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      My name is Alan Rayment. I am from Crowle in North Lincolnshire. I am a bilateral amputee and a wheelchair user. I suffered from leg ulcers on both legs for ten years, and then contracted the deadly bug MRSA and had to have my left amputated. What a terrible shock it was to me as I was a long-distance truck driver at the time. Was my career over? I wasn’t sure. I spent three months in hospital and in total had ten operations and lost nearly two stone in weight. I left hospital in December that year and that’s when the hard work started.

      I learned to walk with a prosthetic left limb and everything seemed to be going great. Just after summer I had learned to stand and walk with crutches. It was an amazing feeling to be walking again, my right leg was taking a lot of pressure at the time and the ulcer was getting worse. I was experiencing tremendous pain in my left leg but I battled through. I got a new job as a Transport Manager at the firm I use to drive for and working took my mind off the pain.

      I had to stop learning to walk as my left leg was giving me so much pain; I was taking so many painkillers that at times I was not really with it. I was admitted to hospital and told only hours later that my leg ulcer had MRSA. I was devastated: the ulcer was so bad and painful, I was in excruciating pain and I knew what laid ahead for me. I wasn’t looking forward to it.

      I had my right leg amputated below my knee and everything went extremely well. I was discharged from hospital after only two weeks, but this time I was in a wheelchair. My main aim was to walk again no matter what it took. The leg was healing well and I was back at work, but then another shock came in December when I had a car accident. My car left the road and slid into a drain and sank. I had to break the window to get out. I swam to the side of the drain and waited for assistance. The fire and ambulance crew came to the rescue. It was a cold freezing December evening and I couldn’t believe my luck. I shouldn’t be here today. My right stump had been injured in the accident and it didn’t look too good as my wound had opened up.

      The following year I spent working, hoping my leg would heal below my knee, but it didn’t look good. I spent a full year with dressings on my leg, and the pain had crept back in. All I wanted to do was get measured up for another prosthetic limb and get walking again, but it wasn’t to be. I visited a surgeon and asked him to amputate my leg above my knee; I knew I still had a chance to walk again, although I was told it was going to be extremely hard as I would have no knee joints. I had the operation and my leg healed within 28 days. I was excited that I was going to be measured up for my right leg, and things were looking up.

      I had put on a lot of weight and I felt really uncomfortable with myself. I knew I had to be strong and fit if I wanted to give walking my all, and I had to lose some of the excess pounds. I was nearly two stone overweight so there was a lot of work to do.

      I asked myself a few questions. Should I go to a gym? Will it cost me a fortune? Would people stare at me? I concluded that I needed a programme I could follow in my own home. I bought a book, Solitary Fitness, by Charles Bronson. I had read about Charlie and I knew how fit and strong he was, and I wanted to be strong like him. Charlie has achieved so much and I knew just how serious he was about fitness.

      118 Push ups in sixty seconds!

       1790 Sit ups in 1 hour!

       This is amazing!

      I started to read and it was incredible – just what I needed. The book was easy to follow I started the exercises in my own home on the kitchen floor. There was nobody to stare at me and it was free. I followed the book step by step just as Charlie said. I did the exercises every day, sometimes twice a day.

      After only a few weeks I was getting strong and I had even managed to lose some of the weight I had gained since being in my wheelchair. The book was like my bible. I swear by it – it helped me through some extremely tough times.

      I learned to walk during two years at physio, but I found it very difficult as I was experiencing a lot of pain in my groin and on the ends of my stumps. I had a long chat with my physio assistant and she told me that, although I was doing really well, if I wanted to go long distances I would still have to use my wheelchair. This made me question why I was putting so much effort into walking

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