Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs.

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

I guess, when I go there in the centre, when I do my rehabilitation, I look at the people with only one leg and I actually envy them because I'd love to have one leg. I guess the ones that only have one leg, they envy the ones that they are only missing one leg below the knee, and on and on.

The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn't even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

I can't really say I miss my toes.