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Double amputee shares her story of leaving the wheelchair behind

Yvonne Llanes, a double amputee, is seeing the world differently these days -- and she says it's beautiful.

This week, she shared her mobility story to motivate and inspire other amputees at Hanger Clinic's double above-knee amputee boot camp in Oklahoma City -- the same event she participated in in April 2015, at the request of her father.

"I'm hoping that by seeing what I'm doing and by seeing how far I've come in my journey, that they too can see that they can do it, as well," she said. "It is possible to get up again."

In September 2005, Llanes of Yuma, Arizona, was in a store parking lot, putting bags in the back of her sport utility vehicle. She was hit from behind by another car and pinned between the vehicles. Doctors had to amputate her legs above the knee. She was 36 years old.

After Llanes was hospitalized and received rehabilitation, she started using a wheelchair.

"I was just depressed. I was sad. I was mad at the world, was mad at everything and everybody. And I wanted my life back," she told ABC News in January. "I wanted my legs back."

She spent nine years and seven months in a wheelchair. Then, keeping a promise to her father, she attended the boot camp in Oklahoma. It was a game-changer. She said she saw fellow amputees walking around, not requiring the use of wheelchairs or other devices.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/double-amputee-shares-story-leaving-wheelchair/story?id=46661839

　見出しにもある"amputee"を取り上げます。LDOCEで意味を確認してみると、"someone who has had an arm or a leg amputated"と定義されていました。
　『ジーニアス英和辞典』第４版（大修館）では、「切断手術を受けた人」とありました。動詞は"amputate"「（外科手術として）（手足など）を切断する」となります。ここでは"double amputee"なので両足切断されたことが分かります。

amputee - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から義足ランナー the south African double-amputee Oscar Pistorius 世界陸上 - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から