When Andy Grant's eyes blinked open from a 10-day coma in February 2009 he was alone in a hospital bed in Birmingham. He had a broken sternum, a broken leg, a broken elbow and shrapnel lodged in both forearms. He had a severed femoral artery, nerve damage to his hands and feet as well as deep gaping wounds in both of his cheeks. He had been blown up during a routine foot patrol in Afghanistan. Within days of coming to his senses, a doctor told Andy that because of the blast he would no longer be able to have children... Andy would walk again - he would do much more than that. 'You'll Never Walk' is his story.
Former soldier Andy Grant took on massively debilitating injuries during patrols in Afghanistan, and opted for his leg to be amputated, the amputation falling with a dark irony between the final two words of a 'You'll Never Walk Alone' tattoo. Andy's story of recovery and sporting excellence in the years since the amputation is reflected on poignantly and inspirationally here, as well as Andy's becoming a father despite medical warnings of the impossibility of this.
