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...Special. Ahead of the Paralympics in Japan, the BBC's disability correspondent introduces us to five people who have experienced important moments in the...

Knowing that it was irreversible. i had my accident in the spring of 1976, and i was 21, and winter had just broke and it was now time for spring water skiing. i'd just taken a big cut to the left and the boat quit. so then all of a sudden over my right shoulder, i turn around and another boat came right at me and so the odds are that my ankle's that wide, that's what it hit, the propeller. had i not had a wetsuit on, i would have bled out, there was just no way — major arteries were cut. but my knee was bent, the wetsuit was tight. itjust stopped the blood flow. they put a cast on your stum...

But first, when sports enthusiast van phillips lost his leg during an accident, he became immediately frustrated by the clumsy prosthetics on offer. determined to run again, he went on to invent the first carbon graphite prosthetic running leg in 1984. it has since simply become known as �*the blade�*. when you lose a body part, it's different from any other experience because it's gone. it'sjust gone. that was the hardest part, knowing that it was irreversible. i had my accident in the spring of 1976, and i was 21, and winter had just broke and it was now time for spring water skiing. i'd...

It has since simply become known as �*the blade�*. when you lose a body part, it's different from any other experience because it's gone. it'sjust gone. that was the hardest part, knowing that it was irreversible. i had my accident in the spring of 1976, and i was 21, and winter had just broke and it was now time for spring water skiing. i'd just taken a big cut to the left and the boat quit. so then all of a sudden over my right shoulder, i turn around and another boat came right at me and so the odds are that my ankle�*s that wide, that's what it hit, the propeller. had i not had a wet...

Exhilarating. but first, when sport's enthusiast lost his leg during an accident, he became immediately frustrated by the clumsy prosthetics on offer. determined to run again, he went on to invent the first carbon graphite running late in 1984. it is since simply become known as the blade.— known as the blade. when you lose a body — known as the blade. when you lose a body part, _ known as the blade. when you lose a body part, it _ known as the blade. when you lose a body part, it is - lose a body part, it is different from any other experience because it is gone. it is just experience bec...