Hiking in the Utah mountains, Casey Hunter slipped and fell down a steep snowy incline and boulder patch. With his leg hanging and patched together with a make-shift tourniquet, he crawled up the mountain, found the cell phone he had dropped in the fall, and called his wife, Amy. A Life Flight hoist team rescued him from the slope.
In spite of multiple surgeries and an amputation, Casey says his life is better as a result of the experience. “I've been through a lot, a lot, and I don't feel there's anything I can't overcome. I feel like it's made me a better person. I wouldn't change what happened to me for anything.”
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