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Lance Corporal<\/p>\n
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I was injured in Afghanistan, where I was serving with The King\u2019s Royal Hussars. On 28th September 2007, I woke up early, at about three in the morning. It\u2019s getting light by then. It was nice and quiet until about eleven o\u2019clock. Me and my mate Lux had to take over the front desk on sentry duty, and everyone on the other side of the compound was getting hammered by heavy fire for about an hour. Then we had a suicide bomber, a woman, come to the camp compound. It didn\u2019t go off, so she got dropped and then Lux sorted her out.<\/p>\n
Then all went quiet, so we were chilling out again. I remember I was reading a letter from my wife. It calms you down, so you can just get back on with it. That\u2019s pretty much all I remember. And then, I don\u2019t know how they did it, but an RPG [rocket- propelled grenade] came over the wall. I don\u2019t remember it coming, but it hit the wall behind me. It didn\u2019t hit me directly, luckily.<\/p>\n
The next thing I remember, I was singing Liverpool songs in Birmingham hospital. I learnt that I\u2019d been flown to Birmingham and been in an induced coma for about a week. I couldn\u2019t see for about a month because my eyes were all swollen together. I don\u2019t remember much of that time. But I remember the day I opened my eyes. My wife was with me, we were in a lift. And that was the first time I saw her.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t remember what I was initially told about the extent of my injuries but my wife told me that they\u2019d told her that I could be completely blind; it was just a case of wait and see. Later on they spoke to me and said you\u2019ve had a piece of your brain removed, which is your visual cortex, which processes your sight. They explained that my sight wasn\u2019t going to improve but it wasn\u2019t going to get any worse. I can\u2019t see anything with my right eye. With my left eye, it\u2019s like a tunnel vision. If you imagine looking through binoculars, that\u2019s what vision is like in my left eye.<\/p>\n
In terms of my head injuries, I fractured my skull, which meant I had no skull on one side of my head for a year, which gave me a lot of headaches. Now I\u2019ve got a titanium plate in my head. I\u2019ve got two little lads, they don\u2019t yet understand what happened to me. Luke, my oldest, has a look every now and then, but he\u2019s not old enough to understand.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve now been medically discharged from the Army. I\u2019ve had a lot of rehabilitation support from Blind Veterans UK, they\u2019ve looked after me. They taught me to use a long cane, I\u2019d be lost without that. They taught me how to cook again, little things like using a knife. I also go to football every week. I\u2019ve got a trip to Snowdon planned in September, that\u2019s with Blind Veterans UK. I need something to keep busy, so that, and the garden and what have you, something to keep me busy.<\/p>\n
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