When Rustin Hughes woke from his second amputation surgery on September 11, 2014, he was on a gurney, alone in a hallway, staring at a stark elevator door.
He had undergone a transtibial amputation a few weeks earlier after a blood clot in his femoral artery cut off the circulation to his lower leg. This time, he looked under the sheet and saw that more of his leg was gone. “There was no one around, and that’s when I started freaking out,” he remembers. “At that point I was so devastated.”
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