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I'm Kara Price.

Yes, it's Friday, but instead of the week in tech, we wanted to share a conversation I had with Jim Ashworth Beaumont.

Some years ago, Jim was clipped by a truck when biking and sustained a traumatic injury.

I was sitting at traffic lights, andorry basically turned as it was leaving the traffic

lights and it caught me on the side of the vehicle and dragged me underneath. So I was

essentially going to get crushed by the back wheels and I reflexively reached up to the bottom of the

lorry and grabbed hold of the underneath of it. So I got dragged up the road to 100 meters

and my arm got caught under the back wheels and taken off.

On top of losing his arm, Jim's lungs were punctured and his liver was split in two.

He told me that the next six weeks were a blur.

He was in a coma, but also in a conscious state.

I'd assumed that I died and I was sort of going through between dimensions of experiencing various lives.

And although it was six weeks, it seemed like a lot longer to me.

I was experiencing things physically, by which I mean the doctors were trying to save my life.

I was basically having heart attacks like two, three times a day.

So they're kind of jump starting me like continually.

Amazingly, Jim was able to pull through

and soon he was troubleshooting how to live a one-armed life.

For most people living with a prosthetic

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