterproof, certain), and the fake hand wasn't.<p>For One Reporter, Embedding Is Journalistic Folly<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6422782" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=642278...</a>