"I hit them all right and it just developed from there," he says. Jones set himself a target of being home for Christmas - and hit it.īy the following spring he had a prosthetic leg and, having watched disability golf videos on the internet while in hospital, Jones' first stop when he was able to walk was the driving range.
Everything was let's push on, do my recovery and get out of here." Mike Jones has won a number of EDGA tournaments The next morning my wife came and said 'what's happened to you?'. "He said you have two choices, you can either sit in bed, feel sorry for yourself and go on that downward spiral, or you decide to take your recovery head on and do something about it," Jones adds. He was in tears when a double amputee who had suffered with diabetes "wheeled over and said 'Mike, we need to have a chat'". Jones, who was aged 50 and had a son at university, remembers lying in his hospital bed wondering "what I am going to do for the rest of my life". I nearly bled to death on the side of the road - the paramedics saved my life." It snapped my pelvis in half and broke the head off my femur. "The biggest injury, the life-threatening injury, was my thigh hit through the back of my pelvis. "It was a very low speed accident but it crushed my left leg below the knee - every bone was broken," Jones says. He was on the daily commute when he was knocked off his motorbike. Jones, from Pontypool, used to be an electrical engineer.
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"This totally changed my perception on what's important, what we need to move forward and how to be positive." But if I'd had the accident and still had my leg, I don't know whether it would have changed the way I perceive things or approach things. "Obviously it would be great if I had my leg again. "It's a crazy, crazy statement, but it's so true. "I look at my accident and think it's the best thing that happened to me," Jones says. There were some "brutally dark times" during six weeks in hospital, until a conversation with another patient transformed Jones' mindset. He lost his left leg after a road accident on Halloween 2015.
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