In the National Rehabilitation Center “Indestructible” a prosthetic leg was installed for 70-year-old Alexander Doronin from Avdiivka. Now he is taking his first steps on it. It is reported by the First Medical Association of Lviv:
“Our patient lived for half a year under daily shelling and tried to lead a familiar life. He took care of two cats and a dog, took care of the household, cultivated a garden. In August, I decided to dig up potatoes. To do this, he independently cleared a garden “littered” with mines.
After the pensioner took out 12 ammunition, there was an explosion. Alexander Doronin lost consciousness, and when he came to, he saw that his right leg was missing.
“All he remembers is how he crawled 150 meters on one hand in the direction of the nearest house,” doctors said. - The bloodied man was spotted by neighbors. It was they who stopped the bleeding and took him to a dilapidated local hospital. Then there were several days in the medical facilities of Pokrovsk and the Dnieper, and then an evacuation train to Lviv.”
Alexander Doronin has been in the rehabilitation center for more than three months. During this time, the surgeons managed to heal the amputated limb and prepare it for prosthetics.
In parallel with her husband, specialists in rehabilitation - physical and psychological - worked. And just the other day, prosthetists installed a prosthesis for the patient. For the first time since August 13, the patient walked a few steps without crutches.
According to doctors, rehabilitation continued ahead of the injured. He must learn to use the prosthesis in order to stand confidently on his feet. Grandfather has no relatives left in Avdiivka, but he still dreams of returning there. There, his cats and dog are waiting for him. Yes, and the garden, he says, should be planted in the spring.
Previously told the story of a mother with two children from Severodonetsk, whose eyesight was miraculously saved by Polish doctors.
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Source: Fakty
