I lost both legs and my left hand to an IED in Afghanistan but now I’m half-man, half-SHARK after pioneering surgery

I lost both legs and my left hand to an IED in Afghanistan but now I’m half-man, half-SHARK after pioneering surgery

BRITAIN’S youngest triple amputee soldier has told how pioneering skin graft surgery made him “half man, half shark”. Rifleman Craig Wood lost both his legs above the knee, and his left hand, in 2009 following a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan. He was just 18. Speaking to mark Remembrance Sunday today, Craig, 34, from Doncaster,… Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]

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